Louisiana Crawfish Balls
From hienz1 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 24
This'll put some hair on your tongue. Honestly it's simple EASY and can be adapted with just about any recipe. The Crawfish can be substituted with Shrimp or those huge Prawns, or even Chicken.
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound crawfish (shrimp, prawns OK) - cooked cleaned and finely chopped. shopping list
- 2 tablespoons lightly salted butter or margarine. shopping list
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley. shopping list
- 2 tablespoons chopped green onions. shopping list
- 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour (white flour just doesn't do it for me). shopping list
- 2 egg whites (egg substitute NOT OK). shopping list
- 1/3 cup regular whole milk. shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt. shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon hot sauce (try "Footy's" chicken wing sauce). shopping list
- sunflower oil, for deep frying. shopping list
- bread crumbs, for coating outside of balls. shopping list
How to make it
- In medium saucepan, melt butter and add Parsley, Green Onions. Saute' for 1 minute.
- Blend in Flour.
- Stir in Milk, seasoning and Hot sauce.
- Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens (reduces) and comes to a boil.
- Remove from heat and stir in Crawfish.
- Scoop up mixture using a tablespoon and form into balls. Mixture will be a gooey mess, so use both hands.
- Place balls on WAXPAPER.
- Beat egg whites until well mixed, DON'T beat them into Mayonaisse.
- Dip balls into bread crumbs, then into egg whites, then into bread crumbs again.
- Chill for 30 minutes in refrigerator.
- Fill large saucepan or Deep Fryer to mid level with Sunflower oil and heat to 350 degrees. Test it by dropping a drop or 2 of water into hot oil.
- BE VERY CAREFUL.
- Fry a few balls at a time, until they are Golden Brown (approx. 2 or 3 minutes).
- Store cooked balls in paper towel covered bowl in cold oven while frying remaining balls.
- Enjoy.
The Rating
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Wow, these sound fantastic! I love crawfish and can't wait to taste them. Thanks so much for your recipe - and welcome to Group Recipes! ~Vickie
lunasea
in Orlando loved it
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Hello....
This recipe is so good!
Thank-you for sharing another "5"FORK!!!!! Wonder!
My Family misses 'Crayfish'....because we live in Southern California...so I will just have to "make-do" with Shrimp....Yes...I know that I can have C...more
mjcmcook
in Beach City loved it
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G'Day. Love the ingredients. Will try with various centrepieces. Thanks for sharing !!!!!5
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