How to Boil Crawfish

Are you an avid crawfish fan or a one-man party planner? Here's how to make your next event into a full blown crawfish boil.

What you need:

- Boiling pot with burner and propane
- 35lb sack live crawfish(or about 2-3 lbs per person)
- Large Cooler to Clean(Purge) Crawfish
- Large Bag of Crawfish or Crab Boil (Louisiana, Zatarain's)
- Smoked Sausage cut up into large pieces (optional)
- Whole mushrooms (optional)
- Red Potatoes - small
- Corn on the Cob - cut into sections
- Also optional - Lemon, Garlic Heads cut in half, Newspaper to serve cooked crawfish on

Step 1:

First, you'll need to clean or 'purge' the crawfish. Some prefer to use salt to purge their crawfish. It's not necessary but whatever your preference is. Dump the crawfish into a Large cooler. Wash off the crawfish with water hose and rinse out the water until the water is no longer dirty. Be sure to remove ALL dead crawfish then let the crawfish sit in the clean water for at least an hour. You can now add saltto the water if you prefer.

Step 2:

Now, while your crawfish are soaking, you want to fill your boiling pot up two-thirds with water. Pour in the bag of seasoning, or wait to season the water after you cook your potatoes and corn if you don't like extra spicy potatoes and corn. Place the pot on the burner, turn the gas on a little, light the burner, then put the gas on high. Once the water boils put in the potatoes. Check the potatoes. They should cook completely in about 30 minutes. When they are halfway done put in the corn along with the potatoes. This is also a good time to add the optional ingredients like sausage, lemons, garlic, mushrooms.

When corn and potatoes are done remove them and other ingredients from the pot.
You can now fill your boiling basket with crawfish and add the crawfish boil seasoning to the water if you haven't already. Once the water returns to a boil put the basket of crawfish into the pot. Cook the crawfish until the water returns to a boil then remove them.

Step 3:

This is the best step. Spread out the newspaper and dump the crawfish out on it along with the corn and potatoes and other fixins' and you got yourself a genuine, bonafide crawfish boil! Enjoy!