Doug’s Crawfish Pie

Description

Crawfish and puff pastry — does it get any better than that? Spice it up. Have fun with it.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • ½ cup flour
  • 1 sweet onion (such as Vidalia®), chopped
  • 1 green bell pepper, chopped
  • celery, chopped
  • 4 green onions, chopped
  • ½ cup vegetable broth
  • 3 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 pounds cooked and peeled whole crawfish tails
  • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
  • ¼ cup fresh parsley, chopped
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • cayenne pepper to taste
  • hot sauce to taste
  • 12 puff pastry shells

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a large skillet on medium heat
  2. then stir in flour; cook until light brown
  3. about 10 minutes. Add sweet onion
  4. green pepper
  5. celery
  6. and green onions. Cover and simmer on low heat for about one hour
  7. stirring occasionally.
  8. Stir in vegetable broth and tomato paste
  9. and cook until it reaches a creamy consistency. Mix in crawfish tails
  10. garlic
  11. and parsley
  12. then cook for about 15 minutes or until the tails are tender. Stir in salt
  13. black pepper
  14. cayenne pepper
  15. and hot sauce.
  16. Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Bake the puff pastry shells for 5 to 7 minutes
  17. or until they puff up and start to brown a little. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Pull off center tops and save. Turn oven down to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  18. Spoon mixture into puff pastry shells until slightly overfilled. Put extra filling into a pie dish and cover with the remaining puff pastry shell center tops to create 6 small pies and 1 large crawfish pie. Place pies on a baking sheet.
  19. Bake for about 15 minutes
  20. or until the shells are golden brown and the filling has a nice shine to it.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 2 hrs

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 12

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