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Crawfish etouffee help
Posted on 7/27/19 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 7/27/19 at 3:58 pm
Guys. This is my first time cooking etoufee. While cooking the roux I cooked it on low heat for about 20 minutes. Roux got dark but it didn’t have any black marks in it as I babied it. When I tasted the sauce it has what I think is a charred, almost burnt taste.
Is this normal, and is there anyway I can salvage it?
Is this normal, and is there anyway I can salvage it?
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Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:03 pm to HuskyPanda
For étouffée, you should start with a butter and flour roux that isn't very dark at all.
Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:07 pm to HuskyPanda
You have a bad recipe to start with if you’re browning roux for etoufee.
Hell I usually don’t even make a roux. I’ll do a stick of butter and maybe grab a hefty pinch of flour for just a little extra but nowhere near measuring proportions for a roux.
Hell I usually don’t even make a roux. I’ll do a stick of butter and maybe grab a hefty pinch of flour for just a little extra but nowhere near measuring proportions for a roux.
Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:12 pm to Tigers0891
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Hell I usually don’t even make a roux.
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I’ll do a stick of butter and maybe grab a hefty pinch of flour
Actually you do
As stated above an etoufee starts with a blonde butter roux
Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:21 pm to HuskyPanda
Are you tasting the roux or finished etouffee and getting the bad taste?
Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:25 pm to jamboybarry
Not really. A big pinch of flour in a batch of etoufee isn’t much of a roux. I’m usually making a large pot with two sticks of butter.
Posted on 7/27/19 at 4:28 pm to patnuh
Finished etouffee is what I’m tasting. My wife thinks the charred taste might be the crawfish.
Posted on 7/27/19 at 10:11 pm to HuskyPanda
the darker the roux the more burnt it tastes
thats what a roux is after all, just toasted near burnt flour
as long as its peanut butter color its a roux and use it like that or go darker to your personal taste
some like dark rouxs and some like medium peanut butter color rouxs
thats what a roux is after all, just toasted near burnt flour
as long as its peanut butter color its a roux and use it like that or go darker to your personal taste
some like dark rouxs and some like medium peanut butter color rouxs
Posted on 7/28/19 at 9:51 am to HuskyPanda
I never liked a dark roux with Crawfish, I'm like the others just butter and a little water or stock with the trinity. I want to taste the crawfish not the roux.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:00 am to HuskyPanda
I do mine in a cast iron skillet and start with a roux made from a stick of butter and 1/3 cup of flour until it gets to a light peanut butter color.
To answer the call of the question in the OP, you ain't saving that. You gotta start over from scratch.
To answer the call of the question in the OP, you ain't saving that. You gotta start over from scratch.
This post was edited on 7/28/19 at 10:03 am
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:03 am to HuskyPanda
if i'm using roux, it's not gonna be an etoufee. it's gonna be a fricassee.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:50 am to tigerdup07
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if i'm using roux, it's not gonna be an etoufee. it's gonna be a fricassee.
Or, as I and others have said, If you make a roux, you make a stew.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 10:50 am to LSU Tiger Bob
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Or, as I and others have said, If you make a roux, you make a stew.
Posted on 7/28/19 at 1:26 pm to Tigers0891
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You have a bad recipe to start with if you’re browning roux for etoufee.
I had always started with a blond roux but last week I made a recipe that called for a pound of butter then add the trinity and cook until soft then add the flour.
To be honest I like starting with a roux better but then again maybe that is not a true etouffee.
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This post was edited on 7/28/19 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 7/28/19 at 2:39 pm to highcotton2
Here’s mine . If the pic goes through
Posted on 7/28/19 at 2:41 pm to Lago Gato
Sucks I’ve been on TD over 10 years . I’m really not a dumbarse but posting pics are a bitch
Posted on 7/28/19 at 3:16 pm to Lago Gato
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Here’s mine . If the pic goes through
Posted on 7/28/19 at 3:16 pm to Lago Gato
Looks good to me.
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Posted on 7/28/19 at 3:29 pm to highcotton2
I can’t believe it , thanks it’s a first
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