Crawfish Etouffee/Mcilhenny
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups onions chopped
- 1 cup green bell peppers
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 30 milliliters garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon red hot pepper sauce
- 2 tablespoons crawfish fat
- 2 pounds crawfish tails shelled
- 1/2 each lemon juiced
- 1/2 cup parsley leaves fresh
- 1/2 cup scallions, spring or green onions chopped
- 1 x rice cooked
- In a Dutch oven or large heavy pot, melt the butter and cook the onion, pepper, celery and garlic until soft, about 5 minutes.
- Add the salt, Tabasco and crawfish fat, and cook, uncovered, over medium-low heat for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the tails, lemon juice and parsley.
- Cook for another 10 to 15 minutes.
- Just before serving, add the green onions.
- For the best flavor, prepare this dish the day before.
- Remove from the fridge an hour before serving and reheat just until hot to avoid overcooking the crawfish.
- Serve over steamed white rice.
butter, onions, green bell peppers, celery, garlic, salt, red hot pepper sauce, crawfish fat, crawfish tails, lemon juiced, parsley, scallions, rice
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/crawfish-etouffee-mcilhenny-44836 (may not work)