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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
Ingredients
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1 pound
cooked crawfish tail meat, thawed if frozen, rinsed and drained
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2 cups
buttermilk
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1 tablespoon
hot sauce (I used Tabasco)
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3/4 cup
AP flour
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1/2 cup
yellow corn meal
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1 tablespoon
cayenne pepper
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2 teaspoons
salt
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1 teaspoon
black pepper
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Enough peanut or vegetable oil to fill a large frying pan about an inch
Directions
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Stir the buttermilk and hot sauce together and add the crawfish meat. Let marinate in the mixture for about 20 minutes.
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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.
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After the 20 minutes, drain the crawfish meat well.
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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.
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!
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