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Last Updated July 3, 2020. Published January 10, 2017 Danielle Fahrenkrug | This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.

Baked Gluten Free Crab Cakes With Spicy Greek Yogurt Aioli

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Gluten free crab cakes baked and broiled to crispy perfection! Maryland or Dungeness lump crab cakes are a favorite dish that can be easily made at home in as little as 30 minutes! Serve it up with this spicy southern Greek yogurt dipping sauce and guests will be talking about it for years to come!

Gluten Free Crab Cakes Recipe

If you happen to live by the beach you lucky to enjoy delicious fresh seafood anytime right at your fingertips. Lucky you! And if you do not live by the beach you are still lucky because this recipe is made with lump crab meat from a container. That provides one less step of disassembling shelled fish! Everyone doing a happy dance now? You just got 1 hour of extra time! Whoot, whoot!

Ingredients for crab cakes

I do not think I have ever actually had a Maryland Crab Cake. Not from Maryland anyway. I grew up in New Jersey and Virginia but Maryland was merely a neighborhood in-between! Wherever we lived, living on the east coast my mom and my sister would always order a delicious crab cake recipe at a seafood restaurants.

Although my mom is not a fan of red peppers (which this recipe calls for), she would always order without. Most traditional Manhattan crab cake recipes call for celery and that was always my mothers preference so I made this recipe optional. If you are not a red or green pepper fan, use celery. If you are a pepper fan use red finely diced red pepper or a combo with celery. Anytime we went out for seafood dinner my brother was more the pasta with shrimp and scallops kind-a-guy. I am a broiled fish or grilled ahi kinda gal with a side of vegetables. Crab cakes are a new thing which I am stocked can me made lighter with less calories!

Making crab cakes at home is a total different story than ordering out! Just make them baked not fried for healthier indulgence!

When you make crab cakes at home you can control the oil (or no oil) and the amount of calories in each crab patty. Baked crab cakes are so much better for you than fried and these only take about 30 minutes to bake in the oven!

Gluten Free Crab Cakes

My sister recently visited from out of town and her food request was seafood only! Since she is land-locked, away from their home raised fresh red meat, we had to make it happen.We made these outstanding gluten free crab cakes and had so much fun shooting the video and adding ingredients from fond memories of our favorite dishes (thank you Darlene)!

Once we baked them they needed to bit of searing or broiling to make that fried crispy texture on the outside.

Broiling these gluten free crab cakes (after they are cooked) crisps the outside but keeps the inside perfectly tender and delicious without extra oil!

Anything evolving the ocean, fishermen, boats and seafood we love! Two of our favorite family activities that the boys and I enjoy are playing at the beach or visiting the Ty Warner Sea Center. The ocean and sea makes our family feel so calm. The boys just love spotting the variety of snow crabs, hermit crabs, crayfish, star fish, lobster, shark, squid and more! They are even starting to think they are experts at marine biology telling me exactly what shark eggs look like in the ocean and every and all facts about star fish limbs growing back. Thank you boys for the marine biology lessons.

Crab cake sauce | Spicy Greek Yogurt Dip

Let's  just eat the delicious seafood with this lemony spicy dip. Ever wonder how to make the best fish sauce or dip recipe? It is quite simple with a few tweaks. Starting with questions…

What to serve with crab cakes?

  • Savory southwest sauce
  • Greek yogurt aioli (recipe in recipe card with crab cakes)
  • Delicate rosemary roasted potatoes
  • Salad!

How to make crab cake sauce:

  1. Creamy base such as mayonnaise or Greek yogurt.
  2. Acid such as lemon or vinegar.
  3. Sweets and Spice such as honey and cayenne pepper.

This crab cake sauce is wildly delicious and takes as little as 5 minutes to prepare! It is the kind of sauce that gets your tastes buds bouncing all around and finishing off with the solo flavor of crunchy crab cakes.

The base of aioli sauce is normally made with mayonnaise, lemon juice, spices, garlic salt and minced garlic. But for added protein and probiotic compounds, non fat Greek yogurt is used instead of the mayonnaise.

First whisk together Greek yogurt, lemon juice, spices & seasonings, salt, pepper, honey and vinegar. Add the melted butter and mix together until blended. The butter adds a delicious creaminess to compliment the tart Greek yogurt flavor. Once it is fully blended, let the sauce chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or more for best results.

Dips for Seafood

Then go on… “When you dip I dip you dip!”

