Easy Crawfish Cream Sauce
This Crawfish Cream Sauce is bursting with crawfish tail meat and sautéed aromatics that swim in a luxurious, flavor-loaded sauce. Serve this insanely delicious sauce on top of fish, steak, chicken or toss it with pasta, or simply enjoy it with rice. This drool-worthy, seafood cream sauce can be enjoyed in various ways!
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoonsunsalted butter
- ½ mediumyellow onion, diced
- 1green bell pepper, diced
- 1stalk celery, finely diced
- 1 tablespoongarlic paste
- 1 tablespoontomato paste
- 2 tablespoonsall-purpose flour
- 1can rotel fire-roasted diced tomatoes & green chilies
- 1 tablespooncreole cajun seasoning– homemade or store-bought
- 1 tablespoonsteen’s pure cane syrup (or dark corn syrup as sub)
- 2 teaspoonsworcestershire sauce
- 1 ½ cupsseafood stock – (we use this one)
- ½ cupheavy whipping cream
- 1 lbcleaned louisiana crawfish tail meat – (we use this one)
- fresh chopped parsley, for garnish- optional
Directions
- 1
In a large skillet over medium heat, add the butter. When melted, add the onion, bell pepper, and celery. Sauté the trinity mixture until tender and golden brown, about 5-6 minutes. Then stir in the garlic and tomato paste and continue cooking until the paste dissolves and is fragrant, about 1 minute.
- 2
Sprinkle the flour over the veggies and stir to combine, stirring well until the flour dissipates, about 1-2 minutes. Then add the can of diced tomatoes, Cajun seasoning, syrup, and worcestershire sauce- stirring well to fully combine. Gradually stir in the stock until combined. Let the stock simmer for 1-2 minutes. Then add the heavy cream and crawfish tail meat and stir well to thoroughly combine.
- 3
Reduce the heat to low and cover the skillet. Let the sauce cook until the crawfish cream sauce is smooth and has thickened a bit, about 10-15 minutes.
- 4
Stir in the chopped parsley and continue cooking for another 1-2 minutes for the flavors to meld. Taste the cream sauce and add more Cajun seasoning as needed to your desired taste.
- 5
Serve the crawfish cream sauce with rice, on top of grits, or alongside hearty main entrees (we recommend serving this cream sauce on top of our Blackened Catfish and/or with Cajun Dirty Rice for extra indulgence you won’t regret). Enjoy!