Cajun and Creole Recipes
Crawfish Stuffed Peppers
Ingredients
- 1 pound crawfish tails, chopped
- 2 sticks butter
- 3/4 loaf very stale French bread (no crust, dried thoroughly in oven)
- 3 medium onions, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 3 medium bell peppers, chopped
- 5 large bell peppers, parboiled and halved
- Parsley
- Salt
- Red pepper
Instructions
- Saute onions, celery and 3 medium bell peppers in butter until very well done, mushy and yellowish. This takes about 45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the bread. Remove crust and slice into thick slices. Soak 2 to 3 slices at a time in water. Remove from water as soon as bread is wet and squeeze into small handsful as dry as possible. Shred into tiny pieces immediately.
- To the vegetable mixture, dd crawfish, crawfish fat and seasoning and simmer for about five minutes.
- Add bread and cook for about 10 minutes.
- Fill bell pepper halves and top with bread crumbs.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately 45 minutes.