Cajun Crawfish Fettucine Recipes

CRAWFISH FETTUCCINE I

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in butter until onions are tender. Stir in flour, and cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in crawfish. Cover, and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring often.
• Stir in the processed cheese, half-and-half, Cajun seasonings, and cayenne pepper. Cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook pasta in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes, or until al dente; drain.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish. Stir noodles into crawfish mixture; pour into prepared dish, and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.

CRAWFISH FETTUCCINE II

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet and saute the green onion, green pepper, and garlic until onions are opaque. Stir in flour and cook for 7 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Add crawfish meat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Stir in the processed cheese, half and half, Cajun seasoning and tomato. Cover and simmer for another 20 minutes. Meanwhile, cook pasta.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Mix together the sauce and pasta and transfer to the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and bake for 20 minutes or until bubbly.

CRAWFISH FETTUCCINE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute the onion, red pepper, green onions and celery in butter until vegetables are crisp-tender, 5 minutes. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in flour until blended; cook and stir, 2 minutes. Add the cheese, cream, jalapeno and salt; cook and stir until mixture is thickened and cheese is melted, 10 minutes. , Meanwhile, cook fettuccine according to package directions; drain. Stir fettuccine and crawfish into the vegetable mixture. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat until heated through, 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

CAJUN CRAWFISH FETTUCINE

Steps:

• Noodles (Fasta Pasta Bowl): Use lid to measure out 4 servings of dry noodles. Break noodles in half and place into Fasta Pasta bowl. Add cold water to the #4 line. Microwave with the lid OFF for 16 minutes. After it's done cooking, place lid onto to the bowl and drain off the pasta water. Rinse with cold water for 10 seconds and drain again prior to serving. You can leave a little water with the noodles and stir occasionally to prevent noodles from sticking.
• (Or cook noodles over stove top according to the package instructions).
• In a large sauté pan or skillet, melt the butter over low heat.
• Add the garlic, seasoning, salt, and stir for 1 minute.
• Increase heat to medium.
• Add the white wine and stir for about 5 minutes - this evaporates the alcohol.
• Add the heavy cream, stirring occasionally until slightly reduced (about 5 minutes).
• Add 1/4 cup of cheese. Mix until melted. Do this 3 more times with 1/4 cup of cheese. Mix until the cheese is melted.
• Add about 1/4 of the crawfish tails, stirring to warm through (about 2-3 minutes). Do this 3 more times.
• Stir in green onions.
• Pour over pasta.

CAJUN CRAWFISH AND ANDOUILLE FETTUCCINE

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy sauce pan and saute onions, parsley, crawfish and andouille until golden brown. Stir in flour. Add cream, red pepper and salt.
• Cook over med-low heat, stirring constantly until thickened.
• Serve over fettuccine with your favorite garlic bread.