Cornbread with Hot Peppers and Crawfish Etouffee

 

My grandmother's cornbread recipe with buttermilk, bacon fat, and a blazing hot cast iron skillet. Plus 6-8 little pickled tabasco peppers. And crawfish etouffee from the freezer. Served over rice.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/cornbread-with-hot-peppers.html

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/crawfish-etouffee.html

Crawfish Etouffee 2026

 

1 pkg. crawfish tails with fat. 1 cup onion, celery, bell pepper. 3 cloves garlic. 2 cups chicken broth/stock. 1/4 cup parsley. Salt, pepper, cayenne. Roux with 1/2 cup butter, 1/3 cup flour. Once crawfish added, simmer 20 minutes.

Add parsley last ten minutes of cooking. I added too much dried parsley this time but it won't hurt anything.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/crawfish-etouffee.html

Christmas Etouffee

 

Crawfish. Now all I have to do is roll up the sausage balls and bake them and make rice. 1 lb. Hot Jimmy Dean sausage, grated sharp cheddar cheese (8-12 oz.), 2 cups Bisquick, red pepper flakes. Mix well, roll into small balls and bake 375 15-18 minutes.

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/crawfish-etouffee.html

Crawfish Etouffee 2023

 

I can make a pretty dark roux in about 12 minutes now. Used to take two beers. Etouffee not supposed to be soupy. Spilt cayenne so this version has extra chicken broth. If you spill pepper, double the liquid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89touff%C3%A9e

Crawfish Pie

 

Hot out of the oven. Onion, bell pepper, celery, garlic, heavy cream, one egg, bread crumbs, hot sauce, crawfish tails.

https://www.gumbopages.com/food/seafood/craw-pie.html

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/crawfish-pie.html

Crawfish Pie

 

During the Lenten season crawfish dishes are featured more heavily on South Louisiana menus. More expensive this year, along with everything else. Header image is from Wikimedia Commons. It is basically just a pot pie with spicy crawfish filling, and sometimes with a top crust, sometimes not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfish_pie

https://www.gumbopages.com/food/seafood/craw-pie.html

https://www.emerils.com/122002/emerils-crawfish-pie

Crawfish Bisque

 

A labor intensive but elegant Cajun/Creole dish with stuffed crawfish heads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisque_(food)

http://emerils.com/122607/crawfish-bisque

https://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/craw-bisque.html

Popeye's Cajun Crawfish

 

1988.

Etouffee

 

I got some crawfish tails the other day. Full recipe at the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89touff%C3%A9e

https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/crawfish-etouffee.html

Crawfish Etouffee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89touff%C3%A9e

https://www.gumbopages.com/food/seafood/etouffee.html

One cup each chopped - onion, celery, bell pepper

3 cloves garlic

2 cups chicken stock

3 cups crawfish tails (with fat) - 12 oz. frozen package, some are 16

1/4 cup chopped parsley

Salt, black pepper, cayenne

 First make a roux with one stick butter (1/2 cup) and 1/3 cup flour. *Note* - I had about four cups of frozen stock to use so I upped the flour ratio to a half cup. Some people like it thicker, some people want it soupier. Roux should be fairly dark. I went a few minutes past what is shown. Careful because a butter roux will burn quicker than one made with oil.\