Food and family are very closely connected in Louisiana. Families would come together to enjoy traditional creole meals like cajun spiced crawfish pie.
This recipe has been passed down through a family and still tastes as good today as the first time it was made.
The creamy sauce is made with evaporated milk and mushroom soup to give it a rich texture and a savory flavor.
It uses ready made pie crusts to save you time, but you can make your own if you prefer.
It is also more nutritious as the tomatoes contain lots of vitamin c. The vegetables complement the flavor of the tomato and the taste is deepened by seasonings like cayenne pepper.
These individual crawfish pies are inspired by street food served at jazz festivals in Louisiana.
They would make a great dish to cook for a party, especially a garden party.
You could cook up a batch to serve as a seafood option at your next BBQ.
You can use chicken stock to make the sauce if you want to, but if you can get hold of shrimp or seafood stock then it will help to bring out the flavor of the crawfish.
These handheld crawfish pies are a bit like turnovers. You can eat them on the go and pick them up with your fingers which makes them a great addition to a buffet or a picnic.
The filling is inspired by crawfish etouffee, a very popular dish in Louisiana.
You can use store bought puff pastry as it will save you a lot of time and effort.
Crawfish is naturally low in fat so it can be very healthy to eat. This recipe tries to recreate the classic crawfish pie but with less fat so you can enjoy it guilt free.
The pie crust is thin and crisp and the sauce is not full of cream, but it is still incredibly tasty.
This crawfish pie is the perfect creole comfort food. The pastry is buttery and flaky.
The filling is rich and creamy, the vegetables are soft and savory and the crawfish has that wonderfdul cajun flavor.
You can customoze this recipe by adding in whatever vegetables you fancy or whatever needs using up – this recipe uses onions, carrots, celery and peas.
Thyme and parsley flavors the filling along with cajun seasoning, and heavy cream makes the sauce nice and thick.
The sauce in this pie has an incredible flavor. It includes crab boil, velveeta cheese, butter, cream of mushroom soup, parsley, cayenne pepper, and of course, plenty of vegetables and crawfish.
You can also add hot sauce if you want your pie to have a kick of spice.
You can use store bought pie crusts to save time or you can make your own if you want to.
This recipe uses onions, green onions, celery and bell peppers. You can also add peas, carrots and whatever vegetables you fancy.
Have you ever made something so delicious that you wished you could savor it forever?
Only to find that the recipe has now mysteriously vanished from your phone and the entirety of the internet. Yep, there’s not much more painful than that.
Hi, my name is Mark Williams and I have been infatuated with cooking since I was young. I would beg my mother to pull a chair up to the counter so I could watch what she was doing.
