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Broiled Crawfish with Horseradish Cocktail Sauce

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Broiled Crawfish with Horseradish Cocktail SauceBrian Finke

Recipe information

  • Total Time

    1 hour 20 minutes

  • Yield

    Makes 10 servings

Ingredients

Sauce:

1 1/2 cups bottled mild tomato chili sauce (such as Homade brand)
7 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
3 teaspoons (or more) prepared white cream-style horseradish

Crawfish:

12 whole cloves
4 Turkish bay leaves
1 3-ounce bag crawfish, shrimp, and crab boil (such as Zatarain's)
1 large onion, peeled, quartered
3 lemons, thinly sliced
3 celery stalks, cut into chunks
3 large garlic cloves, peeled
4 pounds fresh crawfish
Large bowl of ice cubes
Lemon wedges

Preparation

  1. For sauce:

    Step 1

    Whisk first 4 ingredients and 3 teaspoons horseradish in medium bowl to blend. Season to taste with freshly ground black pepper and more horseradish, if desired. Transfer to small bowl. DO AHEAD: Sauce can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.

  2. For crawfish;

    Step 2

    Combine first 7 ingredients in 10-to 12-quart large pot. Add 4 quarts water and 2 tablespoons salt. Bring to boil over high heat, stirring until salt dissolves. Boil 5 minutes. Add crawfish and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add ice cubes to pot to stop cooking. Let crawfish sit in cooking liquid 15 minutes.

    Step 3

    Using slotted spoon, transfer all crawfish to large bowl. Reserve 10 whole crawfish for garnish. Working with remaining crawfish 1 at a time, hold head and body with 1 hand and twist off tail portion with opposite hand. Discard head portion. Peel shell off tail and clean tail. Place tail in medium bowl. DO AHEAD: Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover and chill tails and reserved 10 crawfish.

    Step 4

    Divide cleaned crawfish evenly among 10 dishes. Garnish with whole crawfish.

    Step 5

    Serve crawfish with cocktail sauce and lemon wedges.

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