Shrimp Po Boy

Sometimes meat and poultry get so mundane. Whenever I can find great prices on seafood I snap them up. I've had a package of shrimp in my freezer for a couple of weeks so I decided I'd make shrimp po boys for dinner.

Ingredients:

1 pound of shrimp, deveined, without shells, uncooked

1 cup of milk

1 egg

1/2 cup hot sauce + more for drizzle 

2 TBSP Cajun seasoning 

3 tsp pepper

1 cup flour

1 cup cornmeal

Shredded lettuce

Sliced tomato

Mayonnaise

Two baguettes (click here for recipe)

Oil for frying

Combine milk, egg, hot sauce, 1 TBSP Cajun seasoning, and 1 1/2 tsp pepper in bowl. Marinate shrimp at least thirty minutes (I started it the same morning). In a separate bowl combine flour, cornmeal, remaining Cajun seasoning and remaining black pepper. Heat oil over medium heat. Dredge shrimp and fry until golden. 

Cut baguettes length-wise and slather with mayo on both sides. Top with shredded lettuce, sliced tomato, shrimp, and more hot sauce.

**I used cooked shrimp so I flash fried it to prevent overcooking the seafood by heating the oil very hot and cooking about one minute on either side just for crunch and to warm the shrimp through.