Southern Living Crawfish Cornbread Recipes

CRAWFISH CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Stir together cornmeal, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, beat together the eggs, onion, green pepper, pimentos, vegetable oil, Cheddar cheese, cream-style corn, jalapeno pepper, crawfish tails, seasoned salt, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder until the mixture is well combined. Pour the crawfish mixture into the cornmeal mixture, and stir together. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the cornbread is lightly golden brown, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Allow to rest for about 10 minutes before serving.

SOUTHERN LIVING CRAWFISH CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400º. Heat a 12-inch (1 1/2-inch deep) cast-iron skillet in oven for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and bell pepper; saute 5 minutes or until onion is tender. Remove from heat. Stir in jalapenos.
• Stir together milk, oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Stir in corn, cheese, onion mixture, and chopped green onion.
• Stir together cornmeal and next 5 ingredients just until blended. Stir in milk mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in crawfish. Pour into hot cast-iron skillet.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Serve immediately.
• Note: To make cornbread in a baking dish, prepare recipe as directed, beginning with step 2. Pour batter into a well-greased 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Proceed with recipe as directed, increasing bake time to 50 minutes.
• Shrimp Cornbread: Substitute 1 pound raw shrimp, peeled, deveined and coarsely chopped.

CAJUN CRAWFISH CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Combine in large bowl, cornmeal, salt and soda
• In separate bowl, beat eggs
• Add crawfish, peppers, onions, cheese, oil and corn to eggs
• Combine egg mixture with cornmeal and mix well
• Pour into a greased 12x14" baking dish and bake at 375 degrees for 55 minutes or until golden brown.