Crawfish Pasta

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Main Course
Ingredients: 
crawfish
heavy cream
pasta

Recipe courtesy of Jyl Benson

Serves 4

Ingredients: 
  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1 small onion, minced
  • 1 small green bell pepper, minced
  • 2 celery ribs, minced
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1pound Louisiana crawfish tails with fat
  • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
  • 6 ounces jalapeño cream cheese
  • Tony’s (or your favorite Creole or Cajun) Seasoning 
  • 1 pound whole wheat corkscrew pasta, cooked to package directions
 

Creamy Crawfish Pasta

Creamy Crawfish Pasta
Method: 

Add butter to a Dutch oven, preferably cast iron, set over medium-high heat. Add onion, green pepper and celery. Cook until onion is opaque.  Add garlic and cook until fragrant.  Add crawfish and cook until heated through.  Add cream and cream cheese and cook until heated through and cream cheese is melted.  Add Tony’s to taste. Add pasta and heat through. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook until sauce is slightly thickened.  Cook pasta according to package instructions. Divide among four bowls and top with crawfish sauce. Serve at once.

Comments

Submitted by Kerrie Miller on Feb 27, 2013.

So where do you find the jalapeno cream cheese.......cannot locate in Shreveport

Submitted by Susan on Feb 28, 2013.

Dice jalapeno peppers to taste and stir into softened cream cheese.