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Ragin' Cajun Popcorn Crawfish

August 10, 2011
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  • Serves 4 to 6 as an appetizer
Author Notes

No....not popped corn, but crawdaddies, mudbugs, crayfish, crawfish, breaded in a spicy flour and corn meal mix and eaten out of hand like popcorn or with toothpicks. If you can't get crawfish tail meat, feel free to use small gulf shrimp or rock shrimp. —inpatskitchen

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 1 pound cooked crawfish tail meat, thawed if frozen, rinsed and drained
  • 2 cups buttermilk
  • 1 tablespoon hot sauce (I used Tabasco)
  • 3/4 cup AP flour
  • 1/2 cup yellow corn meal
  • 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • Enough peanut or vegetable oil to fill a large frying pan about an inch
Directions
  1. Stir the buttermilk and hot sauce together and add the crawfish meat. Let marinate in the mixture for about 20 minutes.
  2. In the meantime, make the breading by whisking the flour, corn meal, cayenne, salt and pepper together and then place in a small paper or plastic bag.
  3. After the 20 minutes, drain the crawfish meat well.
  4. Heat the oil in the frying pan until almost smoking. Add about a third of the crawfish to the flour filled bag and coat well. Fry the crawfish in the oil for no more than 2 minutes or until golden.( Remember the meat is already cooked ). Remove with a spider or large slotted spoon and drain on paper toweling. Repeat with the rest of the crawfish.

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Recipe by: inpatskitchen

I think I get my love for food and cooking from my mom, who was an amazing cook. She would start baking and freezing a month before Christmas in order to host our huge open house on Christmas afternoon. I watched and I learned...to this day I try not to procrastinate when it comes to entertaining. My cooking style is pretty much all over the place, although I'm definitely partial to Greek and Italian cuisine. Oh yes, throw a little Cajun in there too!

2 Reviews

boulangere August 10, 2011
Ragin' indeed - wow!
 
inpatskitchen August 10, 2011
Yup!! Ragin'!!