Cajun Popcorn Shrimp

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• ½ teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ½ teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 ½ cups milk
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 4 inches vegetable oil
• 2 pounds small shrimp (3 ¼0), peeled, or larger shrimp, peeled, deveined, and cut into ½-inch pieces
• 2 to 3 cups dry bread crumbs or fine cornmeal, as needed
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  • 4 to 6 garlic cloves, to taste
  • 2 large egg yolks, at room temperature
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • (White pepper to taste)
  • 1 cup olive oil (preferably ¾ cup refined olive oil and ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil)
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • ½ teaspoon cold water

  Sub-recipe steps

  1. Mince or mash to a paste: 4 to 6 garlic cloves, to taste
  2. Place in a bowl and whisk together with: 2 large egg yolks, at room temperature; ⅛ teaspoon salt; (White pepper to taste)
  3. Very slowly, and whisking constantly, add, as for Mayonnaise I: 1 cup olive oil (preferably ¾ cup refined olive oil and ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil)
  4. Whisk in: 1 teaspoon lemon juice; ½ teaspoon cold water