There’s no season like crawfish season! From the kids running around playing, to the adults relaxing with a few cold drinks, to the prep work and cooking, and chowing down on the ultimate Cajun feast, there’s not much that can compare to a Crawfish Boil. If you’ve been a part of a crawfish boil, you know it’s not just about the food- it’s about the entire experience, the camaraderie, and yes, seeing who can eat the biggest stack of mud bugs.
If you’ve never been a part of a crawfish boil, they can seem intimidating! Over the years, and some beers, we’ve learned to master the crawfish experience from the Crawdaddy Kings themselves- The Alexanders. Here’s your fool proof recipe to a ragin’ Cajun crawfish boil party…
Supplies
1 large ice chest (or a few clean 5 gallon buckets)
1 Turkey broiler
Long spoon for mixin’
Ingredients
1 bag of limes
1 bag of lemons
4.5lbs of Louisiana Crawfish Boil Bag
8oz bottle of Louisiana Crawfish Oil Concentrate
6lbs of red potatoes
4 one pound bags of frozen pearl onions
2 24 count bags of frozen corn
3 two pound bags of smoked sausage
3 8oz boxes of white mushrooms
30 pounds of crawfish
Purging – Cleans the dirt, mud, and waste from the crawfish
(2-4 hours). This is a crucial step…
Set bags of crawfish on the ground and rinse for a few minutes
Empty crawfish into an ice chest or a big bucket
Fill your ice chest or bucket with enough water to cover crawfish, or you can leave the water on to continually rinse them, which works best
If you decide to not leave the water on, drain your ice chest or bucket and refill until the water stays clean
Pull out all the dead crawfish. DO NOT EAT THEM!
Cooking
Fill your cooking pot with enough water that it is going to cover your crawfish when you toss them in.
Cut lemons + limes in half. Add to pot
Add Cajun seasoning (Louisiana Crawfish boil bag & Oil Concentrate)
Bring water to a rolling boil.
Add in potatoes. Start a stopwatch.
After 11 minutes, add the smoked sausage.
Bring the water back to a boil and add your crawfish. These will cook for about 3 minutes. Once they’ve cooked 3 minutes, kill the fire. (Your stopwatch should be at about 15 minutes)
Add frozen corn, baby pearl onions, and mushroom. Push veggies down to the bottom of the pot and let soak for 15-25 minutes. The longer they soak, the spicier it’ll be!
Leaving all the water in the pot, empty the crawfish and fixin’s into an ice chest. Serve and Enjoy!
Matti Tackett
Associate Broker at Texas Ranch Sales, LLC
Matti has been an avid huntress from an early age and has recently become involved in the cattle industry. As a matter of fact, she formerly co-hosted, with her dad, the national award-winning television hunting series “The High Road with Keith Warren.” She has been a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and has worked with their Institute for Legislative Action. If Matti’s not working hard to fulfill her clients’ ranch dreams, she’s probably out hunting somewhere.
