Easy Crawfish Bisque Food

EASY CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Saute onions, garlic,and pepper in 2 Tabsp. of oil until clear.
• **If using shrimp, saute shrimp in skillet with garlic and butter until pink. (4-5Min.over med heat)
• Add soups and milk, stir until well incorporated.
• Add cheese and spice & cook over low heat for 30 minutes, stirring pretty frequently so cheese does not burn on bottom.
• Add corn and crawfish tails. Cover and cook on low heat another 30 minutes.

CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large soup pot set over high heat. Crush the crawfish shells and add to the pot, cook for 15 minutes while stirring frequently.
• Add the flour to the pan and stir, then add the garlic, onions, lemongrass, celery, fennel and ginger. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 15 minutes.
• Add the rice, tomato paste, red pepper flakes, bay leaf and thyme. Stir and cook for another 5 minutes. Add the brandy and cook for several minutes while stirring. Add the stock and the cream, and stir. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring the soup to a boil, then reduce the heat to a slow simmer. Simmer for 25 minutes and then remove from the heat.
• Puree in a blender and strain through fine mesh strainer. Fold the crawfish tails into the bisque and add the lime zest, some salt and pepper and hot sauce. Serve hot.

CRAWFISH AND SWEET POTATO BISQUE

Steps:

• In a large nonstick pot coated with nonstick cooking spray, heat oil, sauté onion, green pepper, celery, and garlic until tender for about 7-10 minutes.
• Stir in flour, stir one minute and add molasses, curry, chicken broth, and sweet potatoes. Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and cook 10-15 minutes and stir occasionally. Add Half & Half and crawfish, hot sauce and season to taste. Continue cooking 5 more minutes or until heated thoroughly

SEAFOOD BISQUE

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the first 8 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; add the shrimp, crab and mushrooms. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Stir in the wine, salt and pepper; cook 2-3 minutes longer. Top with onions if desired.

EASY SEAFOOD BISQUE

Steps:

• In a 3-qt. saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 20 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally.

LOUISIANA CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Cook and stir chopped onion and green onion in melted butter until softened, about 5 minutes. Add crawfish tails, potato soup, mushroom soup, yellow corn, white corn, and cream cheese; cook and stir until cheese melts completely into mixture. Pour half-and-half into the pot; stir. Season with Creole seasoning, salt, and black pepper. Cook until hot, about 15 minutes.

CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• For the crawfish stock: Remove the meat from the crawfish tails and set aside. Place the shells and heads in a large stockpot. Add water to cover. Add the carrot, celery, onion, bay leaves, and thyme sprigs, and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain, reserving the stock.
• For the bisque: Melt the butter in the oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the bell pepper, celery, onion, tomato, and Cajun seasoning and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in the flour and tomato paste and cook until bubbly and beginning to brown, about 2 minutes. Stir in the crawfish stock and sherry and cook until it evaporates, about 1 minute. Stir in the cream and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes, or until the soup begins to thicken.
• Use an immersion blender to puree the soup until smooth. Alternatively, use a standard blender and puree in batches. (Be sure to remove the lid cap to allow steam to escape.) Stir in the reserved crawfish meat and cook until heat through, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Divide the bisque between serving bowls and garnish with parsley, if desired.

PAPPADEAUX CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Boil crawfish in a large pot of water.
• Drain and cool until crawfish can be handled easily, remove tail and save shells. Refrigerate tail meat.
• Heat oil in large sauce pan or Dutch oven.
• Add crawfish shells, paprika and cayenne. Saute 5 minutes.
• Add water and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes.
• Strain liquid into another pan.
• Crush shells to remove remaining liquid and add that liquid. Discard shells.
• Return to heat and add onion, bell pepper, tomato paste, cream and tomato.
• Simmer 1 hour, stirring frequently.
• Add brandy and crawfish tail meat. Simmer 10 minutes.
• Serve hot.

ANN AND EUGENE PATOUT'S CRAWFISH BISQUE

Steps:

• Rinse crawfish; place in large pot of boiling water. Cook for one minute. Remove crawfish from water. Cool.
• Remove tail meat from crawfish: break off the ridged tail, snap in half lengthwise, lift out meat in one piece. Place tail shells in large pot. Remove black vein if it remains. Carefully remove the yellow fat from tail and body so the mud sack doesn't burst; add to pot. Snap off claws and smaller legs; place in pot. Clean out the body cavity, called the head; discard eyes. Rinse shells; place in pot.
• Add 2 cups crawfish fat to pot with 3 quarts water; simmer stock until reduced to 2 1/2 quarts, about 30 minutes.
• Chop half of the onions, green peppers and celery finely.
• Melt butter in large skillet; saute finely chopped vegetables for 10 minutes, until very soft. Add 1/2 cup crawfish fat; cook 2 or 3 minutes more.
• Chop 1 pound of crawfish tails very fine. Add to skillet; simmer 3 minutes.
• Mix 1/2 teaspoon cayenne, 1/4 each teaspoon white and black pepper, salt and 5 or 6 dashes hot pepper sauce into crawfish mixture. Simmer 3 minutes. If mixture is not thick enough for stuffing, add bread crumbs.
• Add 2 tablespoons each parsley and green onion; cool and use to fill crawfish heads.
• Lightly dredge the opening of the stuffed heads in flour. Oil cookie sheet; bake heads at 350 degrees until brown, about 20 minutes. Refrigerate, if not using immediately.
• Make roux: combine oil and flour in heavy skillet; cook over very low heat, stirring occasionally. Roux will begin to color slowly, taking about 45 minutes to reach desired nut-brown color. Toward end of cooking, watch roux carefully, making sure it does not burn. Roux may be made ahead and reheated.
• To assemble dish, dice remaining onion, green pepper and celery; add to boiling stock. Return to boil. Pour a little of the stock at a time into hot roux, stirring. Return roux mixture to stockpot, bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer, uncovered for 45 minutes. Five minutes after adding roux, stir in remaining cayenne, white and black pepper, salt to taste and hot pepper sauce.
• To serve, put stuffed heads in bisque and cook for eight minutes; add remaining 1 1/4 pounds of tails (this includes approximately 1/2 pound removed from live crawfish); cook another two minutes. Adjust seasoning.
• Stir in remaining green onion and parsley. Serve over rice in individual bowls.