Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Meal 2: Crabcakes and Easy Greek Salad

This is a little lighter fare, its still really good though, and its fast! Plus if you make extra crab cakes they can be easily frozen. I put ww points with these recipes. I calculated them myself soooo hopefully its accurate..its about as accurate as I can get.

Easy Feta Salad
whole thing=6 pt so divide into 6 servings and it is 1 pt
1 head romaine lettuce
1 cucumber, peeled and sliced
1 tomato, chopped
1/2 c red onion, sliced
2 tsp. feta cheese, crumbled
2 tbsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. oregano
1/2 tsp. salt

  1. combine lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion and feta into a bowl
  2. whisk together olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, and salt
  3. pour olive oil mixture over lettuce mixture and toss to coat
Crab Cakes
14 pts for 8 crab cakes, about 2 pts for 1 crab cake

2 cans crab meat, drained
3 stalks green onion, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 tbsp mayo (reduced fat)
1 tbsp mustard
1 tsp Cajun seasoning
1/2 c. crackers (reduced fat)
2/3 c. panko flakes

  1. Turn on broiler in oven
  2. Mix everything together into a bowl.
  3. Form mixture into patties and put on greased cookie sheet
  4. Put crab cakes into oven and cook both sides for 7 minutes.
See quick and easy and soo good, enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. I dont know what panko flakes are...but I want to try this recipe!

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  2. Panko are japanese breadcrumbs, usually they are by regular breadcrumbs. The difference is that the panko kind are usually are crunchier then regular breadcrumbs.

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