Cream Of Mirliton Crawfish Soup Food

CRAWFISH MIRLITON (CHAYOTE) SOUP

Steps:

• Stir dried herbs into broth and set aside.
• Saute crawfish tails in butter until warm and cooked through.
• Drain butter and crawfish juice into a pot. Set crawfish aside for later.
• Add onions, garlic, cayenne, and crab boil to butter and cook over low heat until onions are soft.
• Add mirliton and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Pour broth into pot, cover, and simmer over low heat. 25 minutes for peeled mirliton, and 30 for unpeeled.
• Use a food processor or blender to puree soup.
• Return soup to low heat, and gradually add in crawfish tails. Stir until tails are brought up to the soup's temperature.

CREAM OF MIRLITON & CRAWFISH SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Peel mirlitons like you would peel a potato. Cut in half and remove the seed pod.
• 2. Slice into 1 inch cubes. Put into microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 12 to 15 minutes or until soft.
• 3. Puree in blender or food processor
• 4. Melt butter or margarine in a soup pot and saute all vegetables until soft. Add bay leaf and mirliton puree, cooking until most of the liquid evaporates.
• 5. Add 3 to 4 cups chicken broth, season to taste with salt, pepper, and cajun seasoning (Tony Chachere). Cover and cook on med heat for 45 minutes. Stirring occasionally.
• 6. Remove bay leaf, add crawfish tails and half and half. Simmer for 5 mins and serve. Hope you enjoy as much and my friends and family have.
• 7. ***If you have plenty to feed, double the recipe.

CREAM OF CRAWFISH BOIL SOUP

Steps:

• Peel the crawfish, cut the corn off the cob, and set aside with the potatoes.
• In a soup pot, saute the flour in butter, but do not brown it.
• Pour in the chicken stock all at once, stirring with a whisk until blended. Don't worry if there's a few lumps because you'll get them with a stick blender later. Bring to a simmer.
• Break up the potatoes with your fingers into the pot and add most of the crawfish tails and corn as well. Save a handful of crawfish and corn to add later. Bring the pot back up to a simmer.
• Use a stick blender to blend the soup until it is mostly smooth. BE CAREFUL not to spatter hot soup on yourself!
• Add the half and half and the remainder of the crawfish tails and corn. Stir well while heating for about five minutes more, then you're ready to serve.

TINA'S CREAM OF MIRLITON AND SHRIMP SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Steam mirliton until tender, peel and scrape flesh off pit. Puree until smooth. Reserve
• 2. Sauté onion in butter until translucent. Add 3 cloves of minced garlic. Sauté a few more minutes
• 3. Add shrimp to onion, sauté 3 minutes. Add 1 minced garlic clove and sauté 1 minute. Add mirliton and Half & Half. Adjust seasonings. Heat until hot. Garnish with minced chives if desired.