Fried Crawfish Tails

18 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 pound crawfish tails peeled, deveined
  • 1/2 cup sherry
  • 1 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 12 ounces beer, dark
  • 1 dash black pepper cayenne
  • 2 large egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon juice lemon
  • 1/2 teaspoon prepared mustard dry
  • 1/4 teaspoon sauce
  • 1 dash red hot pepper sauce
  • 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 tablespoon sherry
  • 1 teaspoon chives minced
  • 1 teaspoon ketchup
  • 1 dash black pepper

Directions

  1. 1
    Marinate the tails in sherry for an hour or more.
  2. 2
    Meanwhile, mix the cup of flour, eggs, salt and cayenne until smooth and slowly add beer to make the batter the consistency of pancake batter.
  3. 3
    Drain tails and roll in remaining flour.
  4. 4
    Shake off excess and dip in batter.
  5. 5
    Fry in hot oil until golden.
  6. 6
    Beat the yolks with lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire and Tabasco.
  7. 7
    Slowly drizzle in oil to form mayonnaise base.
  8. 8
    Add hot water to stabilize the sauce.
  9. 9
    Fold in remaining ingredients and correct seasoning.
  10. 10
    Serve with hot crawfish tails.

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