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Chef Dennis’ Buffalo Shrimp Po’ Boy
It’s no secret that I love Buffalo Chicken Wings, especially with Blue Cheese Dressing! But lately I’ve been thinking that at my age it’s a heart attack on plate with extra blue cheese…..sigh. Now I know I can’t just give up those lovely coated morsels of pure delight, but perhaps I can find a way to not make them as bad for me.
As many of you know, I’ve been working with Kelapo Coconut Oil for the last few months, and I’ve been trying to cook healthier and let me tell you, It’s not easy! Between my blog, school, and my cooking classes on Chef Hangout I make way too many rich and fattening foods for my own good! So its high time, I making adjustments to my cooking style to ensure that I’m around long enough to enjoy my golden years, and thanks to Kelapo I’m doing just that!
So when I thought about my famous Buffalo Chicken Sauce I started wondering how Kelapo Coconut Oil would work instead of butter, and I figured I wouldn’t know until I tried. Guess what, I couldn’t tell the difference. It thickened up nicely, just a tad thinner than a butter sauce, but still very clingy and stable. I must have a sauce that doesn’t break, I hate it when you get wings in a restaurant and there’s a puddle of grease in the bottom of the basket……Yuk!
It’s really very simple, the reason the sauce breaks is because it gets too hot. That my friends is really the only secret to a perfect sauce.
Whether you’re making the sauce with Butter or my new found friend, Kelapo Coconut Oil, all you have to do is let it melt into a liquid state and then add your other ingredients in, using a wire whisk to bring it together. You don’t want to subject the sauce to much heat after you’ve whisked everything together. It can be warm, but overheating is the quickest way to
Doesn’t that sandwich look delicious?
end up with a separated sauce and a puddle of grease!
So now that you know the secret to my Famous Buffalo Sauce, I’m going to share my newest creation with you, A Buffalo Shrimp Po’ Boy! And the best part is I made it without butter and without using Blue Cheese dressing! Woo Hoo!! I can just feel the fat melting away!
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 35 mins
Serves: 2
Ingredients
Instructions
Buffalo Sauce
Assembly
Buffalo Shrimp Po' Boy
My sandwich was amazing! I didn’t miss the butter at all, or all of the unnecessary fat and calories of the blue cheese dressing. The Gorgonzola crumbles were the perfect addition to this sandwich (I’ve been on a Gorgonzola kick lately but feel free to use bleu cheese). And best of all I fried the shrimp in Kelapo coconut oil, so all in all this was the healthiest buffalo type dish I’ve ever had!! The Arugula was a wonderful choice of green for this sandwich, because the nutty flavor of the arugula balanced the slight coconut flavor from frying the shrimp in the coconut oil. Everything came together and any non coconut lovers would be hard pressed to know you had used coconut oil in the cooking process.
I can’t wait to try this sauce with chicken wings between cutting back the butter on the sauce and cooking them in Kelapo, I’ll have wings I won’t feel bad about eating (although I will use bleu cheese dressing for those)!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and if you don’t already use coconut oil in your cooking pick up some Kelapo and start experimenting. The more I use it, the more I see how easily adaptable it is.
Here’s to better health for all of us!
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