Hello, my name is Chris Clime. I am Chef at de Cuisine at Acadiana Restaurant, in Washington DC in the heart of the Penn Quarter and we are showing how to make Louisiana crawfish etouffee little bit Aunt Boo's style. The etouffee has finished simmering so now we are going to show how we do this here at Acadiana. So when you come and dine and well show you how we prepare the dish. This is what the etouffee looks like after weve cooked it for about 45 minutes, roughly 45, or maybe an hour. You see right here, very rich color, very dark. You dont want it to look red like as that tomato color into it. Its more as if its been roasting and you can see has a nice deep rich dark brown color, okay. Lot of the fat from the head is going to help too. Now that we have our fresh crawfish meat, so, Im going to go and switch. We are going to put this in the back here and then we will are go ahead and we are going to turn our Saute Pan on. Now I am waiting for that to get hot. I am going to show you we have got our fresh crawfish tail meat. We have got it, we have got as much fat from the heads as we can. We have butter, Creole seasoning a little bit of parsley and little bit of cayenne, we use for garnish. While weve been doing this, we have also steamed a little Mahatma long grain rice and the Mahatma Rice is the rice that we get from Abbeville Louisiana, its a Louisiana style rice. Standard cooking method 2:1 water to rice. Now our pan is hot, we are going to add our butter, like a knob of butter. You can see that as we start to saut, you hear that light applause thats what you want to hear. You can hear that noise there, thats great. We are going add our fresh crawfish tail meat. We are going to add a little bit of Creole seasoning. We are going add a touch of heat to it. A little bit of cayenne we have added already. We are going to add a little bit Tabasco too, just a touch. You dont necessarily have to do that, it all depends on how spicy you want it. We are going to go ahead. Saut the crawfish, you dont want to saut them too much. Can you see the nice colors coming out and thats what you want, but we dont want them to be hard because they are already cooked. So we are just kind of warming them through. Then we are going to go ahead and add a little bit fresh parsley and then we take a ladle and we are going to ladle some of the etouffee into here. So the etouffee. Okay the etouffee is here. Great, turn, heat down little bit. You dont want to add too much, you really want to have a nice as really etouffee means smothered, so we have a nice smothered crawfish here. Little bit more of the sauce and now we are ready to put it in the plate. We have got our rice ready, we are ready. Now, we are going to go ahead and we are going to plate the etouffee. Let me do at the restaurant -- its a little trick here. We have a little cup here, a little aluminum cup inverted with our fresh rice as you see. So, if you want impress some guests at the house, whatever you do in the family style. You do it inverted casserole, dish or anything. This is nice because its very portable. So you can put this over on top of the rice and then you can pour this over on top as we see, we just kind of nice. See how nice the consistency is? Really nice and rich, it really is just nice smothered. When you go and put that over, you get the perfect amount in here. Obviously I have had little bit of practice in this dish.

So we have got the perfect amount here. I am going to put my hands in the side, put that over here. This is what we got. Now before we sell it, we are going to go ahead and take that aluminum off. So we have our Louisiana crawfish etouffee here, well take our little, this is our little trick here off, which protects the rice and so you still have the beautiful rice here. We will garnish with some fresh cayennes and little bit of parsley. And in here we have right now, we have finished. We have our Louisiana crawfish etouffee, Aunt Boo's style.