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Cajun Oven Fried Vegetables
This Cajun vegetables recipe is extremely simple to make and if you like fried vegetables, you will love the simple flavor of this dish. Mushrooms, zucchini, and bell pepper are coated in a breadcrumb, egg, and Cajun seasoning mixture and baked until hot and fragrant. You can serve these hot appetizers alone or with a lime mayonnaise or garlic mayonnaise for dipping. A salsa would also be a good dip for these easy party appetizers.
This is not one of the most fancy appetizer recipes but you can serve the crumb-coated vegetables on a tray with a small bowl of garlic mayonnaise in the middle. Make sure they cool down for ten minutes before serving. As with all hot appetizer recipes, people can burn their mouths if you forget this. Cajun vegetables taste best warm instead of hot anyway.
These Cajun vegetables make brilliant party appetizers and you could even try making this with other types of vegetables. If you want to use dense vegetables like potatoes or yams, parboil them first. Fried vegetables make a delicious appetizer, no matter what the main course is going to be. This recipe is so simple to make and you can even try imitation crab instead of fried vegetables if you want to make seafood appetizers.
Mixed Fried Vegetables Cajun Style
Ingredients -
8 oz button mushrooms
2 eggs
1 red bell pepper, in ½ inch strips
1 zucchini, in ½ inch strips
½ teaspoon Cajun seasoning
1 cup unseasoned dry breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease a cookie sheet with the oil.
Beat the eggs in one bowl and combine the Cajun seasoning and breadcrumbs in another bowl.
Dip the zucchini, bell pepper and mushrooms into the egg mixture, then in to the breadcrumbs.
Arrange the vegetables on the cookie sheet, in one layer and not touching one another, then bake them for 10 minutes.
Turn them over and bake them for 10 minutes more or until the crumb coating is golden brown.
Serve warm.
(Serves 12)
