Southern Living Crawfish Dip Food

CRAWFISH DIP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large sauté pan or skillet over medium. Add bell pepper, onion, celery, garlic, jalapeño, salt, and black pepper, and cook 6 minutes. Add paprika and cayenne pepper, and cook 1 more minute.
• Place crawfish, cream cheese, Cheddar cheese, and cream in a 6-quart slow cooker. Stir in bell pepper mixture, Creole mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce. Cover and cook on HIGH 45 minutes. Reduce heat to WARM. Stir in lemon juice and parsley; serve with crackers or toasted baguette slices.

SOUTHERN LIVING CRAWFISH CORNBREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400º. Heat a 12-inch (1 1/2-inch deep) cast-iron skillet in oven for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and bell pepper; saute 5 minutes or until onion is tender. Remove from heat. Stir in jalapenos.
• Stir together milk, oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Stir in corn, cheese, onion mixture, and chopped green onion.
• Stir together cornmeal and next 5 ingredients just until blended. Stir in milk mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in crawfish. Pour into hot cast-iron skillet.
• Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Serve immediately.
• Note: To make cornbread in a baking dish, prepare recipe as directed, beginning with step 2. Pour batter into a well-greased 13 x 9-inch baking dish. Proceed with recipe as directed, increasing bake time to 50 minutes.
• Shrimp Cornbread: Substitute 1 pound raw shrimp, peeled, deveined and coarsely chopped.

HOT CRAWFISH DIP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat; add green onions and bell pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, 8 minutes or until bell pepper is tender.
• Stir in crawfish and next 3 ingredients; cook, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Stir in cream cheese until mixture is smooth and bubbly.
• Garnish with green onion slices or chopped parsley.
• Serve with toasted French bread slices.

CRAWFISH DIP

Steps:

• Sauté bell pepper, onions, celery, garlic and crawfish in butter.
• Add cream cheese, lower temperature and cover to let cream cheese melt. Add mayonnaise, salt, pepper, creole seasoning to taste. Simmer approximately 15-20 minutes.
• Add parsley if desired. Serve warm.