Little Pies Shrimp Filling Recipes

MINI SHRIMP PIES

Steps:

• For Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, blend butter and cream cheese until well combined.
• Cut in the flour with a fork.
• Divide dough into 6 balls.
• Chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Grease a 6-cup jumbo muffin tins with butter or nonstick cooking spray.
• Pat each of the chilled dough balls into each muffin cup.
• Bake for approximately 8 minutes, or until golden brown.
• For Filling: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and stir in flour.
• Slowly blend in half-and-half, stirring constantly.
• The sauce should be thick; do not brown the sauce.
• Add mushroom soup, sliced mushrooms, Parmesan, and egg.
• Stir to combine.
• Fold in shrimp.
• Add garlic powder, to taste.
• Pour mixture into pie crusts.
• Top with buttered bread crumbs.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until brown and bubbly.
• Let pies cool for 10 minutes before removing from muffin tin.
• Garnish each with sprig of parsley.

MINI CRAWFISH (OR SHRIMP) PIES

Steps:

• 1. First you make a roux. NO! NO! NO!, not this time. Just Kidding! Sorry, I got carried away...
• 2. FIRST - In a large skillet melt butter and add onion, celery, and chives/green onions, and season with a little salt and pepper. Saute until onions begin to soften.
• 3. Add garlic, worcestershire sauce, cayenne (start with a pinch, you can always add more later), and paprika; continue to simmer 15-20 minutes, stirring frequently.
• 4. Add soup and Cheez-Whiz, simmer until cheese is melted, stirring frequently to keep cheese from burning.
• 5. Add crawfish and simmer 10 minutes. Add 1/2 cap, or to taste, liquid crab boil, (optional).
• 6. Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl and add bread crumbs. Mix well and let sit to allow bread crumbs to expand. The mixture needs to be fairly thick so it won't fall down your shirt when you take the first bite of the mini crawfish pie.
• 7. Check the mixture and add more bread crumbs if needed, stir and set aside.
• 8. If you planned ahead and already have your bread cups made, then pop them back into the mini muffin pan and set aside, pour yourself a drink and put your feet up. Otherwise, get started making those bread cups. https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/bread/bread-sweet-bread/sourdough-mini-appetizer-cups.html
• 9. Once all of your ingredients are ready, use a small spoon and fill each bread cup, pack it in and heap it up on top. Sprinkle the top with a little paprika or chopped parsley. Bake at 350* F for 10 minutes and serve.
• 10. *NOTE: Before baking, crawfish pies can be frozen then put into a Zip-Lock bag and kept frozen until ready to serve. From frozen bake at 350* F for 25 minutes until hot.
• 11. *TIP: Alternate method for dough cups - Instead of making bread cups, you can use Pillsbury's pre-made pie crusts (2 crusts) in freezer section of the grocery, or you can make your own fabulous homemade pie crust. Use a cookie cutter to cut rounds that will form a cup when put into a mini muffin pan. Bake for 10 minutes then fill with crawfish mixture. Bake for another 10 minutes to heat through. *OPTIONS: If you don't want to make mini crawfish pies - use this filling to make one full size pie with a top and bottom crust. If you can't get crawfish, use shrimp or crab meat in place of crawfish. Add crab meat last so it stays together better.

LITTLE PIES- SHRIMP FILLING

Steps:

• Use shrimp that has been cleaned. Heat the frying pan. Add the cooking oil and stir-fry the shrimp, add the finely chopped onion and season with garlic, salt and pepper. Add the chopped tomatoes without seeds or skin. Add a little water and let simmer. Whip the egg yolks, add the milk and flour in a blender. Stir into the shrimp mixture. Continue to stir so it will not scorch. When thick, add the chopped palmitos, grated boiled eggs, chopped green olives and chopped parsley. Let cool. Mixture should be cold and thick before putting into the little pastry shells. NOTE: The same shrimp filling can be used for some of the other recipes in this section. If the filling is for pastéis, it will have to be a little thicker. If it is for empadinhas or pie, it can be less thick. For rocambole use a thicker filling. Less thick if you just want to serve it over rice.