Servings (slide to adjust): servings
Calories per serving: 501kcal
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Ingredients
-- Crab Balls --
- ½ pound Imitation Crab Meat chunk style
- ½ cup Mayonaise
- 1 teaspoon dried minced onion
- 1 teaspoon Red & Green Peppers
- ½ cup Bread crumbs
- ¼ teaspoon True Lemon
- ¼ teaspoon Osark Seasoning
- 1 teaspoon capers
-- Breading --
- 1 whole Egg
- 1 cup *Flour
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- ½ teaspoon Chipotle powder
- 1 teaspoon Sunflower oil about 2 cups for frying
-- Seafood Sauce --
- ¼ cup Ketchup
- ½ teaspoon Horseradish
- 2 tablespoon Homade Chili Sauce
- ¼ teaspoon True Lemon
- ⅛ teaspoon Tabasco
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Ingredients necessary for the recipe step are in italic. Ingredient measurements may vary due to measurement tools used.
Instructions
- 1/2 pound Imitation Crab Meat chunk style, 1/2 cup Mayonaise, 1 teaspoon dried minced onion, 1 teaspoon Red & Green Peppers, 1/2 cup Bread crumbs, 1/4 teaspoon True Lemon, 1/4 teaspoon Osark Seasoning, 1 teaspoon capersMix all the crab ball ingredients together. Taste for seasoning.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, form the mixture into balls and set aside. The balls should be about 1 1/2 inches 3.81 cm.
- 1 whole Egg, 1 cup Flour, 1/2 teaspoon Chipotle powder, 1 cup panko bread crumbsGet three shallow bowls or containers and put in one flour with chipotle, one egg, and one Panko breadcrumbs. Mix the flour and chipotle nicely. Beat the egg lightly with a fork.
- Dip the balls first in the flour mixture and shake off the excess. Then dip in the egg, letting the excess drip off, then roll in the panko bread crumbs.
- Put the balls in the refrigerator, uncovered.
- 1 teaspoon Sunflower oil about 2 cups for fryingPut the oil in a deep saucepan or fryer and heat it to 380 F/ 193 C.
- 1/4 cup Ketchup, 1/2 teaspoon Horseradish, 2 tablespoon Homade Chili Sauce, 1/4 teaspoon True Lemon, 1/8 teaspoon TabascoWhile the oil is heating up, make the sauce and refrigerate it until the oil is hot enough.
- Get a rack and put some paper towels on it to absorb the grease.
- Dip two or three balls into the hot fat and let them cook until they have lightly browned about 3-4 minutes. Remove them from the fat and put them on the paper to absorb the grease,
- Serve with the sauce,
Notes
If you want, you can slice up a potato and make chips in the remaining fat.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 501kcalCarbohydrates: 68gProtein: 19gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 5gCholesterol: 93mgSodium: 1248mgFiber: 3gSugar: 12g
I am not a certified nutritionist or registered dietitian and any nutritional information on the-good-plate.com should only be used as a general guideline.