Boiled Crawfish Recipes

Steps:

• Place the crawfish in a large cooler, cover with cold water and add 1 cup of the salt. Allow the crawfish to purge in the salted water for 5 to 10 minutes. (This Southern tradition is said to remove mud and impurities before cooking.) Strain the crawfish and set aside.
• Fill a 42-quart stockpot fitted with a boil basket halfway with water. Add the crab and crawfish boil seasoning and remaining cup kosher salt. Then add the sausage, corn, onions, lemon juice and rinds, garlic, butter, thyme and bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Add the potatoes and boil until just cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Carefully add the crawfish to the stockpot and cook until they're bright red, about 8 minutes. Immediately remove from the heat and add the ice to the stockpot to halt the cooking. Allow the crawfish and other ingredients to sit in the iced water for 25 to 30 minutes (the longer the crawfish sit, the more flavorful they become).
• Pull the crawfish, sausage and vegetables from the water using the boil basket. Serve over newspaper spread out on a table and sprinkle with seafood boil seasoning.

Steps:

• Fill a very large pot about 1/3 full with water. Add the garlic, bay leaves, dry and liquid crab boil seasonings, salt, pepper, oranges, lemons, artichokes, and potatoes. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to a simmer, and cook for 20 minutes.
• Stir in the corn, onions, mushrooms, and green beans; cook 15 minutes more. Stir in the sausage; cook 5 minutes more. Add the crawfish, return mixture to boil, then simmer until the crawfish shells turn bright red and the tails pull out easily, about 5 minutes. Test for doneness by peeling a crawfish. Be sure not to overcook, or crawfish will become tough.
• Drain well. Serve crawfish hot, Louisiana-style, spread over a picnic table covered with newspapers.

Steps:

• Place the peppercorns, coriander, clove, and allspice into a spice grinder and grind for 10 to 15 seconds.
• Fill a 40-quart pot with 5 gallons of water and add the freshly ground spices, salt, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, thyme, oregano, dry mustard, dill weed, and bay leaves. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat, approximately 40 minutes.
• Rinse the crawfish thoroughly in the bag in which they arrived to remove excess dirt and mud. Put the crawfish in a large container and fill with cool water. Stir to remove dirt from the crawfish. Transfer small batches of crawfish to a colander and rinse under cool running water. Pick out any debris or dead crawfish. Once all crawfish have been rinsed, discard dirty water, and return the crawfish to the container. Repeat this process 6 to 8 times, or until the water is clear.
• Once the seasoned water comes to a boil, add the potatoes, corn, garlic, and sausage. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add the crawfish, cover, and cook for 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow the pot to sit, covered, for 10 minutes. Drain well and serve immediately.

Steps:

• If you have not already done so, drink a cold beer.
• After your beer, you would normally purge the crawfish.
• This is not necessary since our crawfish come pre-purged.
• Just rinse out the crawfish with fresh water and boil.
• If you want, use the time you saved by not purging the crawfish to have another beer.
• Drink another beer.
• Give one to a friend.
• Fill the large pot half full with fresh water, place on outdoor propane cooker, and start the fire.
• Place the lid on the pot and bring water to a boil.
• Add about 1 lb of Fruge's Original Seafood Boil to water.
• Let the boiling water mix it well for a minute or so.
• Time to drink another beer.
• Send sober friend to store for more beer.
• Drop in all 8 onions (halved), the potatoes and fresh garlic.
• Let this cook, keeping an eye on the potatoes (Check for doneness by stabbing with a sharp knife or fork. If it goes in easy, it is cooked. Hint: Do not over cook potatoes, slightly under cook them because they will continue to steam and cook in ice chest. You don't want to end up with mashed potatoes) When the potatoes are almost done, add the corn and mushrooms.
• After they have cooked, lower the fire on the burner and remove the basket.
• Place the vegetables in a small clean ice chest- don't close the lid- just place foil on top.
• Time to drink another beer.
• Turn the heat up on the burner.
• Add more spice to the water.
• (About 1. 5 lbs., save one half lb. of spice for later.) Take the lemons (halved) and squeeze the juice in the water.
• Then add the lemons to the water.
• When the water comes to a boil place the crawfish into the basket and put the basket in the pot.
• (Be careful- it's very hot!) Put the lid on the pot and enjoy another beer.
• When the water comes back to a boil- keep a very close eye on this part- let it boil for 4 minutes and turn off the fire.
• Let it soak for another 3 minutes and then remove.
• Kill the boil by adding cold water or ice, not much is needed maybe a gallon or so.
• Then let the crawfish soak.
• They will sink to the bottom and fill with spicy water (JUICES).
• Get an old table and place old newspapers on top.
• Dump the basket of crawfish on top of the newspaper and sprinkle with leftover spice.
• Dump the onions, potatoes, corn and garlic on top of the crawfish.
• Now it's time to really drink beer and eat.
• The vegetables are for those guests who cannot figure out how to peel the crawfish.
• At least they won't starve.
• Tips: To hold hot crawfish for a short time (1-2 hours), you can use a styrofoam ice chest.
• Most plastic chests will melt or warp.
• Use leftover spice to experiment.
• You can always add more to the ice chest.
• Sprinkle it on, stir it up and let it steam in chest for 10 minutes.
• Then test again.