Chef Mike’s Crawfish Boil

Name: Chef Mike’s Crawfish Boil
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 6 Servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 10-11 lbs live crawfish; Water; 1 cup Zatatans crawfish boil powder; 4-5 tbs Zatatans crawfish boil liquid; 5 lbs baby red potatoes; 4 lbs Smoked Sausage (cut into 1-2” sections as preferred); 6 ears corn on the cob (cut in 3 pieces each); 3 yellow onions (peeled and halved); 3 garlic heads (halved...husked in tact); 4 oranges (halved); 2 lemons (halved)

Boca de Fogo @bocadefogo

Flowery Branch, Georgia, United States

I am a huge fan of crawfish boils and have attended many...MANY...in my time in the South. I am happy to share what I consider the best recipe/process I’ve witnessed and now make myself in crawfish season from April-July. (Adjust ingredients according to the amount of CRAWFISH eaters...those who don’t care for crawfish but still attend your boil will eat all the sausage corn and potatoes!!! 😡) Oh, and don’t forget to smear the garlic on the potatoes with a squeeze of lemon or orange!! Yummmm!!

Boca de Fogo @bocadefogo

Flowery Branch, Georgia, United States

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Ingredients

90-120 mins

6 Servings

10-11 lbslive crawfish
Water
1 cupZatatans crawfish boil powder
4-5 tbsZatatans crawfish boil liquid
5 lbsbaby red potatoes
4 lbsSmoked Sausage (cut into 1-2” sections as preferred)
6 earscorn on the cob (cut in 3 pieces each)
3yellow onions (peeled and halved)
3garlic heads (halved...husked in tact)
4oranges (halved)
2lemons (halved)

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Steps

90-120 mins

1

Using a burner with at least 50,000 BTUs, fill a 30 quart stock pot half full of water. (A good quality turkey fryer is usually perfect)
2

Add the Zatatans powder and liquid, onion and garlic and ignite your burner on medium-high.
3

Partially squeeze your lemons and oranges into the water mixture and drop the oranges and lemons into the pot. Bring to a rolling boil (approx 15-20 mins)
4

Reduce burner heat and add crawfish to pot. Stir. Keep at a low simmer for 15 mins.
5

5 minutes after adding crawfish, add potatoes and sausage. Stir.
6

After 10 minutes, add corn and turn off heat. Cover and let steep for 25 minutes.
7

With a hose, spray the outside of the pot to cool it down and stop the cooking process. Raise the inner strainer basket and let drain. (If you have a couple pieces of wood you can lay them over the top of the pot and sit the strainer basket on top to drain for a few minutes)
8

Carefully pour the boil onto a paper covered table and dig in!

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Boca de Fogo @bocadefogo

on July 06, 2021 11:16

Flowery Branch, Georgia, United States

I LOVE to cook and create. I tend to be heavy on spice and the savory dishes and I love making hot sauces and salsas which are now part of our new quick-service Mexican kitchen and taco truck business. Marinading and smoking meats is also one of my favorite hobbies as well.