Recipe - Crawfish Bisque

GRAVY
1 cup Cooking oil
2 lg Onions
4 Ribs celery
4 Cloves garlic
2 One half cup Ground crawfish tails
9 cup Hot water
5 teaspoon Salt
2 cup Flour (about)
6 Green onions
One fourth Bell pepper
10 Sprigs of parsley
One half Of crawfish fat
2 teaspoon Red pepper
4 teaspoon (heaping) Tomato paste

STUFFING FOR HEADS
Rest of ground crawfish tail
3 Ribs celery
One fourth Bell pepper
4 Cloves garlic
10 Sprigs parsley
2 cup Dry bread crumbs (or more)
2 teaspoon Red pepper
2 lg Onions
6 Green onions
Rest of crawfish fat
One fourth cup Cooking oil
2 Eggs, beaten
4 teaspoon Salt
Flour

Use 1 sack crawfish (about 40 lbs.) Scald crawfish in almost boiling
water for about 15 min. Drain and cool. Peel crawfish and save the fat in a
separate bowl. Clean abt. 200 heads to stuff.

To make gravy: Grind onions, celery bell pepper, garlic and parsley. Make
roux with oil and flour. Stir constantly until browned. Add ground
seasonings. Cook on low fire abt. 30 min. Add tomato paste and crawfish
fat. Cook abt. 30 min more. Add hot water and let cook on low fire. Add
ground crawfish tails, add salt and pepper. Cook on high fire abt. 20 min.
Add baked crawfish heads. Cook on low fire abt. 1 hr. More hot water may be
added if too thick. Stir carefully. Serve in soup bowls over rice.

To make stuffing for heads: Grind onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and
parsley. Fry crawfish and ground seasonings in hot cooking oil; cool. Add
cawfish fat and eggs. Mix in bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Stuff heads.
Dip the stuffed part of head in flour and place on cookie sheet. Bake for
20 min in 400 F. oven.

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