This recipe is a great Cajun classic! If you love Italian food with a Cajun flare then THIS is what you are looking for!
This seafood recipe is one of my favorites! It is a flavorful dish that marries my two most favorite cuisines, Cajun and Italian. Living here in Louisiana, the crawfish are plentiful and always anticipated during fishing season. It is our favorite time of year when we get to whip up these crawfish seafood recipes in all sorts of variety! This is definitely one that will have you wishing crawfish were in season all year round!
Crawfish Ravioli
Prep Time: 15 min.
Cook Time: 30 min.
Total Time: 45 min.
Ingredients:
1/4cup margarine or 1/2 a stick of butter
1cup to 1 1/2cups of heavy whipping cream
1 sm yellow onion
1/2 of a large bell pepper
3 cloves of minced garlic
1 green onion chopped coarsely
Season to taste
Dash of nutmeg
1lb of cleaned crawfish tails
1 box breaded cheese ravioli (usually in the frozen food section) or 1 pack of fresh cheese ravioli
Parmesan cheese for garnish
Directions:
Begin by preheat oven to the temperature marked on the breaded ravioli package. -OR- If you’re using fresh ravioli, bring salted water to a boil in a pot.
In a heavy bottom saucepan, melt your butter or margarine over a med heat. Add your bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Saute’ until the onions are clear in color. Add the crawfish tails and stir. Saute’ for approx 3-5min until tails begin to curl. Add your heavy whipping cream, seasoning and the nutmeg. Stir. Allow mixture to simmer for 10min over low to medium heat. While that simmers, boil fresh ravioli, or bake your breaded ravioli according to package directions.
If sauce seems to be too thin, you can use flour, or as a last resort, corn starch to thicken it up. The sauce should be thick in consistency similar to an Alfredo sauce.
Once the ravioli is ready to plate, check for consistency and seasoning one last time. (Remember not to exceed 15min crawfish cooking time. This may cause it to become tough.) Plate your ravioli in stacked circular pattern, ladeling crawfish cream sauce over ravioli. Garnish with chopped the green onion and parmesean cheese.
Sides recommended are garlic bread or maybe some homemade rolls. You may also try serving a green salad with a sweet onion dressing or vinegrette.
Resources:
Real Cajun Recipes
New Orleans Restaurants
Sandwiches are the ideal small dish to make for an important day with a large amount of guests. Hand held and bite-sized you can make them for brunch, tea parties, and even for dinner. Here are three great sandwich recipes for your special occasion.
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Fresh fish is the best fish. This video discusses filleting a fish.
Here are some things to think about when cleaning a fresh fish:
Be careful because fish fins are sharp and if you are not careful can cause a serious puncture wound
Some fish, puffer fish as an example, can be toxic
Just because you caught a fish does not mean it is edible. Some fish are too bony or have too strong a taste to eat.
Many fish have extremely sharp and cutting teeth. Hold the head carefully when cleaning.
Take the time to know the area where the fish was caught. Some areas are polluted and you should not eat any fish caught in the area.
Streams, ponds and lakes are the best place to catch fish.
How to fillet a fresh fish, with David Horsfield, chef instructor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Resources:
USDA: Handling Seafood With Safety
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Eating healthy is something that we all want to do. When we eat healthy we do not have to give up tastes especially when we eat seafood. This article give the recipe for a shrimp dish that tastes good and is good for you. There are additional resources at the end of the article.
Big Daddys Seafood Market Healthy Eating Lemon Garlic Shrimp And Vegetables
Healthy Eating Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Shrimp & Vegetables
One of my favorite dishes is shrimp scampi. This is a healthy variation of this dish. Eating healthy does not have to taste bad. When you eliminate the butter and substitute vegetables and seasonings you can have a meal that is easy to create, tastes good and is healthy for you. You can serve over linguine, whole wheat couscous or quinoa.
