Wayne Levi’s Genuine Original Boiled Crawfish

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook

By Justin Wilson

Published 1984

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Ingredients

  • 50 lbs. live crawfish
  • 4 3-oz. packages Zatarain’s dry crab

Method

Put all seasonings in a big pot that will hold 50 pounds of crawfish. Fill half full of cold water. Bring water with seasonings to a rolling boil.

Wash crawfish in cold water (a hose works well for this), and pick out the dead ones. Put crawfish in the pot and bring them barely back to a boil. It will have a red foam on top.

Turn off fire. Then, to cool pot down, spray the top o