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Soft Shell Crab with Mustard Seed and lemon butter with chipotle mashed potatoes

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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

  1. Add shallots to pan on medium heat, and then add white wine. Allow wine to cook out of pan.
  2. Add whipping cream after most of wine has evaporated.
  3. Bring to heavy boil, stirring often. After cream has cooked down a little, turn fire off pot.
  4. Begin adding butter to the pot, and ounce at a time.
  5. Add mustard to the other ingredients, and mix well.
  6. Put fry pan on stove on high heat with enough oil to deep fry crabs.
  7. Bread soft shell crabs in breading mixture, then place in buttermilk, and wet thoroughly.
  8. Place wet soft shell crab in rice flour, and coat evenly.
  9. Put crabs in pan and cook for 1 1/2 minutes on each side until golden brown.
  10. In bowl, add peppers and adavo sauce.
  11. Put mashed potatoes in plate, and put two teaspoons sauce from peppers and adavo.
  12. Sprinkle parsley and cheese on top of potatoes and mix well.
  13. Put small amount of potatoes in center of plate, and place crab in middle of potatoes.
  14. Drizzle herb and butter sauce over crab and mashed potatoes.

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