Crawfish Boil Recipe
Crayfish or crawfish does not matter here. I have done a lot of crawfish boils, and this is by far the best recipe I have ever used. I have refined this recipe over the years, and you will see that it uses the perfect blend of spices and ingredients to create a perfect boil recipe.
Recipe by: The Smoker King
Crawfish Preperation: (Purging)
1. Keep the sack of live Louisiana crawfish in a cool area
2. Before cooking, I poor the live crawfish into a cooler and fill the
cooler with water, covering the crawfish
3. Add about 1/2 of a box of salt, and gently stir the crawfish to dilute
the salt
3. Leave the crawfish in the water for 10 minutes or so
4. Dump the water, and rinse off the crawfish
5. They are ready to cook
Ingredients:
1. New Potatoes-24 Sm.
2. Corn-10 ( I use the frozen corn that is about 1/2 of a cob)
3. Salt (for purging only)-1/2 box
4. Veg. Oil-24 oz.
5. Dry Crab Boil 4-3oz packages.
6. Wet Crab Boil 1-16oz bottle.
7. Cayene-7oz.
8. Black Pepper-7oz.
9. Lemons-6lg.
10. White Onions-6sm.
11. Sausage-3 links
12. Lemons-12sm.
13. 30 lb. bag of live crawfish
14. 1- 80 quart pot (with strainer and lid)
15. Smaller pot for boiling sausage
Preperation:
1. Fill 80 quart pot with 10 gallons of water, and place the strainer
into the pot
2. Begin heating the water to a boil
3. When water begins to boil, add seasonings,
4. Add 8 lemons (cut in half), and whole peeled onions into the area
outside of the strainer
While you are waiting for water to boil:
1. Cut the potatoes into halves
2. Boil sausage links for 15 minutes (they will not be thoroughly cooked
yet)
3. Slice sausage to desired thickness
Cooking:
1. After the water has been boiling for 5 minutes, add potatoes and
sausage into the strainer
2. Boil for ten minutes
3. Add the corn
4. Boil for at least 5 minutes
5. Right when the potatoes and corn are done (sausage will be done too)
Add the crayfish
6. Boil for 4 minutes, turn off the heat, cover the pot, and cool down
the outside of the pot with a water hose
7. Let the boil sit for 10 minutes before eating to let the crayfish
soak up the seasonings
8. Remove the strainer with the contents of the boil, pour out the boil
onto a table covered in newspaper, and let everyone dig in.
Enjoy
Tips:
Use the rest of the lemons to wash your hands when you are done. This
is a great crawfish boil recipe, and I hope you will enjoy it.