Crab Stuffed Tacos
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Recipe type: Fish and Seafood
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 4 Servings
 
Crab Stuffed Tacos with an Old Bay Sauce is the purest delight. It's filled with lots of sweet delectable crab meat which contains very little filler, however just enough to hold the crab cake together.
Ingredients
Crab cakes or balls
  • 1 pound lump crab-meat
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp. mayonnaise
  • 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tbs. parsley, minced
  • 2 tbsp. yellow mustard or Dijon
  • 1tbsp. butter, melted
  • 1 tsp. lemon juice
  • ½ tsp. Old Bay Seasoning
  • ½ cup Ritz crackers, crumbled or crackers (crumbled)
Old Bay Crab Sauce
  • 1 tsp. Old Bay Seasoning
  • 1 tbsp. mustard
  • 2 tsp. lemon juice
  • ½ tsp. smoked paprika
  • 1 tbsp. ketchup
  • 1 tsp. horseradish (optional)
  • 2 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 tsp. hot sauce
Taco Shells
  • 4 flour or corn tortillas
  • 1 tbsp. Old Bay Seasoning to season the shells
  • Vegetable oil for frying tortilla shells
Instructions
Crab cakes or balls
  1. First, in a medium bowl, whisk together egg, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, mustard, melted butter, lemon juice, and Old Bay Seasoning. Next, add the crumbled Ritz cracker to the bowl and stir.
  2. Next, pick through the crab-meat and remove any shell pieces. Add the crab-meat to the mixture now, gently fold the mixture together just until combined. For this reason, this keeps the crab in lump form.
  3. Now, cover and refrigerate the crab mixture for 30 minutes to help keep the crab shape.
  4. Next, form the crab mixture into 12 medium size cakes or balls. Then preheat the air fryer to 360 degrees for 8 minutes. Now, lightly spray the bottom of the fryer to prevent sticking. Place 6 of the 12 crab balls evenly spaced in an air fryer. Cook the crab balls for 10 minutes however, stop the fryer after 5 minutes to turn each of the crab balls. Finally, resume cooking for the last 5 minutes.
Old Bay Sauce
  1. Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and blend thoroughly. Refrigerate until needed. (This can be made ahead of time)
Deep-fried Taco Shells (optional) Above all, just use warm tortillas that have been heated in the microwave for 15 seconds each.
  1. However, shape tortillas into a taco shell, by cooking them in a deep-fryer until golden brown. Once removed from the fryer sprinkle the crisp taco with Old Bay Seasoning.
Assemble The Crab Cake Tacos
  1. Start by adding three crab balls into each crisp taco, top with pico de gallo, and Old Bay Sauce, and enjoy!
NOTE: Pico De Gallo (store bought)
  1. To begin with, pico de gallo is simply chopped tomato, onion, and Serrano peppers, with salt, lime juice, and cilantro. However, you decide how much you would need.
Recipe by The Crafty Boomer at https://www.thecraftyboomer.com/crab-stuffed-tacos/