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Fried Crawfish Tails

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Category: Seafood

 Ingredients List

  • ----------------------------------CRAWFISH----------------------------------
  • 1 lb Crawfish tails, peeled,
  • -- and deveined
  • 1/2 c Sherry
  • 1 1/2 c Flour
  • 2 lg Eggs
  • 1 pn Salt
  • 12 oz Beer, dark
  • 1 ds Pepper, cayenne
  • Pepper (to taste)
  • Salt (to taste)
  • Oil (for deep fat frying)

 Directions

SAUCE
2 lg Egg yolks
1 tb Juice, lemon
1/2 ts Mustard, dry
1/4 ts Sauce, Worcestershire
1 ds Tabasco
3/4 c Oil
1 tb Water, hot
1 tb Sherry
1 ts Chives, minced
1 ts Ketchup
1 ds Pepper, cayenne
Pepper (to taste)
Salt (to taste)

Crawfish:

Marinate the tails in sherry for an hour or more. 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. Drain tails and roll in
remaining flour. Shake off excess and dip in batter. Fry in hot oil until
golden.

Sauce:

Beat the yolks with lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire and Tabasco.
Slowly drizzle in oil to form mayonnaise base. Add hot water to stabilize
the sauce. Fold in remaining ingredients and correct seasoning. Serve with
hot crawfish tails.



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