Crawfish Main Dish Recipes

"Entered for safe-keeping for ZWT. From Margaret E Walker at inmamaskitchen.com. Native to Australia is the yabbie or freshwater prawns or crayfish. If this fresh ingredient is unavailable, I would substitute prawns (shrimp). If condensed pumpkin soup is unavailable, I would substitute pureed pumpkin."

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Ingredients: cilantro, cornflour...

"I found this on Cooks.com and tweaked the recipe slightly, The original recipe said to serve them as they are, or to heat them in tomato sauce and serve over rice. I ate them on top of risotto. They are really rich, so go with a mild starch or sauce when you plan the meal."

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Ingredients: dried parsley, eggs...

"This recipe attempts to recreate the Cajun crawfish recipe served at Vietnamese restaurants in Little Saigon like The Boiling Crab, Claws, or The Crawfish House. It's what's known as Asian fusion, and the recipes are kept top secret. Buy 1-2 pounds of crawfish per person."

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Ingredients: crawfish, lemon pepper, lemons...

"They will never guess that this is made with soup! This is not spicy. Serve tossed with Bowtie pasta. I prefer a generous coating on my pasta. Eat with french bread or other warm rolls."

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Ingredients: crawfish, cream of mushroom soup...

"I just sort of made this up last night and it came out well. I had meant to make something else but found I didn't have all the ingredients so I subbed other stuff and changed the cooking method and here they are... very tasty, very fishy, very filling! Serve as a main course or an appetizer with fresh lemon wedges and a salad or some cooked veg of..."

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Ingredients: eggs, panko, lemon wedges...

"This is a great recipe based on one from Emeril Lagasse's book, Louisiana Real & Rustic. He says, "Believe it or not, this now-familiar crawfish dish was not known beyond Louisiana until the late 1940s or early 1950s when the oil boom brought an influx of outsiders to Acadiana, and in particular to Breaux Bridge, in St. Martin Parish, now..."

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Ingredients: green onions, onions...

"The prawns are cooked in a sauce made with coconnut and tomato puree, and yogurt. Fresh prawns have the better flavour if you can afford them. Intersting to cook, this dish goes well with a vegetable curry, and plain boiled rice."

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Ingredients: fenugreek seeds, desiccated coconut...

"Homestyle Etoufee from a recipe from my cousins wife, a real, native Cajun. She says this is her grandmothers recipe. There is never any left no matter how much I make, and everyone always wants the recipe. Etoufee made easy, keeps several days, and freezes well. That is if you have any left over. Double the amount of seafood for a real feast...."

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Ingredients: seafood, shrimp, celery soup...