CrabCake & CrabFry /Njandu cake and NjanduFry

Today i am going to share with u guys something special. That's a seafood - Crab-cake. Crab-cake is just like the cutlet prepared with crab meat. I don't know how many of you are aware of this dish,it's a very delicious food.
During the travel we always love to have food from different restaurants.I hardly prefer seafood from outside because in restaurants they do not add that much spice as we used to do and also they do not cook as much as we do. My husband love to taste any food. He loves experience new dishes(sometimes we  could have  order another dishes(because of the new dish taste) too).
We tasted this crab cake from Fisherman-wharf (Pier 39) in San Francisco.San Fransisco is one of the beautiful place in USA (It has the tropical weather similar to Kerela). Lot many attractions are there. The Pier 39 is one of them.In the fisherman wharf there are lot of street-side food shops, especially sea-food shops (like our thattukada). One of the best demanded items are "Crab-cake" and the seafood platter..Here i am attaching the picture of SFO pier 39.Its best place to enjoy,the main attarctions are the bay aquarium,fishermanwharf,cruises,wax Museum,Sea lions,shopping and eating..if u have enough time just walk from the pier 39 to pier 48 enjoy the beautiful views as well as the shops,food  etc.
When we visited SFO as a part of experimenting new dishes my husband  tried this crab-cake.Usually he won't compel me to eat any seafood item if it is an experiment but when he tried this crab-cake he told me to try that.when i tasted i really loved that and had 2 set of crab cake..That day onwards crab-cake became one of our favorite.

When I saw the Joyful Eating Whilst Traveling event, I was trying to find a dish for this event. My hus only suggested this crab-cake ..so i decided to go with this delicious food. Google found paula deen's crab cake recipe for me. finally i prepared the crab-cake and  the result was awesome.we really enjoyed having it.. I am always thankful to my fellow bloggers because of these events (we experiment new ideas and recipes and try our best to prepare these food to get good outcome).

Here I am going to share one more  simple recipe: that's "Crab fry. Let me explain how we make the delicious crab-cake and crab fry.

Here we go with the crab cake:

Ingredients
Crab meat: 1 pound
Ritz crackers: 5 tbsp
Green Onions: 3 count
Bell Pepper: 1/2 portion of a medium size
Mayonnaise:4tbsp
egg: 1 no
Worcestershire sauce: 1 tsp
Mustard:1 tsp
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Salt: enough
Pepper Powder: 1 tsp
Chili Powder: 1 tsp
Flour : for dusting
Oil: for frying
For the Dipping sauce
Mayonnaise: 1 tbsp
Chili sauce: 1/2 tbsp
Preparation

Step1

• Chop the green onion into very small pieces(use both white and green part)
• Chop the bell pepper into thin pieces
• Crush the Ritz crackers
• If u do not have Worcestershire sauce just add 1 tsp of wine and 1 tsp of chili powder.

Step2:

• In a large bowl add all the ingredients except flour and oil.The mix should be in the consistency of cutlet mix.

Step3:

• Make oval shaped patties from the mix.dust the patties with the flour.
• Heat oil in a pan.Fry the patties until golden brown.
• Place the fried crab cakes on a kitchen tissue.
• Mix the Mayonnaise and Chili sauce in a small bowl and use this as a dipping sauce.

The delicious Crab cake is ready to serve.Have it with the dipping sauce

Cook's tip

• Do not add any water while mixing the ingredients.
• If the mix is not in the correct consistency  just add some bread slices into it.
• If u don't find the sauce replace it with 1 tbsp wine and 1tbsp pepper powder
• U can shallow fry the crab patties instead of deep frying..
• Be careful by changing the sides of the crab cake while frying
• The crab meat will be available in all grocery stores meat/seafood counter.

Sending this Crabcake to Jagruti's Joyful Eating Whilst Traveling event.

