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Bayou Fish Etouffee Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Betty_boop / All my dishes 1 year, 10 months ago This is a Bayou dish of my grandmothers. She an Grandfather lived on the bayou...this was their main food source. They had together 16 children ,in the 16 children she had a set of twins which she deliever by her self with candle light... my mom was ... More Prep:15m Cook:40m Servings:4	Betty_boop
	bayou country cooking not expensive not difficult

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Ingredients

4 lbs of Fish

We used CatFish , Blue Catfish, Spotted Catfish(not sure of any other kind of fish would work for this dish never have tried it....)

3 med Onions

2 tbsp of Hog Lard

4-6 cloves of Garlic

1 cup Green onions

1/2 cup Parsley

1/4 tsp salt

1tbsp of Pepper (red, black white)

1 pot of cooked rice (about 4 cups)

Directions

Now get a 6-8 qt. pot (do not use a black cast iron ...)

Place on stove top with a med heat/low

add:mix together : chopped onions, garlic chopped,parsley, salt , pepper set aside in a bowl.

now: put hog lard in your pot let it melt (using hog lard gives it the bayou flavor )

once it has melted

add:

some of your fish

then a layer of mixture (onions and pepper, garlic,seasoning)

Then another layer of fish

then another layer of mixture

keep this up ...until you run out of fish or mixture.

place a lid on the pot and let cook ..if heat is too high turn down.

Do Not put water into this dish at this time.

the reason for this the fish will cook out water from it's self.

DO NOT STIR ..TWIST THE POT FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OR RIGHT TO LEFT TO KEEP IT FROM STICKING...

let cook for about 40 minutes unless you see that it is begining to start falling apart..then your fish is ready.

If you do not have enough gravey ..

You may add :

Now warm water with gravey thickner like flour...

just pour alittle at a time and twist pot from left to right or right to left not stirring..

until you have enough for the family to have on their rice.

This fish stew / gravey is suppose to look clear ..My grandmother didn't always have on hand tomato sauce...

this is how she did it....

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Comments

eeks 1 year, 10 months ago said:
Good stuff...I like it!!

saltymike 1 year, 10 months ago said:
OK, BB...Ya got another goodone here! I like my catfish and this is a great way to fix it. I have to admit, I've never been scolded for stirring my etouffee. Thanks for posting this, You get my best rating (although you dont have hot sauce in you recipe).

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