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Famous in the Low Country of Georgia and South Carolina. This boil is done best on an outdoor cooker. It has sausage, shrimp, crab, potatoes and corn for an all-in-one pot all-you-can-eat Add Old Bay Seasoning to taste, and bring to a boil.
Old Fashioned Low Country Boil is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Old Fashioned Low Country Boil is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have old fashioned low country boil using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Old Fashioned Low Country Boil:
- Prepare 2 lb medium sized shrimp
- Prepare 1 lb snow crab legs (or your choice of crab)
- Make ready 2 lb sausage (andouille, spicy your choice)
- Make ready 2 lb small red potatoes
- Make ready 2 loaf French bread
- Prepare 8 corn on the cob (fresh if possible but frozen is fine)
- Prepare 2 stalks celery, chopped
- Prepare 1 small onion, chopped
- Make ready 2 clove garlic, roughly chopped
- Get 1 packages shrimp, crawfish, crab boil
- Get 2 tbsp cayenne pepper (optional)
- Prepare butter
Heat a large pot of water over medium-high heat indoors or outside. Add the seafood seasoning to taste and bring to a boil. This is what Low Country Boil should always taste like perfect recipe. Low-Country Boil. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet.
Instructions to make Old Fashioned Low Country Boil:
- In a large stock pot, fill halfway with water. Add onions, garlic, celery, cayenne pepper, and bring to boil
- Rinse shrimp and crab. Set aside.
- Wash red potatoes. If they are small enough add whole to boiling water. Otherwise slice in half. Boil for 10 minutes.
- Slice ears of corn into two or three chunks. Add to potatoes in boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes.
- Add seasoning bag to boiling water.
- Slice sausage into chunks. Add to water. Reduce heat. Cook for 6 minutes.
- Add crab legs to pot. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. The crab legs should really just be heating up. Adjust the time based on their size.
- Add shrimp to pot. Cover and cook till pink and the shrimp have separated from their shells.
- Slice french bread. Butter and broil until lightly browned. Serve immediately with boil.
- At this point you can remove pot from direct heat and let food absorb more of the flavors from the water, or serve immediately.
- Serve with hot sauce, lemons, and butter.
The Low Country Boil traditionally includes catch-of-the-day shellfish, vegetables, slices of spicy sausage (like andouille or kielbasa) and an array of spices, tossed in a pot and boiled. Once it's finished cooking, it's drained, dumped onto a newspaper-topped table and eaten by hand. A low country boil is a unique thing in the south. It's a whole meal cooked in one big pot but it's also an event, like in "I'm going to a low country boil " which means you're going Next, is the corn which gets flavored with all the juices from the shrimp, sausage, and Old Bay seasoning…it's just heavenly. Passed down from generation to generation, the low country shrimp boil is best enjoyed outdoors with friends.
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