Going to try crawfish... help.

Sure doesn't sound like a cajun name. Guess I'll look on you tube.

If you just want to do the simple way. Get a 4lb bag of Louisiana Crab Boil. 1 lb of seasoning per 10 lbs of crawfish. A 4lb bag usually does 1 sack.

Ingredients:
Seasoning
Lemon Juice
Beer

Rinse the crawfish off with a hose.

Dump half the bag in the water.

Add a 2 to 3 beers and 1 bottle of lemon juice.

Bring water to a boil with lid on.

Drop the crawfish in and put lid on, when the water returns to a boil (steam will start coming from the pot no need to constantly check it), start the stopwatch for 3 minutes with lid on.

After 3 minutes, cut the heat and dump in the other half of seasoning bag and a sack of ice. Stir, leave lid OFF for 30 mins or until crawfish sink below water level.

There are a million different variations for ingredients.
I put in onions and garlic as well as some Zatarains liquid crab boil at the end.

You can throw in mushrooms, sausage, hot dogs, shrimp (after the 3 minute boil), chicken leg quarters for people that are allergic to crawfish and it's actually very good.

The frick. Who taught you to boil like that?

I didn't even know where to begin. Adding the onions and garlic at the end?

He has to be from Shreveport.

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The frick. Who taught you to boil like that?

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This is funny. Every time I boil crawfish, people ask me how I do it and why they are so juicy and easy to peel.

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Plus throwing in raw chicken for the people allergic to shellfish. They'll still be allergic to shellfish and now you have to throw out the water.

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Done it a thousand times and this isn't true at all.

When you boil chicken for jambalaya or gumbo, do you throw the water out or use it? Plus, when you boil stuff, it kills off everything in the boil. Just like when you have to boil water before you drink it.

The easy way:

Potatoes
Onion
Garlic
Lemons
4-5 pounds of your favorite crab boil
8oz liquid boil

Boil everything but the liquid, when potatoes are soft, dump in crawfish. When the bubbles start coming back up, cut off heat, pour in liquid boil, soak 20-30 and then taste test. Pull the basket out when the tails taste and peel right.


There really isn’t an easier way.

So, you and I said basically the same thing except I boil mine for 3 minutes after they return to a boil and I put beer in the water.

Btw, John Folse knows a thing or two about cooking and he puts beer in his crawfish.

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