Paleo Crab Cakes Benedict

Paleo Crab Cakes Benedict

Prep time: 10 min • Cook time: 15 min • Yield: 6-8 small cakes
Crab Cake Ingredients
  • 3 6-ounce cans of lump crab, drained
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons coconut milk
  • 2 tablespoons minced shallot
  • 2 teaspoons mayonnaise
  • 1 teaspoon Savory Spice Blend
  • 3 – 4 teaspoons coconut flour
  • 2 tablespoons coconut oil or ghee

Hollandaise Ingredients

  • 4 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 dash hot pepper sauce
  • ½ cup grass fed butter
  • Pinch cayenne

Additional Ingredients

  • 6 Poached Eggs
  • 6 Tomato Slices

Crab Cakes

Directions 

  1. Combine the crab, eggs, shallots, coconut milk, mayonnaise, and Savory Spice Blend in a small mixing bowl. As you form the cakes, if the mixture is too runny squeeze out some of the liquid.  Pat the cakes in a shallow bowl of coconut flour to coat well. Make the cakes any size you prefer.  Smaller cakes will be easier to flip.
  2. In a large pan over medium heat, melt enough coconut oil to create a layer about ¼-inch deep.  Gently place the cakes in pan and make sure the cakes don’t touch each other.  Allow the patties to brown on one side before flipping, and cook/brown the other side.
  3.  Serve warm or cold.

TIP: Make this recipe with either salmon or tuna. 

Hollandaise

Directions

  1. In the container of a blender, combine the egg yolks, mustard, lemon juice, cayenne and hot pepper sauce. Cover, and blend for about 5-10 seconds.
  2. Place the grass fed butter in a glass measuring cup. Heat butter in the microwave for about 1 minute, or until completely melt and hot. Set the blender on high speed, and pour the butter into the egg yolk mixture in a thin stream. It should thicken almost immediately. Keep the sauce warm until serving by placing the blender container in a pan of hot tap water. 

*Take Sliced Tomato and place over top of Crab Cake. Then add Poached Eggs on top. Finally drizzle Hollandaise to taste. May be served with Avocado.