Cajun Crawfish Pistolette Recipes

CRAWFISH PISTOLETTES

Steps:

• Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the chopped onion, bell pepper, green onions, and garlic. Cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Pour in the evaporated milk and bring to a simmer. Stir in the processed cheese until melted. Reduce the heat to low, and keep the sauce warm.
• Meanwhile, melt 1/2 teaspoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the crawfish tails and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and Cajun seasoning. Cook and stir until the tails are hot and beginning to curl, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir the crawfish tails into the cheese sauce, and cook for 5 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large skillet to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cook the pistolette rolls in the hot oil until golden brown on all sides. Remove to a paper towel lined plate to cool. Once cool enough to handle, cut a slit in one end of each roll, then use the handle of a spoon to create a pocket in the roll. Stuff the rolls with the crawfish mixture and serve immediately.

CRAWFISH PIE

Steps:

• Place the pie crust into a deep-dish pie plate.
• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat, and cook and stir the onion, green pepper, celery, salt, cayenne pepper, and white pepper until the vegetables are tender and the onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes and crawfish tails, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook for about 3 minutes to blend flavors, stirring occasionally.
• Whisk flour and water together in a bowl until the mixture is smooth, and pour the flour mixture into the skillet. Bring the filling to a simmer, and cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to stand for 20 to 30 minutes to finish thickening.
• While filling is cooling, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Pour the filling into the prepared pie crust, and bake in the preheated oven until the crust is golden brown and the filling is hot and bubbling, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

CRAWFISH PISTOLETTES

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat.
• Add the garlic, onion and bell pepper and saute until soft.
• Add the flour, seasoned salt and crawfish tails, cover and cook on low for 10-15 minutes until well heated.
• Mix in the worcestershire sauce, evaporated milk and parmesan cheese and stir.
• Remove this mixture from the heat and let thicken, stirring occasionally.
• While this is thickening, hollow out the pistolette rolls.
• Once hollow, fill the rolls with the crawfish mixture.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 10-15 minutes (until the rolls are lightly browned and crusty).

CRAWFISH STUFFED PISTOLETTES

Steps:

• Heat butter in a large skillet.
• Saute onion, bell pepper, celery, green onion and garlin on med-high heat for about 5 minutes until softened and golden.
• Pour in evaporated milk and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and add cheese.
• Cook, stirring frequently, until cheese melts and texture is smooth.
• Reduce heat to low and add ground crawfish. Cook 5 minutes and remove from heat to let cool,.
• Heat oil in a large skillet.
• Brown each pistolette on each side until just golden brown.
• This is done quickly.
• Cool pistolettes on paper towels.
• When cooled, use a paring knife to make a slit on one end of pistolette to form pocket; then fill pocket with seafood stuffing.
• To reheat and serve as appetizers place pistolettes in a sheet pan and heat in oven at 200F for 20 minutes.

EASY CRAWFISH PISTOLETTES

Steps:

• Clean crawfish. Leave in bowl of cold water until ready to use.
• Brown sausage per package directions; drain.
• Add Velveeta and crawfish to sausage. Cook on medium heat, until Velveeta is melted, stirring often.
• Remove from heat. Using a spoon, poke an opening into each pistolette.
• Spoon 1 1/2 tbsp crawfish mixture into each roll. Place on lightly greased baking sheet. Brush with butter, if desired.
• Bake per package directions (usually 12 minutes). Cool 5-10 minutes (best served warm!), and enjoy!