What can I do with frozen crawfish?

[Dari]

I asked my fiancee to get some crawfish from the store and she buys the frozen ones from China. I don't want to throw them away but I am dissapointed because I felt like eating crawfish boil tonight. Any recipes that can make good use of these critters would be much appreciated. TIA.

 

[queenrobot]

How about Etouffee?

 

[spidey07]

simmer in butter and herbs, mix in with mashed potatoes. Or make crabcakes with crawdads, I guess that would make it a crawcake.

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: Dari
I asked my fiancee to get some crawfish from the store and she buys the frozen ones from China. I don't want to throw them away but I am dissapointed because I felt like eating crawfish boil tonight. Any recipes that can make good use of these critters would be much appreciated. TIA.

Where do you live? Crawfish season is from mid-February through early June, doubt she could have picked up anything fresh that didn't cost the same as a lobster.

 

[Kirby]

Frozen Chinese crawfish? That's bait, man.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: queenrobot
How about Etouffee?

I have to take out the meat for each crawfish? That sounds like a real pain. Anything simple?

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Frozen Chinese crawfish? That's bait, man.

 

[ElFenix]

etouffee, bisque, fried, gumbo, jambalaya, etc.

 

[Baked]

I didn't know there are any meat in a crawfish in the 1st place. I think people just wanna suck and lick gumbo flavor off the body of dead crawfish.

 

[queenrobot]

Etouffee was the only thing I could think of. I don't like crawfish especially. Perhaps you could just makes some good seafood stock for other dishes?

 

[Oil]

Etouffee, gumbo, jambalaya, etc.

 

[UglyCasanova]

It's not crawfish season so you are pretty much stuck with frozen.

You can make etouffee like others have mentioned, gumbo, jambalaya. Crawfish enchiladas are good, you can sauté the meat with some mushrooms and put in on top of some fish (broiled snapper perhaps?) and a sauce, crawfish cakes, crawfish pies (like a natchitoches meat pie but with crawfish), tons of other stuff. Just get creative with it.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: Naustica

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Frozen Chinese crawfish? That's bait, man.

more like poison, need to queue the pic of chinese people dumping milk into the water....

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: spidey07
simmer in butter and herbs

i would just stop there *shrug* and get some good bread to go with

 

[thehstrybean]

Broil em!
Russet Red Potatoes
Crawfish
Sausage
Onion
Some sort of crab broil

Broil, eat! YUM!! That's my favorite. I do a field school on this island off the coast of GA, and we do this every weekend with shrimp and crab. I'm so hungry right now!

 

[ed21x]

let thaw, steam, peal, dip in garlic-butter, and eat.

 

[lokiju]

No way would I eat anything from China.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: lokiju
No way would I eat anything from China.

What do you have against Chinese women?