Crawfish Bisque

80 minutes Prep: 30 minutes Cook: 50 minutes

459 calories per serving view nutrition facts

12 servings suggest servings

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Ingredients


gravy
1	cup	vegetable oil
2	large	onions
4	each	celery stalks
4	each	garlic cloves
2 1/2	cups	crawfish tails	ground
9	cups	water	hot
5	teaspoons	salt
2	cups	flour, all-purpose
6	each	scallions, spring or green onions
1/4	each	sweet bell pepper
10	each	parsley sprigs
1/2	each	crawfish	fat
2	teaspoons	red pepper flakes
4	teaspoons	tomato paste

Stuffing for heads
1	x	crawfish tails	rest from above
3	each	celery stalks
1/4	each	sweet bell pepper
4	each	garlic cloves
10	each	parsley sprigs
2	cups	bread crumbs
2	teaspoons	red pepper flakes
2	large	onions
6	each	scallions, spring or green onions
1	x	crawfish	rest of fat
1/4	cup	vegetable oil
2	large	eggs	beaten
4	teaspoons	salt
1	x	flour, all-purpose

Directions

Use 1 sack crawfish (about 40 lbs.)

Scald crawfish in almost boiling water for about 15 min.

Drain and cool.

Peel crawfish and save the fat in a separate bowl.

Clean abt. 200 heads to stuff.

To make gravy: Grind onions, celery bell pepper, garlic and parsley.

Make roux with oil and flour. Stir constantly until browned.

Add ground seasonings. Cook on low fire abt. 30 min.

Add tomato paste and crawfish fat.

Cook abt. 30 min more. Add hot water and let cook on low fire.

Add ground crawfish tails, add salt and pepper.

Cook on high fire abt. 20 min. Add baked crawfish heads.

Cook on low fire abt. 1 hr. More hot water may be added if too thick.

Stir carefully. Serve in soup bowls over rice.

To make stuffing for heads: Grind onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and parsley.

Fry crawfish and ground seasonings in hot cooking oil; cool.

Add cawfish fat and eggs.

Mix in bread crumbs, salt and pepper.

Stuff heads. Dip the stuffed part of head in flour and place on cookie sheet.

Bake for 20 min in 400 F. oven.

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 356g

Amount per Serving

Calories 459 50% of calories from fat

	% Daily Value*
Total Fat 25.0g	39%
Saturated Fat 4.0g	18%
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 68mg	23%
Sodium 1969mg	82%
Total Carbohydrate 46.0g	15%
Dietary Fiber 4.0g	15%
Sugars 4.0g
Protein 12.0g	25%

Vitamin A	10%		Vitamin C	40%
Calcium	11%		Iron	18%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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