So you’re craving for a hot Cajun boiled craw fish but the nearest decent restaurant is like a thousand miles away, then what would you do? You make yourself a big batch of home style Cajun mix, don’t you? This Garlic Cajun Boiling Seafood is a perfect recipe to accomplish at home whenever you feel craving for one. Also it is the closest one you can make at yourself to assemble the famous shabang cajun flavor of LA Crawfish.
The name of this recipe has mentioned the main ingredients besides the almighty Cajun seasoning which is garlic. You’ll start with a lots of garlic and end with also a decent amount of additional garlic. Why? Because I was attempting to kill a demon in my apartment with the ancient beliefs: garlic-anti-everything-bad.
Boohoo, just kidding. I name this Garlic Cajun Boiling Seafood recipe because I love garlic. So we dive into those steps and ingredients and pay attention to details if you can, I have made many trial batches of this recipe in order to come up with the perfect amount for the ingredients. Enjoy yourself and may the almighty sauce be with us.
What else can I use Cajun sauce with?
Don’t limit the use of Cajun sauce to just only boiling seafood. I also use this amazing garlic Cajun sauce to make this Cajun Style Semi-dried Squid. This semi squid was one of the best sellers on our restaurant menu. The best part of any Cajun recipe is: pairing it with any kind of cold beer, then you’re in heaven.
And if you want to make this into a sandwich, I also have this tasty Cajun grilled avocado chicken sandwich ready for you. Try it and you will fall in love with the sandwich so deeply. Cajun chicken layered with fresh avocado, lettuce, and tomato is the best new sandwich.
Ingredients included in the recipe
- Old Bay seasoning. Your Cajun boiling seafood won’t complete without this. In fact, any Cajun style recipe that omits this particular ingredient is not really qualified for the amazing taste, in my opinion.
- Lemon Pepper seasoning. I use the one from McCormick.
- Paprika or smoked paprika.
- Cajun seasoning.
- Cayenne pepper.
Garlic Cajun Boiling Seafood
Ingredients
- 3 lb shrimps/clams/crawfish/mussels
- 1 lb unsalted butter
- corn on the corb cooked, as desired
- sausages cooked, as desired
- new potatoes cooked, as desired
Seasoning mixture
- 7 oz garlic minced
- 0.5 oz cajun seasoning
- 0.5 oz Old Bay seasoning
- 0.5 oz lemon pepper seasoning
- 0.5 oz paprika
- 0.4 oz brown sugar
- 0.2 oz cayenne pepper
Finishing mixture
- 8 oz unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 oz garlic minced
- 0.5 oz Cajun seasoning
- 0.5 oz Old Bay seasoning
- 0.5 oz paprika
Instructions
- In a heavy bottom medium cooking pot or large cooking pan, melt unsalted butter over medium heat. When butter has melted completely, add the minced garlic and saute for 5 minutes. Be careful, DO NOT burn the garlic.
- Add the seasoning mixture to the melted butter, constantly stir for another 5-8 minutes. After that, add the corn, sausages, and potato (if you want) to the pot, and let it simmer for 8 minutes. Make sure to come back and stir once a while to make sure the bottom DOES NOT burn.
- Add the uncooked shrimp to the mixture and simmer for 10 minutes. Then turn of the heat, cover the pot with lid and let them soak for another 5 minutes.
- Move shrimp and whatever adds on you have inside the pot to a large mixing bowl. Put the minced garlic and butter in and stir until the butter completely melted. Sprinkle with the rest of seasoning mixture over everything before serving. Enjoy!
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