Crawfish Jambalaya

A traditional Cajun recipe for Crawfish Jambalaya.

SouthernChickenIntermediate45 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 1 lb Crawfish tails
  • 1 0.3 cup Long grain rice [raw]
  • 1 tbsp Flour
  • 2 tbsp Salad oil
  • 1 cup Onion, chopped fine
  • 0.5 cup Chopped parsley [2 ts.flakes]
  • 0.5 cup Chopped green onion tops
  • 0.5 cup Chopped celery
  • 0.5 cup Chopped bell pepper
  • 0.3 cup Crawfish fat
  • 0.8 cup Water
  • 2 0.5 tsp Salt
  • 0.5 tsp Black pepper
  • 0.3 tsp Red pepper, or to taste

Instructions

  1. 1

    Brown flour in oil to a golden brown. Add onions. Stir constantly until onions are almost cooked. Add 1 1/2 cups cold water and simmer for 1/2 hr. Add crawfish tails and fat. Cook until crawfish turns pink. Add abt. 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. When water is rapidly boiling, add remainder of ingredients. Stir to blend and cook on low heat covered for abt. 1/2 hr. or until rice is tender. Five minutes before serving, use a 2 prong fork and fluff up jambalaya so that rice will have a tendency to fall apart.

Tags

saladcajun