The Official Crawfish Boil Recipe

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The Official Crawfish Boil Recipe

Get ready to host the ultimate Louisiana feast with our Official Crawfish Boil Recipe! Packed with bold Cajun spices and classic Southern flavors, this recipe guarantees a crowd-pleasing experience. Perfect for gatherings, it’s the ultimate guide to a traditional crawfish boil done right!

Ingredients

1 (or more) bag Louisiana Fish Fry Crawfish, Shrimp & Crab Boil, 4.5 lb. Louisiana Fish Fry Products Boil Boosters, optional
35-40 lb. sack of live crawfish
4 lbs. new potatoes
2 lbs. of quartered onions
5 garlic pods
1 lb. quartered lemons
10-15 corn cobbettes

Optional Ingredients for Serving

Louisiana Fish Fry Products Cajun Drip Butter Seasoning Mix and melted butter

Directions

Wash live crawfish with fresh water until it runs clear. Remove any dead crawfish.
Fill boiling pot with enough water to cover seafood. Add one bag Crawfish, Shrimp, & Crab Boil (4.5 lbs.) to the water and bring to a rolling boil.
Add live crawfish, potatoes, onions, garlic, and lemons to your boil basket and carefully lower into boiling water. **Louisiana Fish Fry Products Boil Boosters are also a great addition to fresh vegetables.**
Boil for 5 minutes once water resumes boiling, turn off burner, and add frozen corn.
Soak for 15-20 minutes and give them a try! If desired flavor hasn’t been reached, soak in 5 minute increments. Once flavor has reached your liking, remove boil basket from pot, pour onto a newspaper-lined table, and enjoy!

Boiling another sack? Follow the same method as above, using previous boiling water. This time, add only half the seasonings and repeat the same soaking time as before.

Recipe Products

Crawfish, Shrimp & Crab Boil 4.5 lb

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Pro Tips

Oysters in Your Air Fryer

Ever wondered whether you should try oysters in your air fryer? So have we, and we were curious enough to test it out.

Click here for the full Air Fried Garlic Butter Oysters recipe page.

Spoiler alert: Yes, you can and yes, you should.

Oranges in your Seafood Boil

Try using oranges instead of lemons in your crawfish boil!

-submitted by Timothy Dunn

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