Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

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

---------------------STUFFING FOR HEADS--------------------------
Rest of ground crawfish tail
3 Ribs celery
1/4 Bell pepper
4 Cloves garlic
10 Sprigs parsley
2 c Dry bread crumbs (or more)
2 ts Red pepper
2 lg Onions
6 Green onions
Rest of crawfish fat
1/4 c Cooking oil
2 Eggs, beaten
4 ts 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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