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Get reeled in by this celebrity chef’s delicious recipe for shrimp cakes 

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March 26: Chef Jimmy Bradley of New York City restaurant the Red Cat visits TODAY’s kitchen with delicious seafood dishes, including shrimp cakes and remoulade.

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updated 11:28 a.m. ET March 26, 2008

Love seafood and want to try something new? Serve up celebrity chef Jimmy Bradley's flavorful and tasty recipe for shrimp cakes. After one bite, your family will be hooked.

Shrimp cakes
Jimmy Bradley

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup semolina flour, or fine yellow cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 eggs, beaten
5 ounces peeled, deveined large shrimp, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped scallions, white and green parts
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
1/4 cup Shellfish Stock or bottled clam juice
1/4 cup light-style beer, such as Pilsner
1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped jalapeño pepper, with its seeds
Canola oil, for frying
Rémoulade (recipe follows)
Lemon wedges

Rémoulade

1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup coarsely chopped capers
3 tablespoons finely diced red onion
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sliced tarragon
2 tablespoons sliced parsley
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon thinly sliced scallion
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper

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DIRECTIONS

Shrimp cakes
Put the flour, semolina flour, and baking powder in a bowl, season with salt and pepper, and stir to incorporate. Add the eggs, shrimp, scallions, red onion, stock, beer and jalapeño, and stir gently but thoroughly with a rubber spatula. (This is your dough. It can be covered and refrigerated for up to 2 days. Be sure to let it come to room temperature before frying.)

Line a cookie sheet with paper towels. Pour the oil into a heavy-bottomed pot to a depth of 4 inches and set over medium-high heat. Heat to a temperature of 350° F. Meanwhile, shape the dough into rounded-teaspoon-size cakes. Carefully lower the cakes into the oil in small batches. (Do not overcrowd, or the oil can overflow and the cakes will not cook evenly.)

Cook the cakes, stirring periodically to keep them from sticking together, and maintaining the temperature at no lower than 325° F, until the cakes are puffed, deep golden brown, and cooked through, approximately 6 minutes. Remove the cakes from the oil using a slotted spoon and transfer to the paper-towel-lined cookie sheet. Season immediately with salt.

Let the oil return to a temperature of 350° F and repeat with another batch of cakes. Continue to repeat until all of the cakes have been fried. Transfer the cakes to platter or bowl and serve with rémoulade and lemon wedges alongside.

Rémoulade
Put the mayonnaise, capers, onion, mustard, tarragon, parsley, vinegar, scallion, lemon juice, and hot sauce in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper, and stir well to incorporate. The rémoulade can be covered and refrigerated for 2 to 3 days. Try to make it at least a day in advance, because it’s always better the next day.

TIPS

Chef's note: To make a conventional tartar sauce, a fine condiment for any of these fish-house recipes, leave out the mustard and herbs. 

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Jimmy Bradley is a chef and owner of the Red Cat and the Harrison, two restaurants located in New York City's downtown, and the author of “The Red Cat Cookbook.”




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