Easy Crawfish Etouffee Recipes

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.

Steps:

• In dutch oven melt butter over medium heat.
• Add onions, bell pepper, celery and garlic.
• Saute vegetables until soft, about 30 to 45 minutes.
• Add Crawfish tails and seasonings.
• Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Add the mushroom sauce, let it simmer for 5 minutes.
• Add to crawfish mixture, cover and simmer for 10 more minutes.
• Serve on hot rice.

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.

Steps:

• Make the étouffée: In a large soup pot or Dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat. Add onions, poblano chile, celery and garlic and cook until softened and translucent, about 8 minutes or so.
• Lower the heat and add 1 teaspoon salt, the black pepper, the thyme and the cayenne pepper. Place the thawed crawfish meat in a bowl and set it aside in the refrigerator; use your fingers to squeeze any fat or liquid you can from their packages into the pot. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes.
• Add thawed crawfish tails and green onions to the pot and cook for 10 minutes, or until crawfish are tightly curled. Add parsley and cook 5 minutes more.
• While the vegetables simmer, prepare the rice: Place all ingredients in a saucepan with 3 1/2 cups water and bring to a boil. Stir, then turn the heat down to very low and cover. Simmer for 20 minutes, then take the pot off the heat. Let it rest, covered, for 5 minutes.
• Taste the étouffée and add salt as needed. Serve over the rice.

Steps:

• Saute onions and bell pepper in chunk of butter. Add Rotel, parsley, Worcestershire and crawfish and simmer for 10 minutes. Add cans of soup and let simmer for 15 or so minutes, stirring occasionally. Serve over rice.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat, and stir in the onion, green bell pepper, green onions, and celery; cook the vegetables, stirring frequently, until the onion is translucent and the vegetables have begun to soften, about 10 minutes. Stir in the golden mushroom soup, parsley, Cajun seasoning, salt, and black pepper, and bring the sauce to a boil.
• Gently mix in the crawfish tail meat, and simmer until the crawfish tails are opaque, 10 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• In an 8 quart stock pot over medium heat, add vegetable oil and margarine. Saute onions, green pepper and garlic until onions are translucent.
• Add crawfish to the onion mixture, and cook for 5 minutes. Add a little water to keep crawfish moist while cooking.
• Stir in soup and diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Sprinkle in parsley after about 10 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste while simmering. Water can be added to thin as desired.

Steps:

• Heat 1 teaspoon of the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Add the onion, peppers and celery, lower the heat slightly and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are soft, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stirring constantly and rapidly with a small spoon, add the flour. Continue stirring and cook the mixture until it turns a deep golden brown, about 3 minutes. Whisk in the beer and cook for 5 minutes longer.
• Stir the thyme, oregano, bay leaf, cayenne, salt and pepper into the vegetable mixture and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the beer mixture, bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the crawfish and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the cornstarch mixture and cook until thickened, about 2 minutes. Adjust the salt and pepper to taste and serve over white rice.

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.

Steps:

• In a magnalite pot or a pot with a thick bottom, saute onions and garlic in margarine over medium to medium low heat until onions are transparent. Add cream of celery and cream of shrimp soups and cook for 15 minutes over medium heat. Stir as needed to eliminate sticking.
• Stir in crawfish tails and continue to cook over medium heat. Add Creole seasoning to taste. Stir often to mix ingredients and to keep from sticking to pan. Simmer for 20-30 minutes. Thin with a little water if etouffee is too thick.
• Serve in a plate over white rice. Etouffee also freezes well.

Steps:

• Cook the rice according to the package directions.
• Melt the butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat.
• Add the onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic.
• Cook, stirring constantly, for 8 minutes.
• Combine the soup and chicken broth; add to the vegetable mixture.
• Add in the Cajun seasoning and red pepper.
• Cook for 10 minutes on medium low heat; stir occasionally.
• Add in the crawfish tails, green onion and parsley.
• Cook just until heated through, about 3 minutes, and serve over the cooked rice.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt butter. Saute onions and bell pepper. When onions are translucent, add crawfish tails and seasonings. Cover and let cook 10 minutes. Add Rotel tomatoes and let cook 5 minutes or until tomatoes are soft but not mushy. Add cream of mushroom soup and let simmer 15 minutes. Serve over rice.