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Spicy Crawfish Balls

Spicy Crawfish Balls

Sherri Carlson
These Crunchy Spice Crawfish Balls are Great as an Appetizer. Serve them with the Chipotle Ranch Sauce at Your Next Gathering.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • Food Processor

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pound Crawfish Tails, Shrimp, or Crab Cooked, Peeled & Thawed
  • 1 tbsp Louisiana Crawfish, Shrimp and Crab Boil Seasoning Comes in Bags
  • 1 tsp Lemon Juice Fresh Squeezed

Vegetables - Food Processor

  • 4 cloves Garlic Crushed
  • 1 Onion, Large Chopped
  • 1/2 cup Green Onions Chopped

Ball Mixture Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup Panko Breadcrumbs, Italian Seasoned
  • 2 Eggs, Large
  • 1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 1/4 Parsley Chopped

Ball Coating Ingredients

  • All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder Optional
  • 3 cups Peanut or Vegetable oil for Frying

Instructions
 

  • Heat a saucepan or skillet on medium-high heat. Add the drained crawfish and seasoning mixture to the skillet and warm through.
  • Remove from heat and stir in lemon juice. Set this aside to cool.
  • Add the chopped vegetables to the food processor and chop them into smaller pieces. Since these are being formed into a ball, the pieces need to be small.
  • Remove the veggies from the food processor and place into a large bowl.
  • Strain the crawfish mixture well. Add the crawfish mixture to the food processor and use the "pulse" feature to carefully chop the crawfish. The crawfish needs to be on the chunky side.
  • Place the strained crawfish into the bowl with the veggies.
  • Add all of the remaining ingredients; bread crumbs, eggs, Worcestershire sauce, and hand-chopped parsley into the bowl with the crawfish and veggies.
  • Use your hands to mix all the ingredients together well. It needs to be mixed together well to form a ball.
  • Heat the oil to 350 degrees. A Candy Thermometer will work for this.
  • Form the mixture into golf-ball sized balls. Roll in flour and set on a cookie sheet. If desired, add 1 tsp of Garlic Powder to the flour.
  • Carefully add 4 balls to the hot oil. If you put too many in at a time, the hot oil will splash out.
  • Fry the balls for 3-4 minutes or until they are nicely browned.
  • Carefully remove them from the oil with a slotted spoon and place them on a cookie sheet lined with paper towels

Notes

This recipe was originally created by Kim Seghers
Thanks for the Great Recipe Kim!
Keyword appetizer, crab balls, crawfish balls, crawfish; seafood,