Sorry for the hiatus in posts! Since Halloween I haven't really cooked anything I felt was blog worthy until tonight- and this was was honestly just more fun to plate than anything. I just can't help myself when it comes to crawfish! So I cheated on this one and the crawfish were actually cooked saturday for the football game against LSU, but hey- left overs are fair game right? So I had a small internal struggle as to whether or not to cook the crawfish with noodles, zoodles, dirty rice etc... So I started searching the pantry for options. I found some polenta I had recently purchased at World Market and bingo! That was the ticket! So without further adieu....
Crawfish: cook/boil/steam with cajun seasonings how ever you like. Mine were already cooked, so I simply added butter to a saute pan and "re-heated" them. I set them aside in a bowl in the microwave to stay warm.
Polenta: Polenta is rather versatile and easy to cook with. you can find it in various forms, however, the most popular and easiest is all ready prepared. (comes in a plastic tube like chorizo) I opened the package and sliced the polenta into 1/4 in cakes. Then brushed them with melted butter and sprinkled a bit of Tony Chacere's seasoning on them. I then turned back on the stove and cooked the polenta in the same pan as the crawfish, to soak up that extra cajun seasoning. My husband said this made it a little on the salty side- so you may want to use a different pan, or not season them before. Cook the polenta for about 2-3 minutes each side, of until you notice it lightly brown on the under side. Flip and cook the other side. Be careful when flipping or handling polenta cakes as the light brown crust on the outside will flake off. When they are done plate and serve!
Green beans: The green beans were simply pole beans from Sam's Club. I simply steamed them with some garlic and onion and then sauteed them with some butter just for a little more flavor and to take away some of the crunch.
Now for the fun part! Assemble your plate! I chose to make it look like the crawfish were hiding behind a fortress of green beans ready to attack. Haha. you could do some many things! enjoy!
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