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- Ingredients
- Basics:
- 24 pieces Crawfish, soft-shell, fresh
- Buttermilk for dipping
- Flour for dipping
- Oil for frying
- Hollandaise sauce for topping
- Crawfish stuffing:
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Butter or margarine
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) Onion, minced
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) Parsley, chopped
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) Black pepper
- 1 Egg, beaten
- 4 cups (950 ml) Breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) Flour
- 1 tbsp (15 ml) Garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) Salt
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) Cayenne pepper
- 4 cups (950 ml) White bread, chopped
- 2 pounds Crawfish tails, chopped
- Hollandaise Sauce:
- 10 Egg yolks
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Water
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Tarragon vinegar
- 1 pound Butter, melted
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Lemon juice
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Cream sherry
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) Tabasco sauce (or to taste)
- Preparation
- Remove top shell from each crawfish and the two calcium deposits (hard, stonelike substances above eyes). Discard.
- Prepare crawfish stuffing:
- a. Melt butter in large saucepan.
- b. Add flour and stir over heat until light brown.
- c. Add onion and garlic; saute.
- d. Remove from heat; add parsley, seasonings, egg, chopped bread and crawfish tails and stir until mixed.
- Replace shell with crawfish stuffing; stuffing can be applied easily with pastry bag.
- Dip crawfish first in buttermilk, then in flour.
- Fry to a golden brown.
- Prepare Hollandaise sauce:
- a. Combine all ingredients except butter in top of double boiler.
- b. Heat water in bottom of double boiler to boiling point.
- c. With whisk, mix egg mixture over hot water until egg is creamy and lemon-colored (will thicken to consistency of soft pudding).
- d. Remove from heat and continue to whisk while slowly adding butter.
- Cover stuffed fried crawfish with Hollandaise sauce and serve.
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