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Crawfish: Best Of's Crawfish Pie

Source of Recipe

Bob Person


List of Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/3 cup minced onion
1/2 cup minced bell pepper
1/4 cup minced celery
1 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup green onion, chopped
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1/4 cup butter
1 pound crawfish tails, shelled
baked 9" pie crust


Recipe

Make a brown roux with butter and flour, mix in the minced vegetables to cool, add cream to thin, if needed. In skillet saute green onions, garlic and butter. Add crawfish tails and heat well. Sprinkle with 1 1/2 tablespoons of spice mixture. Add this to the roux, cream mixture and create consistency desired (not soupy or too thick). Pour the hot crawfish mixture into the pie crust and serve hot.


Spice Mixture:
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon thyme leaves
1/8 teaspoon basil leaves

Mix ingredients in a bowl and store in an air tight container.