Vegan Crab Cakes
These cakes are seasoned with a blend of seaweed, Old Bay seasoning, and fresh green onions to capture that authentic seafood flavor. Instead of using oil, the mixture is grilled on a carbon steel griddle, creating a perfect golden-brown crust with a tender, savory inside.
Ingredients
Crab Cakes
- 1 cup Butler soy curls or hearts of palm
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 deglet dates
- 14 ounces chickpeas cooked, drained and rinsed
- ½ red bell pepper diced
- ½ sheet nori torn into small pieces
- ⅓ cup green onions diced
- ⅓ cup arrowroot flour or corn starch
- 2 tsp old bay seasoning or seafood seasoning
- 1 tbsp mustard grainy
- 1 ½ tbsp tamari low sodium
Sauce
- ½ cup cashews or firm silk tofu
- 1 deglet date
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp mustard grainy
- ¼ tsp onion powder
- ½ cup water
- 2 tsp capers or diced dill pickle
Instructions
Crab Cakes Prep
- Blend the dates with the warm water until the dates are pulverized.
- Add the Butler Soy Curls to the water mixture and let soak for an hour.
Sauce
- Add all ingredients except for the capers to a blender container and let soak while you make the crab cakes.
- Once crab cakes are finished cooking, blend sauce until smooth.
- Stir in the capers.
Crab Cakes
- Pour the chickpeas into a mixing bowl and smash thoroughly with a potato masher or fork.
- Add remaining ingredients and stir until well mixed.
- Preheat griddle or non-stick pan on medium high.
- Scoop up some of the mixture and form it into a balls with you hands and then gently press into a patty like you are making a burger patty. Mixture makes 6 patties.
- Place patties onto the griddle or non-stick pan and let cook on the first side for about 4 minutes, being sure not to move them until they are ready to be flipped.
- Flip and cook on other side for 4 minutes.
- Serve with the sauce on the side or drizzled over the top.
Nutrition
Calories: 215kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 11gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gSodium: 564mgPotassium: 398mgFiber: 6gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 411IUVitamin C: 16mgCalcium: 78mgIron: 4mg
Amazing flavors!
Want to make those crabcakes. But really, soak the Soy curls for 1 hour?
Thank you!
Yes, if you don’t soak them for at least 30 minutes the texture is dry and grainy.
Can I cook these in an air fryer? I will try regardless, but I’m looking for uses for my new air fryer.
I think they would do great in the air fryer
Is there an alternative to soy curls? They are not available everywhere. Thanks.
Hearts of Palm or well rinsed artichoke hearts.
Lovely texture for these crab cakes. Thanks for sharing this recipe
My husband loved these. However I couldn’t get them to stick together Do you have any tips.
I made cocktail sauce which I prefer to tartar sauce.
Honestly, I’m not sure what to add to get it to stick together better.
I made these into mini “crab” cakes to bring to a potluck and they were great! Thanks so much for this recipe and all the work you do.
I was also a bit worried that they wouldn’t hold together well. But, once they got cooking, they held together great!