Recipe: Delicious Crawfish soup

Crawfish soup. This "soup for the Cajun soul" can be made with crab, shrimp, crawfish, all three or in combination with each other. Most everyone use the term Bisque and Chowder interchangeably. The Best Crawfish Soup Recipes on Yummly

Like most families we have recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. Crawfish Soup (Chowder): Creamy Crawfish Corn Chowder is a hearty dish that goes a long way. If you like real cajun food, this is a great one to try. You can have Crawfish soup using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Crawfish soup

1. You need 1 pk of large jumbo shrimp shell on or off(devein).
2. Prepare 1 pk of crawfish (1lb).
3. Prepare 1 pk of coconut milk or can cream optional.
4. It's 1 pk of flavored soup mix (I used grace cock soup).
5. You need 1 of small pumpkin or calabaza.
6. Prepare 3 of large white potatoes diced.
7. Prepare 3 cups of chicken broth.
8. You need 2 cups of water.
9. Prepare 1 of large carrot diced.
10. You need 1 tsp of salt.
11. It's 1 tsp of cayenne pepper.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of oregano.
13. You need 2 tsp of paprika (1 to season shrimp).
14. You need 2 sprig of thyme.
15. You need 1 tsp of garlic powder.
16. You need 1 stalk of escallion or green onion.

Don't worry about making too much because it. You sit there looking at a soup so rich with crayfish, crabs or lobsters that the whole thing is a warming, welcoming. Crayfish are eaten all over the world. Like other edible crustaceans, only a small portion of the body of a crayfish is edible.

Crawfish soup instructions

1. Season your shrimp and crawfish with paprika, salt, pepper.
2. In your soup pot 😀 add 1 tsp oil and cook shrimp for 1min on each side. Then remove and set aside. Add crawfish and cook for 2mins on each side or until turn red..
3. Add 3 cups of chicken broth and 2 cup of water to the crawfish and bring to a boil. Then add diced carrots and pumpkin. Cover until the liquid comes to a boil and the pumpkin is soft..
4. Once the pumpkins are cooked remove them and crush em and then put them back to the pot. (This is optional) Then add your potatoes, salt, coconut milk,cayenne pepper, jamaican pepper, black pepper,oregano, flavoured soup mix, shrimp and stir. Cover and let cook for 20mins or until the potatoes are soft/cooked..

This one for Crawfish Cauliflower Soup is an adaptation of a recipe published in Louisiana Cookin'. This makes a large amount; it can be halved. Puree soup and pass through a fine sieve. Boil again and stir in cream. Season to taste and froth with an immersion blender.