How To Eat Boiled Crawfish
Valerie Fraser Luesse, Author and Senior Travel Editor for Southern Living
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: 5-Star Recipes
Credit: Beth Dreiling Hontzas
Here's how to make quick work of the shell and get to those tasty morsels.
Grasp
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: Peel
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Hold crawfish on both sides of the tail joint, your thumbs on one side of the shell and your index fingers on the other.
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Twist and Snap
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: Peel
Credit: Illustration: Ryan Kelly
With a twisting motion, snap the head away from the tail. (Optional step for diehards: Suck the juice from the crawfish head.)
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Peel
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: Peel
Credit: Illustration: Ryan Kelly
Use your thumbs to peel away the shell from the widest part of the tail, pulling back from the center, just as you would peel a shrimp.
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Tug
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: Tug
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Hold the tip of the tail and gently tug out the tender meat. Enjoy! (Don’t live on the bayou? Order online at lacrawfish.com.)
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Recipes
How To Eat Boiled Crawfish: 5-Star Recipes
Credit: Beth Dreiling Hontzas
Recipe: Crawfish Boil
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Recipe: Crawfish Étouffée
Recipe: Crawfish Jambalaya
Try out some of our favorite crawfish recipes.