Emerils Crawfish Pie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Roll out half of pie dough and fit into a 9-inch pie plate; chill. In a skillet melt butter, add flour and whisk into a paste. Cook roux for 5 minutes or until it begins to turn lightly golden. Add onions, pepper and celery. Cook, stirring, 4 minutes, until vegetables are tender. Add crawfish, green onions, parsley and seasoning. Cook just until heated through, about 1 minute more. Let cool slightly. Roll out remaining pie dough 1/8-inch thick. Pour filling into pie shell and top with remaining dough. Crimp edges and poke a hole in top. Bake for 40 minutes, until crust is golden and filling is bubbling hot.
• Combine all ingredients thoroughly.

Steps:

• In a large pot, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring, to make a light roux. Add the onions, celery, bell peppers, green onions, garlic, bay leaves, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring, until the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes.
• Add the sherry and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the stock and crawfish tails and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the lemon juice.
• Stir in the parsley and remove from the heat.
• Adjust the seasoning, to taste. Serve over rice, garnished with additional parsley.

Steps:

• Combine the flour, 1 teaspoon of the salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of the cayenne in a medium mixing bowl. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles a coarse, meal-like texture. Add the water, 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing gently until the mixture forms a dough. Form the dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour or up to 8 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow it to sit at room temperature for about 5 minutes. Lightly dust a work surface with flour. Roll the dough into a 12-inch round, about 1/4-inch thick. Fold the dough into fourths and unfold into a 10-inch fluted (quiche) pan. Press the dough into the bottoms and sides of the pan, using your fingers. Roll a wooden rolling pin over the pan to cut off or remove the excess dough. Prick the bottom of the crust all over with a fork. Place a piece of parchment paper over the crust and fill with pie weights or dried beans. Bake the weighted crust for 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool slightly. Remove parchment paper and pie weights.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees F.
• Melt the butter in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add the onions, bell peppers, garlic, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and 1/4 teaspoon cayenne. Saute for 3 minutes. Add the crawfish tails and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk together the cream, eggs, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, chives, and grated Parmesan. Arrange the crawfish mixture evenly into the pastry shell. Sprinkle the grated cheeses over the crawfish. Pour the cream mixture over the crawfish. Place in the oven and bake for about 30 minutes, or until the center sets and the top is golden. Remove from the oven and cool for 5 minutes, before slicing. Garnish with fresh chives and serve warm.

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:

• In large skillet over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the onions, celery, and bell peppers and saute until soft and golden, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Add in the crawfish and bay leaves.
• Reduce the heat to medium. Stirring occassionally, cook until the crawfish begin throwing off a little liquid, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Dissolve the flour in water. Add to the crawfish mixture and season with salt and cayenne. Stir until the mixture thickens, about 4 minutes.
• Add parsley and green onions and cook an additional 2 minutes.
• Remove the bay leaves and serve with rice.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over medium heat in large pan.
• Add onions, bell pepper, salt, cayenne.
• Cook for 2 minutes, stirring a few times.
• Add crawfish and stir cook for 2 minutes.
• Add green onions, garlic, and parsley and stir cook for 1 minute.
• Pour mixture into medium-size bowl and let cool for about 3 minutes.
• Add the egg and breadcrumbs and mix well.
• Set aside.
• DIRECTIONS FOR PUFF PASTRY IN OVEN:.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• mix egg and milk well for egg wash.
• Place 2 tablespoons of crawfish mixture on each pastry.
• Seal with egg wash and brush top with egg wash.
• Bake in oven for 15 minutes.
• Sprinkle lightly with Creole or Cajun seasoning.
• Serve hot.
• DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING PASTRY AND DEEP FRYING:.
• Preheat fryer.
• Sift flour, salt, baking powder into a large mixing bowl.
• Cut in shortening with pastry blender or 2 knives, until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• In small bowl, beat the egg with the milk.
• Slowly add egg mixture to flour mixture, to a thick dough.
• Divide dough into 12 equal portions.
• On lightly floured surface, roll out each dough piece into a thin round about 5 inches in diameter.
• Put about 1/4 cup crawfish mixture in center of each.
• Fold the dough over and crimp edges with fork.
• Deep fry 2 or 3 at a time till golden brown.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Sprinkle with Creole or Cajun seasoning.
• Serve hot.

Steps:

• Melt butter in skillet and saute onion green pepper, celery, salt, cayenne and white pepper until onions are golden.
• Add tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add crawfish tails and cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Dissove flour in water and add to skillet, stirring constantly until mixture thickens.
• Remove from heat and let thicken 20 to 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Pour crawfish mixture into 9-inch deep dish pie shell; top with upper crust and bake 30-40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
• Cool for 10 minutes and serve.