Soft-shell Po' Boy with Chipotle Tartar Sauce

Name: Soft-shell Po' Boy with Chipotle Tartar Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Creole, Cajun
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons ancho chile powder; 1 avocado, pitted, peeled, and cut into 12 slices; 59 milliliters butter, softened; 1 teaspoons garlic powder; 6 jumbos soft-shell crabs, dressed; 1 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt; 6 servings Lime wedges; 59 milliliters masa harina or all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters milk; 177 milliliters alfalfa or radish sprouts; 79 milliliters raw, hulled pumpkin seeds; 2 inches thick) slices red onion; 6 smalls romaine lettuce leaves; 6 soft-crusted hoagie rolls, split; 6 servings Chipotle Tartar Sauce; 12 slices 12 thin slices ripe tomato; 5 Tbsps vegetable oil, divided; 79 milliliters yellow cornmeal

The recipe Soft-shell Po' Boy with Chipotle Tartar Sauce could satisfy your Creole craving in around 45 minutes. One portion of this dish contains about 12g of protein, 31g of fat, and a total of 543 calories. This recipe serves 6. A mixture of jumbo soft-shell crabs, avocado, milk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious.

Instructions

Whisk milk and ancho chile and garlic powders in a shallow bowl until combined; add crabs. Cover and chill 1 hour.

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Ancho Chili Pepper

Garlic

Milk

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Whisk

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Meanwhile, brush red onion slices with 1 tablespoon oil. Grill or broil 4 minutes per side. Set aside.

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Red Onion

Cooking Oil

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Grill

Spread cut sides of rolls with butter, and grill or toast until golden brown.

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Butter

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Roll

Toast

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Grill

Combine cornmeal and next 3 ingredients in a food processor. Process until mixture resembles fine crumbs; transfer mixture to a shallow dish.

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Cornmeal

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Drain crabs, and discard milk mixture. Dredge crabs in cornmeal mixture.

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Milk

Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When oil is very hot, add half the crabs, top-side down; saut 2 to 3 minutes per side or until golden.

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Drain crabs on paper towels, then transfer to a baking sheet, and keep warm in a 200 oven. Repeat with remaining oil and crabs.

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Spread toasted sides of rolls with Chipotle Tartar Sauce. Top with a lettuce leaf, 2 slices each tomato and avocado, a grilled red onion slice, and a fried crab. Top with sprouts and a squeeze of lime.

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Lettuce Leaf

Tartar Sauce

Red Onion

Chipotle Chiles

Avocado

Sprouts

Spread

Tomato

Roll

Crab

Lime

Wine note: "When I hear that a seafood dish has a kick, I reflexively go to the fire-extinguishing quality of a German Riesling. A light, off-dry Riesling such as Dr. Loosen Riesling Kabinett ($2

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or Gunderloch Jean-Baptiste Riesling Kabinett ($1

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will tame the heat emanating from the chile and garlic powders in this preparation. These wines' mouthwatering tanginess--so admirable in a good Riesling--will refresh the palate after a mouthful of fried crab." --Mark Oldman

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Riesling

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