Cajun Seafood Boil

This Cajun Seafood Boil recipe is easy, simple, and delicious. Needing only a few steps to recreate. The seafood-crabs, shrimps, and mussels are boiled for a few minutes in salted water. While creating the sauce made of oil, butter, garlic, cajun seasoning, oyster sauce, brown sugar, and some of the broth used to boil the seafood. Mix these together seasoning with salt and pepper, adding in the squid and corn. Then garnished with spring onions. Try out Yummy Kitchen’s version of the “Louisiana cajun Seafood Boil recipe”.

Cajun Seafood Boil Recipe :

Ingredients

• 1 kilo crabs
• 1 kilo shrimp
• 1 kilo mussels
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 block (200 grams) butter 
• 2 bulbs garlic, minced
• 6 tablespoons cajun seasoning
• 1/4 cup oyster sauce
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/2 cup seafood broth (from the boiled seafood)
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 500 grams squid
• 2 pcs. boiled sweet corn (cut into serving size)
• Chopped spring onion for garnish

Steps:

1. In a pot ⅓ or halfway filled with water, add in some salt before placing in the crabs. Cover and boil for 5 – 8 minutes. Take it out from the pot to set aside.
2. Add in the shrimp and cook for 3 minutes uncovered. Then take it out and set aside. Repeat with the mussels, cooking until the shells open. Reserve some of the broth/water for later.
3. In another pan, add in oil and melt the butter. Cook in the garlic until aromatic before mixing in cajun seasoning, oyster sauce, brown sugar, and ½ of the seafood broth(made earlier).
4. Simmer till it slightly thickens. Add in salt and pepper to taste. Add in the squid and cook these for 1 minute before adding the pre-boiled seafoods (shrimps, crab, and mussels), and corn as well.
5. Give this a good mix, cooking for 2 – 3 minutes before serving. Garnish with some spring onions.

How to make cajun seafood boil?

Create the broth by cooking the seafood in a pot seasoned with salt. Cooking them separately with the crabs boiled and taken out, before adding the shrimps, cooking these till it turns orange then taking these out again, and finally cooking the mussels till everything opens up. Take these aside to cool, keeping the leftover ‘broth’ or ‘soup’ to be used later on. Then make the Cajun Butter Sauce for seafood boil by melting butter and heating some oil in a pan, cooking a lot of minced garlic till aromatic, add in the cajun seasoning, oyster sauce for a richer texture, brown sugar for some sweetness, and half of the seafood broth made earlier to dilute the sauce. Let this simmer till it feels thicker, give it a taste and add some salt and pepper. Add in the squids, letting it cook just for a short while before adding back the parboiled seafoods, and parboiled corn. Give these a good mix to make sure everything is covered with the sauce. Take the pan off the heat to avoid over cooking then garnish with some green onions for pops of color.

Questions:

• Other ingredients to add :

To make a more interesting Crab and Shrimp boil, add in your choice of different meats. Some add sausages or hotdogs to make a “Cajun Shrimp and Sausage Boil recipe”, others add a bit more vegetables as filler and a more healthier version like potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, carrots for some “Boiled Cajun Potatoes”.

• Different flavorings to use :

While you can use your usual mix of cajun seafood boil seasoning, try to take it up a notch by adding a few more ingredients to make it even more interesting. Give it more zest with half a cup or more of lemon or any citrus fruit juice with some whole black peppers in your cajun seafood boil sauce to make a “Boiling Crab Lemon Pepper shrimp recipe”. You can also add some spice by adding chillies and other peppers, even hot sauce in your cajun sauce for seafood boil to make a “Cajun Spicy Seafood Boil recipe”

• Using different parts of the crab?

While the recipe calls for a whole crab to be added. This is simply because its a smaller soft shelled crab, for bigger grabs, it’s best to chop these to pieces to make it easier to cook, as well as absorb more of the flavor. An example would be “Cajun Seafood Boil recipe with Crab Legs” using big crab legs instead of the whole body, sometimes this would also depend if you prefer only a specific part like the claws or the head/body.

• Difference between a boil and a gumbo?

A gumbo typically uses meats like chicken while a ‘boil’ usually call for seafood. Though there are some instances that seafood is mixed with gumbos like the “Seafood Gumbo with Corn”. Gumbos are also closer to stews and are typically made indoors compared to a boil which is seen as an outdoors summer dish.

• The difference between a boil and a jambalaya?

Cajun seafood boil ingredients are close to those of a jambalaya, being served beside rice. While the Jambalaya or Cajun Jambalaya and Seafood Boil is cooked with rice making it flavorful and wonderfully colored.

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• Garlic Buttered Shrimp with Sprite
• Chili Garlic Shrimp
• Garlic Buttered Crab and Shrimp
• Shrimp Alfredo Recipe
• Shrimp Teriyaki
• Ginisang Sayote with Shrimp and Pork (sautéed chayote with shrimp and pork)

Cajun Seafood Boil Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo alimango
• 1 kilo hipon
• 1 kilo tahong
• 2 kutsarang mantika
• 1 bloke (200 gramo) mantikilya 
• 2 piraso ng bawang, tinadtad
• 6 kutsarang cajun seasoning
• 1/4 tasa oyster sauce
• 4 kutsarang kayumangging asukal
• 1/2 tasa seafood broth (tubig na ginamit sa pagkulo ng seafood)
• Asin at paminta panlasa
• 500 gramo pusit
• 2 pirasong binakulong mais (hiniwa ng maliliit)
• Hiniwang dahon ng sibuyas pang dekorasyon

Paano Lutuin :

1. Punuin ng ⅓ o kalahati ng tubig ang palayok, lagyan ng asin bago isama ang mga alimango. Takpan at pakuluin ng 5 – 8 minuto. Tanggalin at itabi.
2. Ilagay ang mga hipon at lutuin ng 3 minuto na hindi nakatakip. Tanggalin at itabi. Ulitin ito sa mga tahong at lutuin hanggang bumukas ang mga kabibi. Wag tapunin ang tubig na ginamit pangkulo.
3. Sa ibang kawali, lagyan ng mantika at mantikilya. Lutuin ang bawang hanggang mabango, haluan ng cajun seasoning, oyster sauce, asukal, at ½ ng seafood na sabaw.
4. Pakuluin hanggang kumapal. Dagdagan ng asin at paminta. Lutuin ang pusit ng 1 minuto bago isama ang mga linutong mga seafood kanina (hipon, alimango, at tahong), isama din ang mais. 
5. Haluin ng mabuti, lutuin ng 2 – 3 minuto bago ihanda. Dekorasyonan ng hiniwang dahon ng sibuyas.