There are many lovers of seafood plates, that's why it is important to discover every time new tricks to get the best results, and let people to love cooking and eat more seafood.
Most necessary thing about cooking seafood is the method, when you want to boil your seafood as crabs or shrimps and lobster, you have to respect the rankings of the ingredients.
What exists in a seafood boil?
Any seafood type you like, as clams, crawfish or mussels and shrimps, lobster and more. With veggies of your choice and garlic of course with seafood seasoning, everything in hot water and let it boil.
How to prepare delicious seafood boil?
The best taste of this meal is coming from the variety of the ingredients and it is easy to make.
- At first fry a little bit the Onions and garlic in vegetable oil this two ingredients are important in seafood or fish plates in general.
- Secondly add water with the seasoning and the veggies as potatoes and mushrooms with corn.
- So bring them to a boil until get soft and cooked.
- Then take them out of the pot and replace them with seafood until completely cooked.
- Finally serve your meal.
Seafood boil Serving idea:
Usually it is served on a covered table, or in a big plate.
Recipe of seafood boil:
This recipe takes a Preparation time of 20 minutes, and a 40 minutes of cooking. And it will serves 6 persons.
Ingredients list:
- Six pieces of king crab legs.
- Two pounds of jumbo shrimps, unpeeled and raw.
- Three Lobster tails, about 8 ounces.
- Two medium lemons.
- Ten sprigs or 8 of fresh parsley.
- One yellow medium onion.
- Two gloves of garlic.
- 14 ounces of andouille sausages.
- 6 to 8 red baby potatoes, about one pound.
- Three pieces of corn.
- Three tablespoons of olive oil or vegetable oil.
- Four quarts of water.
- Half cup and one tablespoon of old bay seasoning or Cajun seasoning, divide it.
- Mushroom about 8 ounces, optional.
- Half stick of salted butter.
- The sauce of Tabasco for serving.
Method and steps:
If you have Frozen Seafood you have thaw them overnight in the refrigerator.
Bring 2 halves of two medium Lemons with chopped parsley, keep some of it for serving and for the sauce.
Peel garlic and onion and place them inside a bowl with andouille sausages, plus red baby potatoes and corn.
Then rinse your seafood with cold water and drain it. After that, cut the lobster in half.
Fry a little bit the onion at first until thawed in 3 tablespoons of oil on medium heat, then add garlic until getting the golden color, last thing is cooking andouille sausage for 3 more minutes and add 4 quarts of water then cover it for 15 minutes on high heat.
Other step is to add mentioned veggies and seasoning of your choice and boil everything together for another 15 minutes.
Add lobster tails, shrimps and crab legs and combine. Take them out of the heat and let everything cook in its own heat.
Serve the seafood and the veggies after draining, then add four tablespoons of salted butter and parsley to 2 cups of the liquid. After melting the butter pour it on seafood and vegetables with a squeeze of lemon and the seasoning of Cajun or old bay, and serve the rest of the sauce or Tabasco sauce as desired for dipping .
Important tips:
If the salted butter is not available, you could replace it with unsalted butter and kosher salt about 1 teaspoon.
Feel free to use any seafood you like, but make sure to give it enough time of cooking if it needs.
You could make the seafood and the veggies ahead of time, by rinse them and store it in the refrigerator until boiling time.
