Fried Green Tomaatoes with Shrimp Cream
From chefjeb 17 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 6
A beautiful and tasty appetizer
Ingredients
- 4 green tomatoes, sliced 1/4 inch thick shopping list
- 1 quart buttermilk shopping list
- 4 cups cornmeal shopping list
- 1/4 onion, chopped shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 4 tbs butter shopping list
- 4 tbs flour shopping list
- 3 cups heavy cream shopping list
- 1 lb shrimp or crawsfish tails shopping list
- 1 tsp louisiana hot sauce shopping list
- 1 tsp worcestershire sauce shopping list
- salt and pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Soak sliced tomatoes in buttermilk overnight
- Heat oil to 350. Take tomatoes out of butermilk and dredge in cornmeal. Fry in deep fryer until golden brown. Place tomatoes on plate and pour sauce over them.
- Sauce
- Wilt onion and garlic in butter, but do not brown. Whisk in flour and cook 5 minutes, continuosly stirring. Do not burn. Once roux is cooked, stir in cream with a whisk. Sauce should be smooth and creamy. whisk until it is. Add crawfish tails or shrimp and cook until shrimp turn pink, which will only be a few minutes. Crawfish are packaged precooked,.so only need to get hot. Season with salt, pepper, hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
The seafood sauce was awesome over grits. Next time, I'll do the tomatoes.
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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Love the idea of the seafood sauce on top of the green tomatoes... so much better then ranch dressing!
angelinaw
in St Louis loved it
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