An age-old meal that’s ideal for gatherings with family is this seafood boil. It’s enjoyable and tasty, and cleanup is simple. It tastes best when prepared outside and eaten at a picnic table with four to five layers of newspaper. Everything should be taken out of the pot, drained, and placed in the middle of the table. Assemble everyone and have pleasure in the meal. If there are any leftovers after everyone has finished their meal, collect them up, place them in the middle of the table, roll the newspaper up over them, and discard them. Cleanup is finished after washing the single pot. Enjoy and have fun.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 15 |
Ingredients
- 5 pounds new red potatoes
- 3 pounds kielbasa sausage, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 (8 fluid ounce) bottle liquid shrimp and crab boil seasoning
- salt to taste
- 12 ears fresh corn
- 4 lemons, halved
- 1 tablespoon diced green chile pepper, or to taste
- 10 pounds medium shrimp – peeled and deveined
- 12 blue crabs, cleaned
Instructions
- Fill a large, 40-quart pot half full with water; bring water to a full boil.
- Add potatoes, sausage, shellfish boil seasoning, and salt. Cook until potatoes are halfway cooked.
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- Stir in corn, lemons, and chile pepper; continue boiling until vegetables are tender. Turn off heat.
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- Mix in shrimp and crab. Cover the pot and let sit until shrimp are pink and crabmeat is opaque and flaky, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove vegetables and shellfish from the pot; drain well. Serve immediately.
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Reviews
Added more seafood
Variations, potatoes, onions, cor on the cob,, garlic, shrimp, crabs, lobster, parsley, lemon, anduille sausage, and brat wurst. My 10 year old granddaughter wanted some badly, so no hot stuff in it. Excellent recipe. Love the spices. Even added a bottle of dark beer during cooking.
Added some chicken bc my daughter doesnt eat the sausage….delicious!!!
we winter in texas and have access to fresh shrimp. we brought some back to SD for christmas and made a boil. we added brussel sprouts (it’s a texas thing), it was a tremendous hit.
WOW, this turned out great. This was just as good as our local chain restaurant. The family loved it and really pretty easy to make.
Nothing spectacular.
Awesome and easy – directions were easy and turned out perfect. I used Zatarains instead of the liquid seasoning – otherwise followed as is. Note: when this says 15 servings – it means it – not one of those where you get less than expected. We scaled back to 10 and ended up with way too much!!
Omitted the green chili pepper and used Cajun seasoning at the time I added the liquid boil. Also, when I cut down the recipe for 4, it said to get over two lbs of shrimp and 4 lbs of crab. We had SOOOOOO much left over. That is okay, recipe was great!!
Outstanding!
this recipe was great. I changed it around a little by adding some different kinds of seafood. My family really loved it.
I made this at home, and it was as good as the restaurant “Cajun Boil” version that is popular in our area. We all loved it!!!
I didn’t understand what was meant by “hot peppers to taste” but overall a good recipe.