Crawfish Patrick Recipes

CRAWFISH PATRICK

Steps:

• Melt the butter then add the flour and make a light roux in a large skillet.
• Add the onion, celery and garlic and brown for five to ten minutes.
• Stir in kitchen bouquet and creole seasoning until blended then add crawfish tails.
• Slowly add the chicken broth a little bit at at time until blended, if you like a thinner sauce add more broth. Also taste for saltiness once blended add more creole seasoning or salt if you more salt and spice.
• Turn heat down to low and stir often for 20 minutes, it tends to stick a little at this point if you like a thick sauce.
• Turn off the heat, add green onions and stir then serve over rice or your favorite pasta.

CRAWFISH PATTIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine sauce ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
• In a large bowl, combine all patty ingredients except oil.
• Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
• Add spoon 1/3 cup mixture into skillet for each patty, cooking 4-5 minutes on each side or until golden brown. The patties will be very loose when you first flip them over. Use a spatula to flatten them after they are flipped, and flip again if needed until they firm up.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Serve patties topped with sauce or cocktail sauce.

CAJUN CRAWFISH PATTIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Scatter the bread crumbs on a rimmed baking sheet and bake about 5 minutes or until dry and golden; dump crumbs into a mixing bowl.
• In the container of a food processor; add the crawfish (fat too, if any) and tasso; pulse just enough times to mince the mixture (stop short of pureeing); add crawfish mixture to the mixing bowl with the breadcrumbs.
• Melt the butter in a medium skillet over medium heat.
• Stir in the onions, celery, and bell pepper; saute/stir briefly until the vegetables are soft.
• Stir in the lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, salt, and cayenne and remove from the heat.
• Scrape the mixture into the mixing bowl; also add in the egg and combine mixture.
• Form mixture into 8-12 patties, no thicker that 1/2 inch.
• The mixture will be a little fragile.
• Coat the patties with the cracker crumbs by holding each patty in your hand and sprinkling both sides with cracker crumbs.
• Refrigerate patties for about 10 minutes.
• Warm 1/4 inch of oil in a large skillet over medium heat; fry the patties 2-3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
• Drain and serve hot.

DOUG'S CRAWFISH PIE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet on medium heat, then stir in flour; cook until light brown, about 10 minutes. Add sweet onion, green pepper, celery, and green onions. Cover and simmer on low heat for about one hour, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in vegetable broth and tomato paste, and cook until it reaches a creamy consistency. Mix in crawfish tails, garlic, and parsley, then cook for about 15 minutes or until the tails are tender. Stir in salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and hot sauce.
• Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Bake the puff pastry shells for 5 to 7 minutes, or until they puff up and start to brown a little. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Pull off center tops and save. Turn oven down to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spoon mixture into puff pastry shells until slightly overfilled. Put extra filling into a pie dish and cover with the remaining puff pastry shell center tops to create 6 small pies and 1 large crawfish pie. Place pies on a baking sheet.
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until the shells are golden brown and the filling has a nice shine to it.