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Use this recipe sparingly, it’s an arterie clogger! Butter, crab, and deep frying………it doesn’t get much better than that.

Ingredients:

Clarified butter    (click here)
3/4 pound Dungeness Crab
3 cups flour
Annatto Oil w/ butter instead of olive oil (aka Achiote Oil)
1/4 cup corn meal
1 1/2 cups water
3 sweet peppers
3 garlic cloves
1 tbsp. adobo seasoning
Salt and pepper
Fresh oregano and fresh cilantro

In a bowl whisk the flour, oil, corn meal, and water. Stir the crab into the batter.  Place the sweet peppers, garlic, adobo, salt, pepper, oregano, and cilantro in a mortar and pestle and grind it all down then mix it into the batter. Heat up the clarified butter to 350F then scoop in about 3 tbsp. of batter into the butter to create a fritter. Cook each fritter for 2-3 minutes on each side then place on a paper towel and let some of that delicious butter drain into the towel…..Mmmmm butter. Serve!

Enjoy,

Eric