Chicken Cakes With Remoulade Sauce (Quick & Easy!)

Submitted by breezermom

"This is a delicious and quick recipe using pre-cooked chicken. Great for a weeknight dinner. Use your own pre-cooked chicken, or buy a deli-roasted chicken...both yield about 3 cups of cooked chicken. Featured in Southern Living's 40 Years of Our Best Recipes cookbook as a "Quick & Easy" recipe. From some of the reviews, I think it isn't as quick and easy as they would like :)."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 29.58 ml butter or 29.58 ml margarine
• 1 medium red bell pepper, diced
• 4 green onions, thinly sliced
• 1 garlic clove, pressed
• 709.77 ml chicken, precooked and chopped
• 236.59 ml soft breadcrumbs
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 29.58 ml mayonnaise
• 44.37 ml creole mustard, divided into 1 tbsp and 2 tbsp portions
• 9.85 ml creole seasoning, I prefer Tony Cachere's
• 59.14 ml vegetable oil
• 236.59 ml mayonnaise
• 3 green onions
• 2 garlic cloves, pressed
• 14.79 ml parsley, fresh, chopped
• 1.23 ml ground red pepper
• green onion, sliced

directions

1. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add bell pepper, 4 sliced green onions, and 1 pressed garlic clove. Saute 3 to 4 minutes until tender.
2. Stir together bell pepper mixture, chopped chicken, 1 cup soft breadcrumbs, 1 large beaten egg, 2 tbsp mayo, 1 tbsp creole mustard, and 1 tsp creole seasoning. Shape chicken mixture into 8 (3 1/2 inch) patties.
3. Fry 4 patties in 2 tbsp hot oil in a large skillet over medium heat 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Repeat process once until patties are done.

4. Remoulade Sauce:

5. Stir together 1 cup mayo, 3 sliced green onions, 2 tbsp creole mustard, 2 pressed garlic cloves, 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, and 1/4 tsp ground red pepper. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
6. Serve chicken patties topped with remoulade sauce. Garnish with sliced green onions. Enjoy!

Reviews

[vtg076]

I've been making this recipe for years and my family loves it. I have much better success with it when I reduce the amount of breadcrumbs and increase the moisture (more butter when sauteing the onions and pepper). I also add more oil with frying. It helps with the flavor. I always use a rotisserie chicken, and the sauce is a must!

 

[weekend cooker]

Good recipe. Though I am a slower chopper than average, we thought the cakes were okay, but we really enjoyed the sauce and garnishes/toppings with them. It made a nice compliment. I did have a little , and I mean little trouble though keeping these together. All in all they were nicely seasoned. Made for Zaar Stars.

 

[BelovedAimee]

I don't know if this recipe NEEDS the sauce to taste good, but I figured I'd try it without it. Just using the patty portion of this recipe did not go over well. The flavor was OK, not wonderful and the consistency was crumby and dry. It tasted like fried breadcrumbs with a tiny bit of flavor. I'm sure I did something wrong as the other reviews seem positive.

 

[mary winecoff]

The taste was awesome! I will have to say that it wasn't as easy and quick as I would like it, however I did use my food processor to chop the chicken. I added capers to the remoulade sauce but other than that I followed the recipe exactly. My boys absolutely thought this was the greatest! Made for 1-2-3 Hits.

 

[swissms]

Excellent! We really enjoyed this recipe. Wonderful flavors. I used four cooked boneless skinless chicken breast halves and shredded them in the food processor. I substituted sour cream for the mayonnaise. I accidently used 3 garlic cloves in the chicken cakes, but that was ok because we love garlic. I used Recipe #38148 and Recipe #22089. I was confused about the amount of ground red pepper in this recipe because the ingredient list shows 1 teaspoon but the directions state to use only 1/4 teaspoon in the sauce...it doesn't look like the remaining 3/4 teaspoon is called for anywhere. In any case, I only used 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper in the Remoulade sauce because my husband is heat sensitive. He loved the sauce and is currently thinking of how he can use up the remaining sauce tomorrow :-) Thank you for the recipe...we will definitely be making it again. I served it with Recipe #71739. Made for Every Day is a Holiday.