This crunchy Bubba Gump’s copycat fried shrimp recipe will have you craving it for days. The crunchy shrimp garnished in a homemade tasty cocktail sauce will satisfy your hunger at any time of the day.
How To Make Copycat Bubba Gump’s Mama Blue’s Southern Charmed Fried Shrimp
Ingredients
- 1 lb shrimp, jumbo, peeled, tail-on, and deveined
- 1½ cups pancake mix
- 1½ cups pale ale, or wheat beer
- 1½ cups desiccated coconut, or shredded coconut
- ½ cup cake flour, sifted
- ½ tsp Cajun seasoning
- ½ tsp ground cayenne pepper
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- vegetable oil, for deep frying, roughly 5 to 8 cups
Cocktail Sauce:
- ½ cup ketchup
- ⅓ cup lemon juice
- 3 tbsp horseradish, prepared
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp hot sauce
Instructions
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Combine all your ingredients for the cocktail sauce. Cover and set aside in a chilled area for at least 10 minutes or until ready to serve.
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Preheat your oil ready for frying.
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Prepare your breading station. In one bowl, pour your coconut. In another bowl, combine your flour, cajun seasoning, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder.
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Prepare your batter by combining the pancake mix and pale ale or beer. Whisk until evenly incorporated.
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Dredge your shrimps in the flour mixture, dip in the batter, and coat with the coconut.
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Deep fry in batches until the coconut just starts to turn golden brown, no more than 5 minutes.
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Drain and place onto a plate lined with paper towels. Note that the shrimps will continue cooking while being drained, eventually turning the coconut golden brown.
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Place over newspaper for a crowd to feast on and serve with a chilled cocktail sauce!
Nutrition
- Sugar: 11g
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- Calcium: 137mg
- Calories: 461kcal
- Carbohydrates: 48g
- Cholesterol: 35mg
- Fat: 25g
- Fiber: 7g
- Iron: 2mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g
- Potassium: 503mg
- Protein: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 19g
- Sodium: 650mg
- Vitamin A: 510IU
- Vitamin C: 14mg
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