Click here for a printable PDF recipe card Sinfully Delicious Seafood Pasta
So there’s a reason that the word “sinful” is in the title…it’s NOT healthy! Sometimes you have to cheat a little. In this case, a lot 🙂
I originally started making this dish about 10 years ago. I found the base to this recipe in a Louisiana magazine and tried it out. It only called for crawfish and it lacked some serious seasoning. I had to adjust the recipe significantly as I cooked. The recipe has morphed throughout the years. It’s always delicious but it probably changes a little every time I make it because I don’t measure things when I cook. I season, I taste, I add something else in until I’m happy with the result. I really love it with real blue crab meat in it, but we haven’t boiled crabs lately and I’m not willing to pay $10 for a little can at the store. So tonight’s was made with shrimp and crawfish only. If you have crab meat, throw as much in as you have! You don’t need to make any measurement adjustments to the rest of the ingredients if you do.
I’ve said before that one of the most challenging parts for me in doing this blog is measuring things. So tonight I was “forced” to measure as I added, wrote it down, tasted it, what else did it need, added, tasted, etc. So the picture of the ingredients isn’t fully representative of what’s on the actual ingredient list (pay attention to the list not the picture). Thanks to this blog I now have a true recipe and one that can be passed down to my daughter and now shared with all of you 🙂
Ingredients: raw shrimp, cooked crawfish tails, butter, flour, onion, green onions, dried parsley, minced garlic, white wine, heavy whipping cream, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic powder, liquid crab boil, cooked pasta, French bread for dipping (optional).
Get your prep work done before starting to cook: 1) shell & devein 1 lb. medium shrimp, if needed (I bought shrimp that was already shelled and deveined), rinse, and cut into 3 pieces; 2) chop 3 green onions; 3) mince one medium onion.
Using a deep saute’ pan, melt 1 1/3 sticks of butter. I originally just used 1 stick but once it was mixed with the flour, onions, etc. it was a little too “tight.” The additional 1/3 made it perfect.
Once butter is melted, whisk in 4 TBSP of flour.
Cook on medium heat for ~3 minutes to cook out the raw flour taste.
Add in the 3 green onions and 1 medium one you previously chopped.
As well as, 4 TBSP dried parsley, 4 TBSP minced garlic, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp black pepper. Emeril Lagasse always says that your onions don’t come out of the ground seasoned, so don’t skip the layering of seasoning throughout the cooking process.
This is what it looks like at the very beginning…
This is after sauteing on medium heat for about 10 minutes…
And this is after 20 minutes…
Good food sometimes takes time, so don’t rush it 🙂
Now add in shrimp, 1 lb. cooked crawfish tails, 1 cup of white wine, and 1/4 tsp salt.
Cook on medium heat for ~10-12 minutes.
Now stir in 1/2 + 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp black pepper, and 1/2 tsp garlic powder.
Reduce heat to low and slowly add in 2 cups of heavy whipping cream.
** You don’t want it to boil or it will curdle**
Add in 1/2 tsp Zatarain’s liquid shrimp & crab boil and simmer for ~15 minutes.
If you’ve never used this before, please be careful! Don’t touch the liquid with your hands unless you plan to wash your hands really well. Touching your eyes with this would be like taking some type of really hot pepper and rubbing it on your eyeballs. You will be begging God for mercy! I wouldn’t take a big whiff out of the bottle for it will surely burn your nose, hahaha! And don’t taste it out of the bottle! It is quite potent, so trust me with the previous “do not’s” and with only adding 1/2 tsp.
Now your sinful deliciousness is ready!
Serve over pasta (I prefer angel hair, but our daughter likes linguine). Honestly, this stuff is so good that you could serve it over a cardboard box and it would be great! A little French bread on the side to soak up the extra sauce is really nice too 🙂
Bon Appetite!!
Click here for a printable PDF recipe card Sinfully Delicious Seafood Pasta
Sinfully Delicious Seafood Pasta
Ingredients:
1 lb. medium shrimp
1 lb. cooked crawfish tails
1 1/3 sticks butter
4 TBSP flour
3 green onions, chopped
1 medium onion, minced
4 TBSP dried parsley
4 TBSP minced garlic
¼ tsp + ¼ tsp + ½ tsp salt
¼ tsp + ¼ tsp black pepper
1 cup white wine
½ tsp + ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp garlic powder
2 cups heavy whipping cream
½ tsp liquid crab boil
Cooked pasta
French bread (optional)
Directions:
In large sauté pan, melt butter. Whisk in flour & cook ~3 min. Add green onions, onions, parsley, minced garlic, ¼ tsp salt, & ¼ tsp black pepper. Sauté 20 min. on medium heat. Add shrimp, crawfish, wine, & ¼ tsp salt. Cook 10-12 min. Stir in remaining salt & pepper, all cayenne pepper, paprika, & garlic powder. Reduce heat to low. Slowly stir in heavy cream. *Do not boil or it will curdle* Add liquid crab boil & simmer on low for 15 minutes.
Serve over cooked pasta.
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