Cream Of Mirliton Crawfish Soup Recipes

CRAWFISH AND CRAB SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large saucepan, over medium heat. Add the onions, corn and crawfish and saute for about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the cream, broth and crabmeat and bring to a high simmer, but do not boil. Cook for about 10 minutes to meld flavors, then reduce the heat to low. Add the potatoes, green onions, cream cheese and cayenne pepper. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper, to taste.
• To finish, stir in the 2 egg yolks, lime juice, chopped parsley and grated cheese. Ladle into serving bowls and serve. Great dish.

CREAM OF MIRLITON & CRAWFISH SOUP

Steps:

• 1. Peel mirlitons like you would peel a potato. Cut in half and remove the seed pod.
• 2. Slice into 1 inch cubes. Put into microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 12 to 15 minutes or until soft.
• 3. Puree in blender or food processor
• 4. Melt butter or margarine in a soup pot and saute all vegetables until soft. Add bay leaf and mirliton puree, cooking until most of the liquid evaporates.
• 5. Add 3 to 4 cups chicken broth, season to taste with salt, pepper, and cajun seasoning (Tony Chachere). Cover and cook on med heat for 45 minutes. Stirring occasionally.
• 6. Remove bay leaf, add crawfish tails and half and half. Simmer for 5 mins and serve. Hope you enjoy as much and my friends and family have.
• 7. ***If you have plenty to feed, double the recipe.

GO-TO CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large, heavy skillet over medium heat, and stir in the onion, green bell pepper, green onions, and celery; cook the vegetables, stirring frequently, until the onion is translucent and the vegetables have begun to soften, about 10 minutes. Stir in the golden mushroom soup, parsley, Cajun seasoning, salt, and black pepper, and bring the sauce to a boil.
• Gently mix in the crawfish tail meat, and simmer until the crawfish tails are opaque, 10 to 15 minutes.

CRAWFISH MIRLITON (CHAYOTE) SOUP

Steps:

• Stir dried herbs into broth and set aside.
• Saute crawfish tails in butter until warm and cooked through.
• Drain butter and crawfish juice into a pot. Set crawfish aside for later.
• Add onions, garlic, cayenne, and crab boil to butter and cook over low heat until onions are soft.
• Add mirliton and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Pour broth into pot, cover, and simmer over low heat. 25 minutes for peeled mirliton, and 30 for unpeeled.
• Use a food processor or blender to puree soup.
• Return soup to low heat, and gradually add in crawfish tails. Stir until tails are brought up to the soup's temperature.