Crawfish Bread Recipes

CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 °F.
• Rinse the crawfish. In a large skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for a few minutes. Add the tomatoes, Cajun seasoning and crawfish. Sauté for 1 minute. Remove from the heat.
• In a bowl, mix together the cheeses, mayonnaise and parsley. Add the tomato and crawfish mixture to the mayo mixture.
• Cut the loaf of bread in half and then cut the bread lengthwise. Spoon the mixture on the bread and bake for 10 to 15 minutes. Then broil for an additional 3 to 5 minutes. Watch closely, as not to burn. Cut the bread into individual portions.

EZ CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Slice French bread in half lengthwise and scoop out the inside of the loaf. Set aside.
• 2. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Sauté onions, bell peppers, green onions, and garlic until tender and translucent.
• 3. Blend in cajun seasoning, add cheeses and crawfish / shrimp / crab meat and blend until melted. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
• 4. Spread crawfish mixture inside the bread then put halves back together.
• 5. Wrap it in foil and bake at 350°F for 20-30 minutes.
• 6. Let the bread sit for 10-15 minutes then unwrap and cut the stuffed bread into 2 " slices and serve hot.
• 7. *Notes: An equal amount of (71-80, 81-90 count) shrimp works great in this recipe, too. *Tip: to make individual breads use pastry dough and cut into circles. Stuff half of the dough with filling and fold over to make a half-circle. Seal edges well. Bake bread according to pastry dough directions or deep fry until golden.

CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a baking sheet. In a large skillet, melt the butter with the olive oil over medium heat. Sauté the green onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic until wilted. Add the wine and the crawfish tails with their fat. Stir well and add the cream cheese. Stir until melted. Add the Creole seasoning and cook until the mixture is thickened, just a few minutes. Remove from the heat and let the flavors blend. Carefully roll out French bread dough to a thickness of ½ inch on the baking sheet. Spoon the crawfish mixture down the center of the dough, and sprinkle with the shredded cheese. Fold the dough over the mixture to make a loaf. Cut 2 small slits in the top of the dough. Place in oven and bake for about 20 minutes, or until the loaf is golden brown. Remove from oven and let sit for a few minutes before slicing into serving-size pieces.

CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat griddle to medium-high. Combine crawfish, cheese, sausage, green onion and Creole spice. Butter bread. Heap filling on unbuttered side of one bread slice, then spread it out evenly to corners. Cover with second bread slice, buttered-side up. Cook on griddle until first side is golden brown. Flip and cook until second side is golden brown and sandwich is hot all the way through. Remove and slice it up.
• Combine all ingredients thoroughly.

CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• In a large heavy skillet, melt the butter and heat it until it bubbles. Then lower the heat and add the chopped onions, bell pepper, and celery.
• Sauté the mixture until the veggies turn limp, but do not let them brown (figure that it should take about three minutes).
• Next add the wine to the seasoning base and bring it to a boil.
• Then, after about a minute, pour in the clam juice (or broth) and add to it the prepared roux, thyme, bay leaves, and garlic.
• At this point, return the mixture to a boil once again but immediately lower the heat and simmer everything together for about five minutes more or until thickened.
• Now add the crawfish tails, diced tomatoes, cream of shrimp soup, parsley, green onions, seafood seasoning, and salt (if needed).
• When everything is thoroughly combined, simmer the skillet for about 8 to 10 minutes or until you can pick up the sauce with a fork.
• All that's left to do is to slice the loaves of bread lengthwise and sprinkle each half with a thin but complete layer of cheese.
• Then place the bread onto a sheet pan and slide it under a hot broiler or toaster oven until the cheese fully melts.
• Finally, take the bread halves out of the oven, generously spoon the crawfish sauce down the center of each loaf, then top them liberally with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese.
• Return the Crawfish Bread to the oven one more time, but only until the sauce begins to bubble.
• Then slice the "breads" into appropriate individual portions and serve the pieces piping hot.
• Outstanding with a frosty "brewskie" in a tall frosted glass!

STUFFED CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• Melt 1/4 cup butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions; sauté 5 to 10 minutes or until translucent. Reduce heat to medium. Add bell pepper and garlic; sauté´ 5 to 8 minutes. Add crawfish, green onion, hot sauce, and salt and pepper; sauté 5 minutes to marry flavors. Cover and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• Roll each defrosted loaf of bread dough out on a lightly floured surface to a 20x5-inch rectangle. Cut each rectangle in half width-wise. Spoon about 1/2 cup of crawfish mixture into center of each piece; top with 1/4 cup of each type of cheese. Fold dough over and pinch edges to seal, fully enclosing filling. Cut 2-inch slits on top of filled dough for venting. Repeat with remaining dough and crawfish mixture. Place loaves on a greased baking sheet and brush tops with melted butter. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until golden.
• Cool 10 minutes. Slice and serve warm.

CRAWFISH BREAD

Steps:

• Saute crawfish tails in butter until heated through. Add cayenne and saute a minute more. Set aside and cool.
• Thaw spinach and cool as directed, thoroughly squeeze excess water out. Drain and chop artichokes. Mix spinach, artichokes, cream cheese and 1 cup of cheese until well blended. Microwave untilsmooth and creamy.
• Spread bread with alfredo sauce, then generously layer spinach dip,crawfish tails, and rest of cheese on bread.
• Bake at 350 until bread is crispy and cheese is bubbly. May need to broil the last 5 minutes to reach brownness. Sprinkle with parsley for garnish.