Crawfish/shrimp etouffee (roux or not)

Is there certain recipes for oil vs butter rouxs? Or is it strictly preference

Crawfish Etouffee

Need:
2 cups chopped onion
1 cup chopped bell pepper
1 cup celery
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 cup crawfish
1 1/4 stick butter
6 Tablespoons AP Flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon Slap Ya Momma
1/4 teaspoon liquid crab boil
Chicken Stock

To Taste – cayenne pepper
Cooked rice
Chopped Green Onions


Sauté onion, bell pepper and celery in 1/2 stick of butter until tender. Add garlic and season with 1/4 teaspoon of liquid crab boil, salt, black pepper, and Slap Ya Momma. Cook until garlic is tender.
In a skillet melt 3/4 stick of butter and add 6 Tablespoons AP flour 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and cook to make a blonde roux. Add 1 cup (more or less) Chicken Stock to the blond roux to make a thick gravy. The gravy needs to be a little thicker than you want the finished etouffee.
Put the blond roux in the pan with veggie mixture. Stir well. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Add crawfish and cook until crawfish are done. If the etouffee is too thick add some chicken stock.
Season to taste with salt and cayenne pepper.

Serve over rice and garnish with chopped green onion

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Is there certain recipes for oil vs butter rouxs? Or is it strictly preference

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Usually if you're going with a dark roux you should use a high smoke point oil. If a lighter roux, butter. The milk solids in butter burn at a lower temp and are more susceptible to burn while cooking a dark roux for a long time or over high heat.

Blonde roux with butter

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just melting butter then cooking veggies

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Ok I’ll be the guy. This is how I do it and I love my recipe. Melt 2 sticks of butter and then cook 4 cups of onions, 2 cups of celery, and one cup of bell pepper in that butter for about 12 minutes to start.

Blonde roux. The Cajun Ninja has a great recipe.

Butter, roux

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I agree his looks great, but would you consider that a roux?

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Yes, albeit somewhat different. I've made his recipe three times for different people. Everyone enjoyed it.