Blue Crab Potato and Almond Fritter with Spicy Tomato Sauce
From grizzlybear 16 years agoIngredients
- For crab fritters: shopping list
- 1 lb Lump crab-meat (picked clean of shells if any) shopping list
- 1 egg shopping list
- 4 oz heavy cream shopping list
- 2 medium idaho potatoes (boiled, peeled and mashed) shopping list
- 1 oz butter (melted) shopping list
- 1 oz brandy shopping list
- 2 Tbsp shallots (finely chopped) shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 tsp Grated nutmeg shopping list
- 1/2 tsp Grated white pepper shopping list
- Coating & Cooking shopping list
- flour shopping list
- 2 eggs (beaten) shopping list
- 1 cup sliced almonds shopping list
- 1 cup almond flour shopping list
- Spicy tomato sauce shopping list
- 2 oz olive oil shopping list
- 4 oz tomato paste shopping list
- 16 oz whole peeled tomatoes (canned) with juice shopping list
- 1 small onion (sliced thin) shopping list
- 1 garlic clove (chopped fine) shopping list
- 2 shallots (chopped fine) shopping list
- 2 Tbsp red wine shopping list
- 1/4 tsp thyme (dried or 1 tsp fresh) shopping list
- 1 Bay leaf shopping list
- 5 Whole peppercorns shopping list
- 1 Small jalapeno pepper (chopped fine) shopping list
- 1/4 lb butter shopping list
- coarse salt and freshly ground pepper to taste shopping list
How to make it
- For crab fritters:
- Combine all ingredients except crab-meat until thoroughly mixed, then fold crab-meat in attempting not to break it up too much.
- Coating & Cooking
- Set up breading station by putting flour in one pan, beaten eggs in a bowl, and almonds and almond flour together in another pan.
- Form fritters into small sausage shapes, roll in flour, then in egg was, and then roll in almond/almond flour mixture.
- Using thumb and first three fingers shape to form a cone shape.
- Pan fry in clarified butter or deep fry until golden brown.
- Spicy Tomato Sauce
- In a saucepan with olive oil, sauté onions until translucent. Add shallots, garlic, and pepper and cook 2 minutes. Add red wine and let reduce by 1/2. Add whole tomatoes, paste, thyme, bay leaf and peppercorns.
- Cook for 30 minutes. Whip in butter. Strain through fine strainer and keep hot. Season to taste with salt & pepper.
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Wow! This is amazing, griz! I wish I had seen this before the weekend, I would have loved to serve these to my friends and family at a labor Day BBQ!
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