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Crawfish Or Shrimp Cornbread Dressing
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Ready In: 45 Minutes
Servings: 8
This dish is great by it's self or you can use it as a side dish with fried crawfish ,fish, shrimp, also serve a garden sald, or cabbage slaw, rolls and desert.......
Ingredients:
1 or 2 lbs of crawfish or shrimp
2 or 3 cans campbells shrimp soup( i know this doesn't sound cajun this is the country part of me...lol)
1/2 stick of butter (not margine) or 1 to 2 tbsp. olive oil
1/4 bell pepper
this is optional if you want it hot use some japaleno pepper the kind in a jar is fine...doesn't have to be fresh from the garden..
1tsp of worcestershire
1 bunch of green onions
1/2 bunch of parsley
slap yo' mama seasoning
1 tbsp of minced garlic
2 boxes of jiffy cornbread mix
Directions:
1. A large Pot ...6 qt will do... NOT a Black Cast iron you don't want your stuff to look black....
2. 1 large Glass Baking pan.......11x16 something about that size...
3. okay.....Now cut up onions , parsley, garlic, put into a pile on a plate,
4. the watery juice from the crawfish in its bag save it in a cup or bowl. then cut up Crawfish into small chunks.... set aside in another plate or bowl.
5. Okay....
6. Take your large 6 qt pot and put your oil/butter into it......
7. take onions( make sure you cut up very tiny or chop fine in a food processor), half of green onions and half of parsley, japaleno peppers if you want, garlic and saute' them til onions are clear...
8. now add 2 can of Shrimp soup and saute for a bit
9. add Slap yo' MaMa...WORCESTERSHIRE
10. let cook for 30/45 minutes , add the crawfish water that you put aside , stirring occasionly... boy it smells good....
11. now.. add your crawfish or Shrimp and let cook for about I5minutes..
12. while this sauce is cooking If you need to add a little water do so.....but if you put to much water ....Well that is what the extra cans of soup is for...to keep a thick texture....
13. Mix Jiffy Cornbread mix as directed.... using a cast iron skillett to cook corn bread in....
14. after it is cooked :
15. Turn off Crawfish or Shrimp:
16. Add cornbread into your Crawfish/Shrimp mixture..... add the rest of your green onions, parsley..Mix all really well......
17. You can save 1/2 of the Crawfish/Shrimp to top on cornbread dressing when it is finished cooking..
18. In the Glass baking dish that I said you would need....
19. take some olive oil an rub the sides of glass dish so mixture will not stick..
20. Take your crawfish/shrimp cornbread mixture put into glass dish...
21. this mixture is not souppie it is kind of thick....
22. put into oven and bake until it is lightly brown.
23. now that you are finished with this.. serve HOT....
24. you may serve it with the other half of Crawfish/Shrimp if you saved it. or Fried crawfish, or Shrimp, Fried Fish.
25. also fix a green salad, drink.....desert......
By RecipeOfHealth.com