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Seafood Boil Recipe
Seafood boil, shrimp boil, crab boil, and crawfish boil are my favorite summer recipes. I love seafood, especially when they are coated with a spicy butter sauce with homemade seasonings.
It’s a great tradition to have friend and family together, sit around a big table and savor a delicious boiled seafood dinner.
This is the best and ultimate recipe just like New Orleans Louisiana, with a Cajun sauce that is fiery and addictive. This easy recipe took me only 30 minutes from start to finish.
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How to Make a Seafood Boil?
- Prepare the seasoning and the sauce in the recipe.
- Boil and cook all the ingredients together in a huge stock pot.
- Combine the seasoning sauce and the cooked seafood together.
Voila, you have the best summer dinner that you can enjoy with friends and family!
Ingredients for Seafood Boil
My recipe calls for the following ingredients:
- Homemade DIY seasonings with Old Bay seasoning, smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, ground black pepper, Louisiana hot sauce and sugar.
- Unsalted butter.
- Garlic.
- Seafood such as shrimp, crawfish and clams.
- Corn on the cob.
I skipped crab, potatoes, and smoked sausage but you should add them to the dish if you have the ingredients.
Tips for Seafood Boil
- Use a big pot to boil the seafood. If you don’t have a tall and deep pot, you may boil and cook the seafood in batches.
- You may serve the seafood boil in a bag, using 1 gallon plastic bag.
- If you have plastic bags, mix the seafood and the sauce in the bag.
Frequently Asked Question
Can I Cook Seafood Boil in an Oven?
Yes, you sure can. If you don’t want to boil the seafood, you can mix the raw seafood and the sauce together on a sheet pan.
Bake in the oven at 425°F (220°C) for 10 to 12 minutes or until all ingredients are cooked through.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 580 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with Seafood Boil?
This meal is best served with a crusty bread. French fries or sweet potato fries also goes well with it. For a summer dinner party, I recommend the following recipes.
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Seafood Boil (The Best Recipe!)
Ingredients
- 1 lb (500g) head-on and shell-on shrimp, rinsed
- 1 lb (500g) crawfish, rinsed
- 1 lb (500g) Manila clams, rinsed and scrubbed
- water (for boiling)
- 1 lemon (halved)
- 2 ears corn (cut off the cob into 2-inch pieces (5 cm))
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
- 2 heads garlic (peeled and minced)
- 2 tablespoons Louisiana hot sauce
Seafood Boil Seasonings
- 4 tablespoons Old Bay seasoning
- 2 tablespoons smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
- 2 1/2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- Rinse the shrimp with water, use a pair of scissors to cut off the mustache and legs. Set aside. Soak the crawfish in water and rinse a few times until the water becomes clear. Rinse and scrub the Manila clams. Drain and set aside.
- Combine all the ingredients of the Seafood Boil Seasoning in a bowl. Stir to mix well. Set aside.
- Fill a large stockpot halfway with water and bring to a boil. Add the lemon halves, follow by the shrimp, crawfish, Manila clams and corns. Cover the stockpot and cook the seafood and corns until they turn red or cooked through, about 2 minutes. Drain the seafood and corns, discard the water and lemon. Set aside.
- While the seafood is cooking, in a big skillet over medium heat, add the butter and stir in the minced garlic. Saute the garlic for 1 minute (not brown). Add the Seafood Boil Seasoning and Louisiana hot sauce. Stir to mix the spicy butter sauce well. Turn off the heat.
- Transfer the seafood and corn into the spicy sauce, stir to combine well. If you have a small skillet, mix the butter sauce and the seafood in two batches. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
Bee – THANK YOU for sharing this spectacular recipe, it is a WINNER! And I can’t wait to serve it to a big crowd after a successful test run for just the hubs and I. QUESTION – the sauce was a little gritty – I couldn’t quite get the spices to blend all the way in – any recommendations for that, or is that intended?
Yes, it’s supposed to be gritty a bit.
Omg!!! All I can say is ” finger-licking good”.. Bought live crawfish and tried this for the first time, and everyone loved it..Even my picky eater was able to enjoy the shrimp and crawfish… After trying this recipe, I don’t think I can ever buy a seafood boil from anywhere when I can make mine at home!! Thank you so much!
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Oh my this recipe was AWESOME. Everything blended well. My husband and I enjoyed it throughly. We added the potatoes and corn. Best part it was light on our stomachs Thank you so much.
Thank you!
Very delicious
We made this for 30 people and used lobster, crab and shrimp for the seafood. Everything turned out perfectly cooked. We poured everything onto a large island covered in layers of craft paper and that made an impressive presentation. Everyone raved about the food and it was fun to make. We will be making this again – it’s a new favorite!
This recipe is sooooo good, I tried it the other night and I cant stop making it !!
Hi Chelsea, thanks for trying my seafood boil recipe. Yes, this is the BEST seafood boil recipe ever, you can now open a restaurant. Please try more recipes on my site, they are all good: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/ :)
I added the potatoes and sausage, it was excellent, tastes just as good, or better, than the boils at Mr and Mrs Spicy Crab! Will be making this again, thanks for sharing this recipe!
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This recipe is perfect. I can’t get over how delicious it was. Thank you so, so much for sharing it.
Thanks for trying my recipe! Please try more recipes on my site.
Hi
Thanks for the recipe
I can’t get old bay seasoning and louisiana hot sauce, what can I use to substitute them?
So good! Definitely have to do this!
Just wanted to say thanks for NOT including sausage of any kind in your seafood boil. Whenever it’s added that’s all you can taste. Seafood is too delicate for sausage . If you must have sausage cook it separately.
Jane don’t add the sausage in with the seafood. When u mix seasoning to butter add the sausage too. Tried it and tasted amazing
Just in time for summer! Thanks Bee again for this wonderful seafood boil recipe.
What can you use if you can’t get crawfish? I live in Australia and we dont’ have crawfish here
Skip it or use yabbies, or just more shrimp.
This is DA BOMB! Is seafood boil the proper name for this food? I always thought it’s crawfish or boiling something since that’s what most restaurants named themselves. Are we missing some potatoes in this? This looks fantastic!
Thanks David, yes you can have potatoes and sausage. I opted out. :)