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by Chef Shawn Bell
Summary: Soft shell crab with mustard seed and lemon butter sauce, accompanied with chipotle mashed potatoes
Cooking time (duration): 20 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 2
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Ingredients
- 1 cup white wine
- 1/4 cup shallots
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 ozs. butter
- 1 oz. stone ground mustard
- 2 pre-dressed soft shell crabs
- flour, cornstarch, and salt and pepper for breading crabs.
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 cups rice flour
- 4 cups cooking oil
- 4 cups mashed potatoes
- 2 chipotle peppers
- 2 jalapeno peppers
- 3 ozs. tomato adavo sauce
- 2 cups rough cut parsley
- 1 cup Romano parmesan cheese(grated)
Instructions
- Add shallots to pan on medium heat, and then add white wine. Allow wine to cook out of pan.
- Add whipping cream after most of wine has evaporated.
- Bring to heavy boil, stirring often. After cream has cooked down a little, turn fire off pot.
- Begin adding butter to the pot, and ounce at a time.
- Add mustard to the other ingredients, and mix well.
- Put fry pan on stove on high heat with enough oil to deep fry crabs.
- Bread soft shell crabs in breading mixture, then place in buttermilk, and wet thoroughly.
- Place wet soft shell crab in rice flour, and coat evenly.
- Put crabs in pan and cook for 1 1/2 minutes on each side until golden brown.
- In bowl, add peppers and adavo sauce.
- Put mashed potatoes in plate, and put two teaspoons sauce from peppers and adavo.
- Sprinkle parsley and cheese on top of potatoes and mix well.
- Put small amount of potatoes in center of plate, and place crab in middle of potatoes.
- Drizzle herb and butter sauce over crab and mashed potatoes.
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