Crawdads

Bates7 · Jul 24, 2010

LAST EDITED ON Jul-24-10 AT 12:00PM (MST)[p]Is there any Cajuns out there in MM land or perhaps any folks that have lived in Louisianna that have some good crawdad recipes?

When I was a young man I worked up at Big Lake, AZ as a boatboy at the marina and my boss's wife Clotilda Law cooked us up a batch of crawdads once that we had trapped and man they were good. So I got to thinking that I'd like to take a camping trip up there next summer and take my Cabela's fryer up there and trap some crawdads and have a big crawdad boil with some of my buddies. Sounds like good times to me.

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NickW · Aug 1, 2010

I've had many a crawdad boil, while camped around high country lakes, west of Tahoe. We always make up a dippin sauce consisting of ketchup and horseradish, as the main ingredients and spice it from there.
The more the horseradish, the hotter the flavor!

NiceRack · Aug 17, 2010

I'm no Cajun but here is how I do my crawdads.....
Get a large pot of water boiling, add 3 or 4 heaping tablespoons of "old bay" seasoning and 2 or 3 lemons halved....boil em till bright red, about 5 mins and enjoy.
Paul
"Nice Rack" Taxidermy

Trix4me · Aug 17, 2010

I know what you're going to say... BUT, add beer to the water and you won't be disappointed. (unless you didn't buy enough beer)

NickW · Aug 19, 2010

When did anybody ever buy enough beer?????

LESGO54 · Sep 22, 2010

ok guys, im from sout louisiana. i have cooked/boiled tons of crawfish. i dont know it u can buy it out west but get u some zatarans crab/crawfish boil. we always boiled about 40 pounds when we cook, we put red potatoes, onions,2 boxes of salt, cut up lemons and the zatarans in the water bring to a boil.after 5-7 minutes (lettin the taters cook) add the crawfish/corn/smoked sausage and mushrooms. let water come to boil again for 8 minutes. shut fire off and remove all ingredients from water and pig out. the dip we really love is 3/4ths mayo and 1/4 ketchup. chop up a purple onion real fine and add it. then add some cajun spices to your likeing. if u have any crawfish leftover u can peel them, egg wash them and roll in flour then deep fry. cook them till flour changes color.

Aaron84 · Oct 13, 2010

You dip crawfish in fry suace? Never thought to dip them in fry suace. Hell I dip everything in fry suace guess all have to give it a try. Fry suace is what we call the mayo ketchup mix here in utah if you were wondering what the hell i was talking about.

gnatboy911 · Nov 26, 2010

so i know this post is a little old....but, here is a great place for some recipes for crawdads.

www.trapperarne.com

he is a swedish guy that makes and sells traps, but he has a ton of good info on catching and cooking crawdads. i've got a couple of his traps and they work great.

LESGO54 · Dec 22, 2010

Bates7 · Jan 5, 2011

LESGO54 you just had to go and post a picture like that didn't ya? I'm so damn hungry for crawdads that I'm almost willing to bust through the lake ice to set my traps.

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ShaneR_LewID · Feb 3, 2011

Don't forget to "purge" them. Not sure on time, but I think an hour or two in salty water will do it. Otherwise they have a thick mudline along the tail.

LESGO54 · Sep 16, 2011

>Don't forget to "purge" them. Not
>sure on time, but I
>think an hour or two
>in salty water will do
>it. Otherwise they have a
>thick mudline along the tail.
>

do not purge them in salt water. crawfish are freshwater mudbugs. u pruge them in saltwater and they will be dead before u boil them. if they are dead when u boil them they will be mushy when u eat then