These gluten free crab cakes will knock your socks off! They perfectly compliment this Greek yogurt aioli sauce. Bonus it is all:

    • low fat
    • gluten free
    • healthy
    • packed with protein
    • rich in omega's

Gluten Free Crab Cakes With Spicy Greek Yogurt Aioli

Gluten free crab cakes baked and broiled to crispy perfection! Maryland lump crab cakes are a favorite dish that can be easily made at home in as little as 30 minutes! Serve it up with this spicy southern Greek yogurt dipping sauce and guests will be talking about it for years to come!
4.5 from 4 votes
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Course: Appetizer, Entree, Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine: American, Seafood
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 193kcal
Author: Danielle Fahrenkrug

Ingredients

Gluten Free Crab Cakes

  • 8 ounces crab meat canned
  • 1/4 cup onion diced
  • 1/4 cup red bell pepper diced
  • 1/2 cup gluten free bread crumbs such as Panko brand
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
  • 1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 Tablespoon fresh chives or 1 teaspoon of dry chives
  • 1 Tablespoon mayonnaise
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper optional
  • sprinkle of black pepper and Himalayan salt

Spicy Greek Yogurt Aioli Sauce

  • ½ cup non-fat Greek Yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon butter melted (can use vegan butter)
  • 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 1 teaspoon white vinegar
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • ½ teaspoon paprika
  • ¼ teaspoon cumin
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ¼ teaspoon Himalayan salt
  • ¼ teaspoon dry oregano

Instructions

Spicy Greek Yogurt Aioli Sauce

  • In a small bowl whisk together Greek yogurt, lemon juice, honey, white vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, paprika, cumin, garlic powder, salt and oregano. Blend in the melted butter. Set in the refrigerator until ready to use.
  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.

Gluten Free Crab Cakes

  • In a small bowl whisk together the egg, mayonnaise and lemon juice. Set aside.
  • In a medium size bowl combine the lump crab meat, onion, red peppers, bread crumbs, parsley, mustard powder, black pepper, salt, Old Bay Seasoning, baking powder, chives and cayenne pepper. Break up the chunks of lump crab meat first or as you mix. Blend until all the ingredients are combined then add the egg and mayonnaise mixture. Combine well.
  • With a spatula section the crab cake mixture into four sections. With your hands, form each section into a patty and place on the prepared baking sheet.
  • Bake for 15 minutes then flip the crab cakes. Then bake the other side for 10-15 more minutes. Turn on the broiler and broil for 3-5 minutes or until the tops are slightly browned. Garnish with extra chives and serve with Spicy Greek Yogurt Aioli Sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 193kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 106mg | Sodium: 449mg | Potassium: 285mg | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 420IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 119mg | Iron: 0.8mg
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About Danielle Fahrenkrug

Danielle Fahrenkrug is the writer and photographer behind Delightful Mom Food. She is also a homeschooling mama who loves food, family, friends, and Jesus with a passion for wine, coffee, and cauliflower bbq pizza. Danielle is also the author for Dairy-Free Gluten-Free Baking Cookbook and Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cookbook and founder of Delightful Mom Health, a line of high quality health supplements.

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  1. Suzanne Sweeney says

    January 5, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    5 stars
    Excellent recipe! I didn’t change a thing in the ingredients or directions. I did use 1/3 measuring cup to form the cakes and I pushed them in to compress-worked great.
    I didn’t need to put under the broiler-oven browned them perfectly!

    Reply
    • Danielle Fahrenkrug says

      January 7, 2021 at 3:43 pm

      Awesome, so glad you enjoy these crab cakes and thank you for sharing how you made them!

      Reply
  2. Michelle Hale says

    December 1, 2018 at 12:26 am

    Recipe lists 1/2 tsp of baking powder but not in Instructions.

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    • Danielle | Delightful Mom Food says

      December 1, 2018 at 1:06 am

      Thank you, that is a misprint and is added in the instructions.

      Reply
  3. Karen says

    June 27, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    These look great! Mine didn’t stick together at all after mixing with the egg mixture. I think I needed double the egg and bread crumbs.

    Reply
    • Danielle @ Delightful Mom Food says

      June 29, 2017 at 6:27 pm

      Any extra water from the canned crab? Make sure to drain out all the liquid and when you are forming the patties give them a good squeeze too.

      Reply
  4. Bethany @ athletic avocado says

    January 10, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    I spend most of my summer in Maryland, so I know a good crab cake when I see one! These look amazing! Full of limbs of crabmeat with only a little bit of GF filling 🙂

    Reply

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Hi, and welcome to Delightful Mom Food! I'm Danielle, the creator of these simple, healthy, gluten-free recipes that are family friendly. Because eating healthy should be delicious and mean you can still enjoy your favorite foods! I am also the founder of Delightful Mom Health, a line of high quality natural health supplements, 3x cookbook author, and certified health and nutrition life coach.
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