
This week during the Treatro7 and MadeinKitchen cooking class we learned how to make quick fish and seafood dishes. Boiled crawfish is quick, easy and delicious so this is a perfect sort of recipe to reflect fast seafood!
Serves 5
Time required 20 minutes
Difficulty level 1
Cost of ingredients 30 USD
- 5 lbs. crawfish (crayfish/crawdads), live
- 2 onions, quartered
- 2 lemons, quartered
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed but still whole
- 2 bay leaves
- 12 cups of water
- 1 tablespoon ground red pepper
- ½ tablespoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons salt
Pour the water into a large soup pot and add onions, lemons, garlic, bay leaves and salt. Bring water to a boil and add in the crawfish. Allow to cook for 5 – 10 minutes or until the color of the shells change to bright red. If wanting more spicy crawfish allow to sit in the water a few more minutes
Drain and serve warm or chilled. This goes great with corn on the cob, which can be boiled with the crawfish to make a one pot meal!
If you are looking for a way to get your crawfish, in the states you can check out Louisiana Crawfish Co. They’ll FedEx your live crawfish!
Photo by kalleboo.
7. March 2010 at 8:24 pm
Or go down to the pond and catch them. However that will take all day. But a fun day for the little ones.