Crawfish Boil
Crawfish Boil - you don't get any more Southern than that. A delicious blend of crawfish, seasonings and vegetables mixed with good friends, get ready to fall in love with this crawfish boil recipe.
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Ingredients
- 1 sack +/-40lbLive crawfish
- 3 lb Red Potatoes
- 3 lb Onions
- 6 Bulbs Garlic
- 3 lb Carrots
- 3 lb Whole Corn
- 16 oz Whole Mushrooms
- 3 lb Smoked Sausage
- 10 cups Zatarains Crab Boil Seasoning
- 8 oz bottle Zatarains Lemon shrimp & crab boil
- 8 oz bottle Zatarains Garlic & onion shrimp & crab boil
- 2 Whole Oranges halved
- 2 Whole Lemons halved
Instructions
- Soak live crawfish in fresh cool water for about ½ hour, removing dead crawfish. Drain and soak again for a further ½ hour.
- Bring large pot of water to boil.
- While crawfish are soaking prepare vegetables - chop carrots into long pieces. Cut onions in half. Chop sausage into long pieces.
- Add 2 cups of crab boil to water.
- Put potatoes, garlic, onions, carrots and sausage into basket and drop into the water. Boil for 10 minutes. Add corn and mushrooms and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Take vegetables out and put into ice chest to keep warm.
- Add another 8 cups of crab boil to the water and the two bottles of liquid crab boil, to boil the crawfish in.
- Dump crawfish into basket (that the veggies were in) and when the water is back boiling drop the crawfish.
- Cook crawfish for 4 minutes (timed once the water gets to boiling point again).
- Turn off heat and allow crawfish to soak in the pot for a further 10 minutes.
- Remove crawfish.
- Serve immediately with vegetables and seafood dip.
Notes
It takes about 7 pounds of live crawfish to produce 1 pound of peeled tails.
You do have to be concerned about cholesterol. Crawfish tend to be higher in cholesterol than most other shellfish. And what you put in the pot can add to the mix.
Nutritional information below does not include the vegetables.
Add some Cayenne Pepper to make it even hotter! Use Andouille Sausage too.
Don't forget that roll of paper towels. You're going to need it.
See video below on How To Peel Crawfish:
Nutrition
Serving: 1bls | Calories: 1463kcal | Carbohydrates: 154g | Protein: 66g | Fat: 70g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 37g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 274mg | Sodium: 3210mg | Fiber: 24g | Sugar: 42g
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