The Recipe Thread [tm--CajunCook]

anyone have a restaurant style fried shrimp. i could never get the batter down. too much flour or fish fry stuff. I just want a crunchy batter. flour is bland and that corn stuff is to grainy.
Are you saying you don't want any cornmeal at all or that the recipes you have used have used too much. I use equal parts cornmeal to equal parts all-purpose flour with creole seasoning(For extra crunch use self-rising flour instead of all-purpose). I also like to toss my shrimp in Louisiana Hot Sauce and let it marinate for 5 minutes. If you want it to be srtictly flour-based try using self-rising flour with creole seasoning when you batter your shrimp. Whether you are marinating the shrimp in hot sauce or not you would then toss it in the seasoned flour/cormeal mixture or seasoned self-rising flour, then into and eggwash and the back into the seasoned flour/cormeal mixture or seasoned self-rising flour and then fry.