Crab Fry/Njandu Fry

We both love eating crab dishes. This Crab fry is really simple  and very delicious one too It's a very healthy seafood,good source of calcium.Let me share the preparation steps of this wonderful dish
Ingredients
Crab legs:2 nos (Try to use King Crab Legs)
Ginger: 1 medium size
Garlic:6 pods
Pearl Onion/Re Onion:10 nos/1/2 portion of a medium sized
Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp
Chili Powder: 2 tbsp
salt : to taste
Cloves: 2 nos
Cinnamon: 1 small portion
Cardamom: 1 no
Fennel seeds: 1 tsp
Pepper : 4 nos
Coriander Powder: 2 tbsp
Preparation 

• Cut the crab legs into medium size pieces (1 inch length). Just wash it with lemon juice.
• Make a nice paste of all the ingredients. Marinate the crab and keep it for 30-1 hour.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry it until done (the crab became brown in color).

The Delicious Njandu fry is ready to have..Have it with Rice

Cook's Tip

• If u r using the whole crab just cut them into  small pieces .
• Wash with lemon juice.

Strawberry Short cake(Egg less) and Strawberry Juice

Today i am going to share with you guys something special and it is nothing but "Strawberry Short cakes" ..Last post itself i told, i am going to learn the  art of  baking .ya my first experiment was this strawberry shortcake.It's a very simple one but the challenging part for me in this recipe was baking..You may think "Is it that difficult?" but i don't know whenever I tried baking some cakes or muffins one or the other problem will occur..so i gave up. But my fellow bloggers really inspired me and of course my husband too .

I got this recipe from Martha Stewart's cook book. It has a good collection of wonderful recipes. I felt this recipe is so easy and very good choice for a begginer like me. So I thought of doing this (also, I wanted to surprise my husband :)). ya really he loved the cake.

Here I am sharing one more recipe; that is a simple juice: Strawberry Juice. It was a Strawberry day for us..Anyway we really enjoyed having the cake and juice ..hope u guys will also try it.Enjoy the great art of cooking..

Preparation time : 30 minutes

Cost of the item: 1.59 usd/bag

Ingredients

Strawberry:10 nos

Sugar: 2 tbsp

All Purpose Flour: 21/2 cup

Butter: 1/2 cup

sugar : 1/2 cup

Baking Pwder: 2 tsp

Salt: 1 tsp

milk: 1 cup

Whip cream : enough

Preparation

Step1: Sweetening the Strawberries

• Cut each starwberries into 8 pieces. Toss in a bowl with the sugar. Keep it for 20 minutes or until it syrupy. 

Step2: Preheat the oven to 425F

Step3:Preparing the cake mixture

• Mix Sugar, Flour, butter, baking powder and salt.Using a mixer mix all together until the mixture resembles the coarsemeal. Add the milk and pulse it four or five times. be careful do not over mix the dough

Step4: Getting ready for baking

• Place a baking paper(wax paper) in a baking pan. Transfer the dough into the pan. With a hand-spoon just pat the dough and make a rectangle shape
• Cut the dough into 6 or 8 pieces using a knife(dust with flour).

Step5: Baking

• Bake it for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.

Step6:Preparing the cake.

• Place one biscuit in a serving plate. Layer with sweetend strawberries and whip cream and the other biscuit.

The delicious cake is ready to eat.It's a very sweet one.the whipcream and the strawberry will give a nice unique taste .Enjoy

Cook's tip

• Do not add more milk then the dough will be more sticky and it won't come out in good shape.
• Sweetend strwberries,if u keep it more time it will be more good.

Strawberry juice

Having this juice is really good for health and its very rich in vitamin c

Ingredients

Strawberry: 5 nos

Water: 1 cup

Sugar: 3 tbsp

Lemon juice: 1 tsp

Ice : 4-5 cubes(I like ice-cubes)

Preparation

In a blender add the Strawberry pieces,water,sugar and lemon juice blend well. add the ice cubes.Transfer this juice into a juice cup.The delicious juice is ready to have.enjoy the drink.

Cook's tip

• If u sweetend the strawberries it will give more taste to the juice.
• If u like, u can add some vanilla extract..
• Do not add excess water.