Crawfish Pie

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There are respective recipes for crawfish pastry filling successful the Junior League of Lafayette's fashionable "Talk About Good!" cookbook, but this 1 comes highly recommended. It does instrumentality a spot of time, truthful beryllium patient.

The filling tin beryllium served implicit rice, etouffee-style, if desired.

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The dough needs to remainder astatine country somesthesia for a full of 1 1/2 hours. It tin beryllium divided into quarters, wrapped individually and frozen for up to 6 months. Leftover filling tin beryllium refrigerated up to 3 days.

Adapted from a look by Mrs. Carmen Montegut successful “Talk About Good!” by the Junior League of Lafayette, La. (Favorite Recipes Press, 1969 edition).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-12 (makes capable dough for 2 double-crust pies and capable filling for 2 pies)

For the crust

4 cups sifted flour, positive much for rolling
2 teaspoons salt
4 heaping tablespoons rootlike shortening, positive much arsenic needed
1 1/3 cups acold water, oregon much arsenic needed

For the filling

16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, chopped into pieces
1/2 cupful flour
2 cloves garlic
1 mean onion, chopped into tiny dice
2 bunches scallions, chopped (white and light-green parts, reserve and chop dark-green parts)
1 greenish doorbell pepper, seeded and chopped into tiny dice
1 cupful diced celery
3 tablespoons herb sauce
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Ground cayenne pepper
3 cups water, oregon much arsenic needed
3 pounds cooked, frozen/defrosted crawfish tails
2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with conscionable capable h2o to signifier a creamy consistency (slurry; optional)
1 clump parsley, chopped

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6, utilizing fractional the dough and fractional the filling')

Calories
440
Fat
21 g
Saturated Fat
11 g
Carbohydrates
39 g
Sodium
550 mg
Cholesterol
160 mg
Protein
22 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look by Mrs. Carmen Montegut successful “Talk About Good!” by the Junior League of Lafayette, La. (Favorite Recipes Press, 1969 edition).

Tested by Carol Cannizzaro.

Published August 10, 2017

Updated March 16, 2026