Do you want to impress your sweetheart just like that? Well, that’s not that difficult at all. Here are two simple yet delicious seafood dinner recipes to help you get a head start.

Crab cakes serve as an excellent main course dish. It is simple to prepare and takes very little time. Read on to find out a few easy to cook crab cakes recipe that can serve as a great seafood dinner.

Crab cakes

Ingredients:

Crab meat- 2 cans

Minced garlic- 1 teaspoon

Chopped onion- 1 number

Salt- 1 teaspoon

Pepper- ½ teaspoon

Egg- 1 number

Bread crumbs- ½ cup

Vegetable oil as per requirement

Procedure:

Start by mixing the entire crab meat along with garlic, salt, egg, onion, bread crumbs and pepper in a bowl. Once the ingredients are mixed well, make small patties out of them. Put some oil in the frying pan and drop those patties into the oil to fry them. Cook the patties unless they turn brown on one side. Flip on the other side to fry the other end. Once both the sides are fried, remove them from the frying pan to serve them hot with tartar sauce. Your crab cakes are ready to be relished!

There are also various ways to make seafood dinner with crab cakes. There is another procedure:

Ingredients:

Egg- 1 number

Lemon Juice- 2 teaspoons

Worcestershire sauce- ½ teaspoon

Mayonnaise- 1 ½ cups

Mustard (dry)- ½ teaspoon

Celery seed- ¼ teaspoon

Seasoning- 2 teaspoons

Pepper- ¼ teaspoon

Salt- ¼ teaspoon

Crab meat (big piece) - 1 pound

Chopped parsley- 1 tablespoon

Bread crumbs- 1 ½ cups for coating and 2 tablespoons extra.

Procedure:

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Blend the egg in a bowl; add the lemon juice, mayonnaise and the Worcestershire sauce. Take another bowl and mix the celery seeds, dry mustard, seasoning, pepper and salt altogether. Once they are mixed, now add the dry and the wet ingredients together.

Remove the shells from the crabmeat and add the parsley with two tablespoon of bread crumbs. Mix all of these very gently so that the crab meat does not crumble.

Now add the crab mixture with the wet mixture and then blend them well. Then make 3 inch crab cakes out of this mixture. Once the crab cakes are made, coat them with the bread crumbs. Put the entire crab cakes into the refrigerator for an hour so that the crab cakes get chilled.

After an hour, bring out the crab cakes and put them on a greased cookie sheet. Bake the crab cakes for the next 20 minutes or at least until the cakes turn slight brown on the outside. Once that is done, your seafood dinner is finally ready. You can serve the crab cakes with tartar sauce or the cocktail sauce. You can also make it simpler by serving the crab cakes with a squeeze of lemon.

Now wasn't that really simple? So what are you waiting for? Impress your sweetheart with a delicious seafood dinner tonight!