Ingredients for Coconut Shrimp

Video Transcript

"All right today we are going to show you how to make some coconut shrimp. I've got some 2125 sizes of fresh Gulf shrimp and I've shown you how to clean these on a previous video. So we've taken the shell and the legs off. They already had the heads off and I took a paring knife and made a slit down the back and we removed the vein. Then I cut just a little further down into the shrimp so that they would actually butterfly like so. So I've got about half dozen shrimp here and however much you need to do is all up to you; how many people you need to feed. We are going to do a three part breading process and I have shown you this as well in another video. This one is very similar but we've changed a few of the elements from the other ones. I've got some regular all purpose flour here and this will be the first actual stage these guys get dipped in. Then second when we would usually use a milk and egg wash, I am actually using some coconut milk and inside the coconut milk what I've done is I've taken some Cocoa Lopez which is a very popular cream of coconut product. It is very nice and syrupy and gooey and what I am going to do is drizzle some of this into the coconut milk so that we can amplify that coconut flavor if you will. If you don't have these two items you can simply use milk and egg if you so desire; that's fine too. We really want this coconut flavor to come through and this will help amplify that as far as that goes. This is actually a syrup that you use in a lot of bars for a Pina Colada drink so it kind of have a dual purpose there. So we drizzle that into here in our second station and our third station here we've got some sweetened coconut that we got down from the grocery store. Instead of just using just straight coconut as a final breading, I've got some Japanese styled Tanko bread crumbs here and this is just a real nice light and you've seen me cook with these before; a light bread crumb that I like to use a lot of times. I am just going to kind of sprinkle those in there and mix that by hand. This gives just a thorough coating as far as the breading is concerned on these shrimp. In case we have coconut that falls off we will have some bread crumbs there to cover the shrimp. So these are all the preparations steps and we will come back here in a little bit and show you how to actually bread the shrimp and get them ready for the fryer."