Best Crawfish Etouffee Recipes

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• In a large, heavy saucepan, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter and whisk in flour to combine well. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, until roux is a peanut butter color.
• Add onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic, bay leaves, and thyme and cook until vegetables are soft, about 6 to 8 minutes. Add stock, tomatoes, salt, red pepper, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a boil.
• Skim surface, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook uncovered for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add crawfish tails and fat, lemon juice, green onions, and parsley and cook for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add remaining butter and stir to combine well. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Serve over hot rice.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• In a large heavy skillet, melt butter; stir in flour. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture is a caramel-colored paste, about 20 minutes. Add the celery, pepper and onions; stir until coated. Add the broth, water, parsley, tomato paste, bay leaf, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Bring to a boil., Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Discard bay leaf. Add crawfish and heat through. Serve with rice.

LOUISIANA CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• Combine the rice and 6 cups water in a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cover, and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, until rice is tender and water has been absorbed.
• While the rice is cooking, melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, and saute until transparent. Stir in the garlic, and cook for a minute. Stir in the flour until well blended. Gradually stir in the tomato sauce and remaining 1 cup water, then add the crawfish tails and bring to a simmer. Add the green onions and season with salt, pepper, and Cajun seasoning. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes over low heat, until the crawfish is cooked but not tough. Serve over hot cooked rice.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• In a heavy bottom pan melt butter and add flour to make a roux. Stir constantly over a low heat until it takes on a beige color and loses the floury taste; about 30 minutes. When the roux is done, stir in vegetables, bacon and parsley. Add in beer, clam juice, bay leaf, seasonings and half-and-half. Stir, and cover pot. Let simmer for 30 to 45 minutes. Nearing the end of cooking time, add in precooked crawfish and serve over rice.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a Dutch oven or other large heavy pot, add the onions and bell peppers.
• Sauté over medium high heat.
• Brown well (being sure to scrape the bottom of the pot frequently to loosen any stuck particles) (You want to caramelize the onions to bring out their sweetness) (This process will take about 45 minutes).
• Reduce the heat to medium low, add the salt, peppers, crawfish fat, and water.
• Stir well and let simmer 30 minutes more (you can prepare the dish in advance to this point; about 30 minutes before serving).
• Reheat the mixture over medium heat.
• Raise the heat to medium high, stir in the crawfish and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the green onions and parsley and let cook for another 5 minutes.
• Place generous servings of hot cooked rice in the middle of large flat plates and spoon the crawfish all around.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• Make roux of flour and butter in a heavy skillet, and stir until blended.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring regularly, until dark blonde in color, about 10 minutes.
• Add chopped onion, garlic and green pepper, and cook until vegetables are almost tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add crawfish fat, and cook for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Optionally, a little water can be added to thin mixture at this point.
• Add crawfish tails, cover, and simmer for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to taste.
• Add green onion tops and parsley, and simmer for about 15 minutes.
• Serve over hot cooked rice.

CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE III

Steps:

• In a large saucepan on medium heat, saute onion until clear. Add tomato soup, mushroom soup, and canned tomatoes. Simmer for 15 minutes.
• Place the crawfish into the pan and simmer for 25 minutes.