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Blue Crab Beignets
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Blue Crab Beignets

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Blue Crab Beignets

Using the best and freshest crabmeat you can get your hands on makes all the difference in these lightly battered and totally addictive Blue Crab Beignets from La Petite Grocery, a new-school NOLA bistro.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

702
Calories
15g
Protein
28g
Fat
97g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Mascarpone 2 tbsp (28g) 120
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Chives 1 tbsp (3g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 small shallot, finely chopped
  • 6 fresh blue or other lump crabmeat, picked over
  • 1/3 mascarpone
  • 1 finely chopped fresh chives
  • Kosher salt
  • Vegetable oil (for frying; about 4 cups)
  • 1 all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cornstarch
  • 1 baking powder
  • 1/2 kosher salt plus more
  • 1 amber lager
  • A deep-fry thermometer

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By bonappetit · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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