Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, crawfish etouffee. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Crawfish Etouffee is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Crawfish Etouffee is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
This crawfish etouffee is a fun and interesting dish to serve when entertaining. For some, it's an introduction to crawfish and Cajun food. Crawfish Etouffee - a classic Louisiana dish with a buttery, rich and flavorful sauce with heaps of fresh crawfish tails and herbs and spices.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have crawfish etouffee using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Crawfish Etouffee:
- Get 1 lb crawfish tail
- Prepare 1 cup onion, chopped
- Make ready 1 cup celery, chopped
- Get 1 cup green bell pepper, chopped
- Get 4 garlic cloves, minced
- Prepare 1 bunch green onions, chopped
- Make ready 5 tbsp butter
- Get 5 tbsp flour
- Get 2 cups shrimp or chicken stock
- Take 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1 cup crushed tomatoes
- Make ready 1 tbsp each of garlic powder, oldBay or Creole seasoning, pepper
- Get Pinch salt
- Take 1 tsp paprika
- Prepare 2 cups prepared white rice
Watch the instructional cooking video to learn how to make Crawfish Étouffée. This crawfish etouffee recipe is filled with flavor and love. A longtime Lenten favorite, crawfish étouffée has inspired dozens of variations including Creole versions that add tomatoes. The smell of Crawfish Etouffee or Shrimp Etouffee (my recipe), makes me more nostalgic for Louisiana than any other dish I can think of, even above Gumbo and Red Beans.
Instructions to make Crawfish Etouffee:
- In a heavy pot, add butter and flour on low heat. Whisk constantly until the roux turns a peanut butter color
- Add onions, bell pepper and celery. Stir about 5 min until they start to soften. Add garlic and tomatoes
- Slowly stir in stock, then add Worcestershire, seasonings and green onion (reserve a bit for garnish)
- Turn heat to medium high, once it starts to boil, cover and turn heat to low. Let cook 30 min.
- Add crawfish tails and let those cook about 5 min.
- To serve, ladle etouffee into a bowl, then a spoonful of rice and top with green onions. Enjoy!!
For a seafood etouffée, crawfish is traditional, although shrimp can be substituted. It is a totally Etouffée is also always best made with freshly boiled crawfish of course, but peak crawfish season. In this luscious stew, crawfish tails are cooked with tomatoes, paprika, and cream. In a Dutch oven, add all ingredients except crawfish and green onions. This recipe for étouffée, which is the French word for "smothered," comes from Karlos Knott of Bayou Teche Brewing in Arnaudville, La.
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