How should I cook these crawfish that I bought?

[cjchaps]

So I bought some frozen whole crawfish 'cause they were cheap and I wanted to see what they tasted like. I took one out, and dissected it. The tale part looks edible, but the rest of the thing has guts and stuff in it. How are you supposed to cook these things?

 

[pulse8]

<< How are you supposed to cook these things? >>



With heat.


I never eat anything with a hard, protective shell on it.

 

[CStroman]

I think you're supposed to boil or steam them, like a lobster.

 

[Rallispec]

deep fry them

 

[Carbo]

Be a man. Eat 'em raw.

 

[royaldank]

Go out and get a pack of cajun hot seasoning. Powdery kind. A lot of seasoning.

Then go home and boil a big pot of water (use some oil as well). Throw in the seasoning (a lot of seasoning) and some sausage and potatoes (if you have them). Then, thow in the crawfish and let 'em boil for awhile. After they are good and hot, dump them out and eat them.

Pinch the tail where it meets the body. Break apart there. Slide the meat out of the tail (or rip it open and take meat out) and eat. Then, place mouth around open end of the head (where you ripped the tail from) and suck the head. If you have enough good seasoning, the taste from sucking the head is great.

 

[rml]

I have a friend who not only eat them raw, but eat them "live" (with shell off of course).

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

royaldank KNOWS crawdads

 

[Russ]

Use them for bait, go fishing and catch a real meal.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Nitemare]

Cajun Crawfish Jambalaya

1/4 lb Butter or margarine
1/2 c Bell pepper -- chopped
40 ml Garlic -- chopped
1 c Onion -- chopped
1/2 c Celery -- chopped
Crawfish fat
1 lb Crawfish tails
1 c Green onions -- chopped
2 tb Parsley -- chopped
Cayenne pepper
4 c Cooked rice

Saute in margarine the bell pepper, garlic, onion, and celery. Add some of the crawfish fat for flavor. Cook for about 30 minutes over a low fire. Add crawfish tails, green onions, 2 T. chopped parsley, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper , and 4 c. of cooked rice. I sometimes add a small can of stem and pieces mushrooms. Let this steam for about 5-10 minutes. Add a little margarine or water if too dry.

 

[Carbo]

<< Use them for bait, go fishing and catch a real meal. >>

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

[Nitemare]

<< Go out and get a pack of cajun hot seasoning. Powdery kind. A lot of seasoning.

Then go home and boil a big pot of water. Throw in the seasoning (a lot of seasoning) and some sausage and potatoes (if you have them). Then, thow in the crawfish and let 'em boil for awhile. After they are good and hot, dump them out and eat them.

Pinch the tail where it meets the body. Break apart there. Slide the meat out of the tail (or rip it open and take meat out) and eat. Then, place mouth around open end of the head (where you ripped the tail from) and suck the head. If you have enough good seasoning, the taste from sucking the head is great. >>



That is starting to make me so hungry...I need some cajun food...

 

[cjchaps]

The only fishing I would consider doing is in a video-game format, and even that is boring.



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<< Use them for bait, go fishing and catch a real meal. >>

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! >>

 

[cjchaps]

Making some type of Jambalaya out them sounds good, I think I will try that. I tried giving one to my dog, but she didn't want it.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Nitemare
Golden Member
good recipe for crawfish "stew" ,

 

[Peetoeng]

<< Cajun Crawfish Jambalaya
>>



YES!

 

[tigerbait]

<< frozen whole crawfish >>



you need to come down to Louisiana and get some fresh boiled crawfish... then you can see what they taste like for real.

 

[BigJohnKC]

<< Go out and get a pack of cajun hot seasoning. Powdery kind. A lot of seasoning.

Then go home and boil a big pot of water (use some oil as well). Throw in the seasoning (a lot of seasoning) and some sausage and potatoes (if you have them). Then, thow in the crawfish and let 'em boil for awhile. After they are good and hot, dump them out and eat them.

Pinch the tail where it meets the body. Break apart there. Slide the meat out of the tail (or rip it open and take meat out) and eat. Then, place mouth around open end of the head (where you ripped the tail from) and suck the head. If you have enough good seasoning, the taste from sucking the head is great. >>


I've always had them the Swedish way...instead of cokking with cajun seasoning you throw a bunch of dill into the water you boil them in and cook the same way. Very tasty - eat in the same fashion as suggested above. However - very important - you have to take shots of vodka randomly throughout the eating of them - Swedish tradition. The old swedes used to sing a song before every shot of vodka and spend the night eating crawfish and shrimp and caviar.

 

[Azraele]

I used to go visit my grandparents in the Shenendoah Valley and go walking along a stream in the mountains with my brothers and grandfather. As I'd splash through the stream, I'd occasionally reach down and snatch up a crawfish.

Crawfish for me are not food. Thay are summertime and sunshine, cold water and slime on rocks. They are those weird little critters I used to fish out of that stream and look at for a bit before putting them back.