Creamy Crawfish Bisque Recipes

LOUISIANA CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir chopped onion and green onion in melted butter until softened, about 5 minutes. Add crawfish tails, potato soup, mushroom soup, yellow corn, white corn, and cream cheese; cook and stir until cheese melts completely into mixture. Pour half-and-half into the pot; stir. Season with Creole seasoning, salt, and black pepper. Cook until hot, about 15 minutes.

CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• For the crawfish stock: Remove the meat from the crawfish tails and set aside. Place the shells and heads in a large stockpot. Add water to cover. Add the carrot, celery, onion, bay leaves, and thyme sprigs, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain, reserving the stock.
• For the bisque: Melt the butter in the oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the bell pepper, celery, onion, tomato, and Cajun seasoning and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in the flour and tomato paste and cook until bubbly and beginning to brown, about 2 minutes. Stir in the crawfish stock and sherry and cook until it evaporates, about 1 minute. Stir in the cream and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes, or until the soup begins to thicken.
• Use an immersion blender to puree the soup until smooth. Alternatively, use a standard blender and puree in batches. (Be sure to remove the lid cap to allow steam to escape.) Stir in the reserved crawfish meat and cook until heat through, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Divide the bisque between serving bowls and garnish with parsley, if desired.

CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot set over high heat. Crush the crawfish shells and add to the pot, cook for 15 minutes while stirring frequently.
• Add the flour to the pan and stir, then add the garlic, onions, lemongrass, celery, fennel and ginger. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 15 minutes.
• Add the rice, tomato paste, red pepper flakes, bay leaf and thyme. Stir and cook for another 5 minutes. Add the brandy and cook for several minutes while stirring. Add the stock and the cream, and stir. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to a slow simmer. Simmer for 25 minutes and then remove from the heat.
• Puree in a blender and strain through fine mesh strainer. Fold the crawfish tails into the bisque and add the lime zest, some salt and pepper and hot sauce. Serve hot.

CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• In a heavy 6 to 8 quart pot or cast-iron Dutch oven, heat oil over medium-high heat. Whisk in flour, stirring constantly until dark brown roux is achieved. Add the onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic. Sauté these vegetables until soft and translucent, 5-7 minutes. Add tomato sauce and stir. Add stock gradually, stirring well to incorporate with the vegetables and roux. Add salt, black pepper, paprika, and cayenne and stir. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. If using stuffed crawfish heads or boulettes, gently add into mixture, and simmer for another 15 minutes. Add crawfish tails, green onions and parsley, then stir, cover, simmer 5 more minutes. Adjust salt, black pepper and hot sauce to taste. Serve in a soup bowl over steamed white rice.

EASY CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Saute onions, garlic,and pepper in 2 Tabsp. of oil until clear.
• **If using shrimp, saute shrimp in skillet with garlic and butter until pink. (4-5Min.over med heat)
• Add soups and milk, stir until well incorporated.
• Add cheese and spice & cook over low heat for 30 minutes, stirring pretty frequently so cheese does not burn on bottom.
• Add corn and crawfish tails. Cover and cook on low heat another 30 minutes.

CRAWFISH & SHRIMP BISQUE

Steps:

• Combine in a very large pot and heat just to boiling and then simmer covered --
• 4 cans Cambell's cream of potato soup.
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup.
• 1 can cream of celery soup.
• 1 quart chicken broth.
• 2 tablespoons Tony Chachere's.
• Meanwhile, sautee the following vegetables in olive oil --
• 1 large white onion, chopped.
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped.
• 1 green pepper, chopped.
• 2 large stalks celery, chopped.
• 1 heaping tablespoon minced garlic.
• salt & black pepper.
• When the vegetables are soft, add to simmering pot.
• And add 6-8 cups frozen corn.
• Simmer covered for at least two hours --
• Then add --
• 2 pounds Louisiana crawfish tails with fat.
• 2 pounds fresh shrimp, peeled. If very large shrimp, cut into bite size chunks.
• Simmer covered for 15-20 minutes --
• Turn off heat and add 1 pint of 1/2 & 1/2 cream.
• Stir to heat through and serve.