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Blue Crab Potato And Almond Fritter With Spicy Tomato Sauce Recipe

	Grizzlybear / All my dishes 2 years ago Hope you all enjoy.....a little time consuming but WELL worth it Prep:40m Cook:30m Servings:46	Grizzlybear
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Ingredients

For crab fritters:

1 lb Lump crab-meat (picked clean of shells if any)

1 Egg

4 oz Heavy Cream

2 medium Idaho Potatoes (boiled, peeled and mashed)

1 oz Butter (melted)

1 oz Brandy

2 Tbsp Shallots (finely chopped)

1 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Grated nutmeg

1/2 tsp Grated white pepper

Coating & Cooking

Flour

2 eggs (beaten)

1 cup sliced almonds

1 cup almond flour

Spicy Tomato Sauce

2 oz Olive oil

4 oz Tomato paste

16 oz whole peeled tomatoes (canned) with juice

1 small Onion (sliced thin)

1 Garlic clove (chopped fine)

2 Shallots (chopped fine)

2 Tbsp Red wine

1/4 tsp Thyme (dried or 1 tsp fresh)

1 Bay leaf

5 Whole peppercorns

1 Small Jalapeno pepper (chopped fine)

1/4 lb Butter

Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Directions

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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Comments

sparow64 2 years ago said:
This sounds great!!!! saving this one!

linebb956 2 years ago said:
WOW... can I say that again? WOW! Saving now!

greekgirrrl 1 year, 2 months ago said:
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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