Chef Mike’s Crawfish Boil

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Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 Servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

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Chef Mike’s Crawfish Boil

I am a huge fan of crawfish boils and have attended many...MANY...in my time in the South. I am happy to share what I consider the best recipe/process I’ve witnessed and now make myself in crawfish season from April-July. (Adjust ingredients according to the amount of CRAWFISH eaters...those who don’t care for crawfish but still attend your boil will eat all the sausage corn and potatoes!!! 😡) Oh, and don’t forget to smear the garlic on the potatoes with a squeeze of lemon or orange!! Yummmm!!

Ingredient

Food ration :

6 Servings

Cooking time :

90-120 mins

10-11 lbs

live crawfish

1 cup

Zatatans crawfish boil powder

4-5 tbs

Zatatans crawfish boil liquid

5 lbs

baby red potatoes

4 lbs

Smoked Sausage (cut into 1-2” sections as preferred)

6 ears

corn on the cob (cut in 3 pieces each)

yellow onions (peeled and halved)

garlic heads (halved...husked in tact)

oranges (halved)

lemons (halved)

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Using a burner with at least 50,000 BTUs, fill a 30 quart stock pot half full of water. (A good quality turkey fryer is usually perfect)

* Step 2

Add the Zatatans powder and liquid, onion and garlic and ignite your burner on medium-high.

* Step 3

Partially squeeze your lemons and oranges into the water mixture and drop the oranges and lemons into the pot. Bring to a rolling boil (approx 15-20 mins)

* Step 4

Reduce burner heat and add crawfish to pot. Stir. Keep at a low simmer for 15 mins.

* Step 5

5 minutes after adding crawfish, add potatoes and sausage. Stir.

* Step 6

After 10 minutes, add corn and turn off heat. Cover and let steep for 25 minutes.

* Step 7

With a hose, spray the outside of the pot to cool it down and stop the cooking process. Raise the inner strainer basket and let drain. (If you have a couple pieces of wood you can lay them over the top of the pot and sit the strainer basket on top to drain for a few minutes)