Crab Cake Sauce

I with advice of others added to this with horseradish, tobacco sauce, red peppers flakes, Worcestershire sauce and garlic. My go to recipe when having crab cakes.

Crab cakes are a funny thing. In some ways, they are elegant. In others, they are beachcomber’s dining. This sauce works well in either case. We just made it to accompany crab cakes from my favorite, G&M Restaurant, Linthicum Heights, MD, to celebrate a friend’s birthday. It was a hands-down winner with everyone at the party. Now the crab is gone and we’re all trying to find other uses for the sauce.

I didn’t have the yogurt so I added more sour cream. It was very tasty and I will make it again.

I made this recipe according to the directions after discovering that, miraculously, I had all the ingredients in my fridge. It’s a new favorite – I might have to make crab cakes more often just so we can have excuse to eat this sauce! I’d been worried that the salsa would lend a not-seafoody flavor, but paired with the cayenne and lemon juice, Wow, it’s a great complement. A very welcome detour from crab cake sauce with fresh dill. It was also delicious on the side of broccoli we had..

Good, but you don’t need the yogurt or the cottage cheese. I just used mayo and sour cream and extra lemon juice and it was great. Oh yeah and I also added a tablespoon or so of old bay! Muy Bueno!

I am serving crab cakes tomorrow night at our little NYE gathering. This sauce will be perfect! I did read at least half the reviews and I too made some changes: added garlic & onion powder, a little salt, some dried dill, and a little more lemon juice. I can’t wait to taste it tomorrow when all of the flavors come together! It tastes pretty good right now! Thanks for this recipe!

I followed the recipe exactly, used hot salsa as well. – very very bland, tasted like a watered-down weak salsa. The sauce is suppose to accent or compliment the crab cake – sorry but i dont see how this was rated so high.

Awesome flavour, I halved the recipe and it still made heaps, leftovers were devoured very quickly the next day as a dip, served with corn chips – yum!

I made this sauce to accompany the “Best Ever Crab Cakes” submitted by LINDACHEK on this site. It was great! (The crab cakes were great too). It has a cool taste to it, and just a little heat. Some people have said that this sauce is bland, so if you tend to like bland foods (as we tend to), this may be the sauce for you! I didn’t have a blender, so I used a food processor and made it really smooth. This recipe did make WAY more sauce than we needed, so next time, I’ll probably cut it down to 1/4 of the recipe. Thanks for the great recipe! We will make this again and again, I’m sure!

This sauce is fantastic. The only change I made was using hot sauce instead of salsa. I served it with Crab Cakes Chiarello (also found on this site). Everyone loved it and asked me to make them again the next day.

Perfect sauce. Easy to prepare and can store in frig for a few days if you are lucky enough to have leftover crabcakes!

very spicy,but very good on crab cakes….took the leftover sauce and combined with lump crab and made crab salad….that was to die for….yum

This came out VERY delicious! It seemed to bring out the sweetness in the crab. It was also good on chips! (to use as a chip dip I would add a little bit more salsa). Thank you!

I found this recipe to be a little bland and it makes way too much. I prefer to use sauces sparingly as they should complement a dish, not smother it! If I were to use this recipe again, I would half the mayonaise and sour cream. I already omitted the yogurt. I would also increase the salsa to a half cup and double the lemon juice. Add a little salt to counter the sweetness inheirent in the other ingredients. Sometimes sauces become stronger as they set. I did not find this to be the case as the dairy based products contain the hotness. Therefore, increase the heat to taste when mixing by adding drops of hot sauce. The recipe did set-up nicely in the refrigerator.

A very nice sauce that goes well with all types of seafood. Could be improved with a herb such as tarragon, dill or fresh basil, depending on the context.

Taste is great, nice kick. Beware, this says serves 12. I’d say more like serves 30+. I prepared this with a mini crab cakes recipe (makes 25 minis) and we didn’t even use half of it (despite everyone loving it). Sauce is runny even after refrigeration. Not a big deal but next time I might try to concoct a modification to thicken it a bit.

Very delicious! The salsa made the sauce a bit spicy, and I put a little extra salsa since I like spicy food. Blending the sauce makes it so creamy! I love it!

didn’t have cottage cheese or yogurt, skipped it and added garlic powder. Good!

Loved this! My honey craves and raves about “that crab sauce you made” However, I modified it and only use sour cream, our favorite jar of salsa and creamy horseradish for kick. YUMMY!

bland – add more spices

This was very good and easy. I cut it half and still had a lot. We used left overs on tacos. That was great too!