Serving amount: 4
Prep time 35 minutes
List of Ingredients
4 full teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil, split up
2 Nice large bell peppers, I prefer red, diced
2 lbs of asparagus. Cut into 1 inch lengths
2 teaspoons of freshly grated lemon
One half a teaspoon of salt, divided
5 whole cloves of garlic minced up
1 lb of uncooked shrimp count of 26 – 30 per lb. Devein and peeled
1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Directions:
1. Heat the 2 teaspoons of oil inside a large sized non-stick skillet or pan using medium to high heat. Add bell peppers, asparagus, lemon zest and 1/4 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until just beginning to soften, about 6 minutes. Transfer the vegetables to a bowl; cover to keep warm.
2. Add the remaining 2 teaspoons oil and garlic to the pan and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add shrimp and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Whisk broth and cornstarch in a small bowl until smooth and add to the pan along with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring, until the sauce has thickened slightly and the shrimp are pink and just cooked through, about 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat. Stir in lemon juice and parsley. Serve the shrimp and sauce over the vegetables.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 226, Total Fat 7 g, Saturated Fat 1 g, Monounsaturated Fat 4 g, Cholesterol 174 mg, Sodium 514 mg, Carbohydrate 14 g, Fiber 4 g, Protein 28 g, Potassium 670 mg. Daily Values: Vitamin A 80%, Vitamin C 210%, Iron 25%. Exchanges: Vegetable 2,Lean Meat 3,Fat 1.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
Resources:
American Heart Association
About.com: Longevity – The Best Type Of Fish
This is how you buy seafood in Greece.
These prawns are still alive. I’m feeling a bit sorry for them.
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The pan fried scallops from the last dish acually went into this pot of gold. Staring…Fresh Sea Scallops, Shrimp and Fresh Mussels. Haven’t made a pot of this stuff in awhile. Turned out just fine. Adult language
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This is an example of a quick and easy way to cook fish.
Big Daddys Seafood Market How To Cook Swordfish
This is a recipe to sear a nice piece of fish, in this case swordfish.
Heat the pan
Add a tablespoon of butter and allow to melt
Cook fish for 20 sec per side for a 1 inch thickness piece of fish
Take the fish out and place it on a pan in the oven at 350 Deg for 15 to 20 minutes
Add Tomato Compote Spinach Garlic and Onions to the remaining butter and allow them to brown
Add them bake to the cooked fish and enjoy.
Resources:
About.com Fish And Seafood Cooking: How To Cook Swordfish
Learn how to saute fish for pan seared swordfish with tomato compote and spinach in this free cooking video.
Duration : 0:2:46
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As people look for healthier food choices, seafood and fish are becoming more popular. Sometimes certain fish will have a strong taste and for some people the taste of seafood is hard to take. This post discusses ideas to overcome that problem.
Big Daddys Seafood Market Tips For Eliminating Fish Taste From Seafood
My boyfriend hates seafood but I love it, what are some recipes that I can have him try that have mild fish taste?
Tilapia is a mild fish with a sweet taste to it and liked by many tat do not like other’s that have that fishy smell.
Using strong herbs, fruits and or vegetables will help. Examples are:
Fresh or minced garlic
Fresh cut up onions
Chopped leeks
Rosemary
Juniper berries
Thyme
Fresh mint leaves
Fresh parsley sprigs
Salt
Red Pepper
Fresh slices of or juice and even rinds from lemons, oranges or limes
The method you cook can make a difference. Baking or grilling will have a better effect versus frying. When cooking thin pieces you have to be careful on a grill so that the piece does not fall apart and into the fire. One method is to use a piece of tin foil
If you decide to bake set the oven at 350 degrees and bake for only 15 – 20 minutes
Should you choose to fry if you use a sauce made of egg, mustard and hot sauce you will be pleased. Cook for about 2 minutes per side.
Cooking seafood and fish can be a tasty way to improve your diet towards the healthy side. Take the time to look through the recipes on this site for tips and ideas. Feel free to submit any of your own. Who knows we might publish them!
Resources:
Alaska Seafood: A Food Service Guide To Seafood Quality
in LA, oxnard, camrillo, ventura, santa monica area
Try any markets in chinatown. Fresh and cheap.
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Here at Catalina Offshore Products we recently visited Bay Park Fish Co. in San Diego and brought by some of our famous fresh seafood for the sushi chef to prepare. This video is intended to be used as a informational source to our buyers
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