Crawfish Etouffee
Crawfish Etouffee

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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 recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook crawfish etouffee using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Crawfish Etouffee:
  1. Make ready 1 lb crawfish tail
  2. Prepare 1 cup onion, chopped
  3. Take 1 cup celery, chopped
  4. Take 1 cup green bell pepper, chopped
  5. Get 4 garlic cloves, minced
  6. Prepare 1 bunch green onions, chopped
  7. Prepare 5 tbsp butter
  8. Prepare 5 tbsp flour
  9. Prepare 2 cups shrimp or chicken stock
  10. Get 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  11. Make ready 1 cup crushed tomatoes
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp each of garlic powder, oldBay or Creole seasoning, pepper
  13. Prepare Pinch salt
  14. Take 1 tsp paprika
  15. Get 2 cups prepared white rice

Watch the instructional cooking video to learn how to make Crawfish ??touff??e. This crawfish etouffee recipe is filled with flavor and love. A longtime Lenten favorite, crawfish ??touff??e 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:
  1. In a heavy pot, add butter and flour on low heat. Whisk constantly until the roux turns a peanut butter color
  2. Add onions, bell pepper and celery. Stir about 5 min until they start to soften. Add garlic and tomatoes
  3. Slowly stir in stock, then add Worcestershire, seasonings and green onion (reserve a bit for garnish)
  4. Turn heat to medium high, once it starts to boil, cover and turn heat to low. Let cook 30 min.
  5. Add crawfish tails and let those cook about 5 min.
  6. To serve, ladle etouffee into a bowl, then a spoonful of rice and top with green onions. Enjoy!!

For a seafood etouff??e, crawfish is traditional, although shrimp can be substituted. It is a totally Etouff??e 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 ??touff??e, which is the French word for "smothered," comes from Karlos Knott of Bayou Teche Brewing in Arnaudville, La.

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