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Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup hot sauce
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1/4 cup self-rising cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons coarse ground black pepper
- 3 tablespoons salt
- 2 pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined with tails left on
- Peanut oil, for frying
Directions
Preheat oil to 375 degrees F.
Line a baking tray with paper towels and set aside. In a shallow baking dish, whisk together milk, buttermilk and hot sauce. In a separate shallow baking dish, whisk together flour, cornmeal, pepper and salt. Make sure your shrimp are dry and dredge in the dry mixture first, then wet mixture and finally the dry mixture again. Shake off excess between each dredging.
Deep-fry in batches, but do not overload the fryer. Fry for 2 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oil with a slotted spoon and drain on the paper towel lined baking tray. Serve warm.
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By dcgremillion
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on April 10, 2013
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Don Landry of Don's seafood makes the best fried shrimp of all, in Louisiana
By MIAMIMOMMI
on February 06, 2013
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Way too salty! You definitely have to modify this recpie by cutting back on the salt...but they look pretty
By jessica.simpson...
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on December 31, 2012
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This was outstanding, but needed to be modified- especially the salt, as others had said. I listened to another reviewer, and used 1/2 of dry and wet ingredients and each batter was plenty. I had 2 lbs of ex lg shrimp. I used 1 TBLSP salt, but will half that again the next time. Hot sauce is very high in salt, so that probably added to the saltiness. I didn't have peanut oil or a thermometer. Used grapeseed oil in a small fry pan, about 2 cups. Fried 6 shrimp at a time. A dozen pp, with yellow rice was plenty for dinner, along with a bowl of clam chowder. I fried about 3 minutes- since my shrimp were larger. Very tasty, light-delicious. .
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