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Southern Low Country Boil With Cajun Lemon Butter This easy one-pot seafood dinner is packed with fresh Gulf shrimp, blue crab, crawfish, cajun sausage, potatoes, sweet corn, beer, and loads of seasoning! Grab a cold one and start cracking those craw daddies open! A Cajun shrimp boil is much like a Low Country Boil or Frogmore stew. It's more widely done under that nomenclature in places like Louisana, but the ingredients are very similar.
Low Country Boil (with a Cajun flair!) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Low Country Boil (with a Cajun flair!) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have low country boil (with a cajun flair!) using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Low Country Boil (with a Cajun flair!):
- Take 1 lb uncooked large shrimp (I choose raw, deveined, shelled)
- Make ready 1 lb andouille sausage cut into 1-inch pieces
- Get 1 lb red potatoes cut into quarters
- Take 3 tbsp Zatarans Crawfish and Shrimp boil seasoning powder
- Take 2 large ears of corn, cut into 3-inch chunks (or 3 small ears)
- Make ready 1 lemon, cut in half (squeeze about ½ the juice and then put the rest of the lemon in the pot.)
- Make ready 1 Orange, cut in half. (Squeeze about 1/2 of the Juice and then place in the pot.)
- Prepare 6 cups water
- Prepare 2 celery stalks, cut into 1-inch pieces
- Make ready 1 yellow onion, cut into quarters
- Take 3 large garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
Low country boil is a popular meal for large social gatherings, but can just as easily be made as a meal for two. While shrimp is most commonly cooked in a low country boil, many prefer to add crab or crawfish to give this dish a Cajun flair. Fill a large stockpot with water and the juice of one or two lemons, plus beer, if desired. Anyway….so, to the water, add the entire packet of cajun seasoning and bring the water to a rolling boil.
Steps to make Low Country Boil (with a Cajun flair!):
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- Spray slow cooker with cooking spray
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- Add water, garlic, and crawfish boil seasoning. Stir well.
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- Add potatoes, onion, celery, bay leaves, 1/2 lemon and 1/2 orange.
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- Cook on HIGH 2 ½ hours.
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- Add sausage and corn. Cook an additional hour.
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- Stir in shrimp gently and cook 15-20 minutes or until shrimp are pink.
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- Remove bay leaves before serving.
Fill a large stockpot with water and the juice of one or two lemons, plus beer, if desired. Anyway….so, to the water, add the entire packet of cajun seasoning and bring the water to a rolling boil. I find this works best when you set a timer! This boil is done best on an outdoor cooker. It has sausage, shrimp, crab, potatoes and corn for an all-in-one pot all-you-can-eat buffet!
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