Recipe#26726

Title: Cajun Boil

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Cajun Boil
  
4 tablespoons yellow mustard seeds
3 tablespoons coriander seeds
2 tablespoons whole allspice
2 tablespoons dill seeds
1 teaspoon whole cloves
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper
8 bay leaves
Salt and cayenne pepper (or liquid hot sauce) to taste
 
Combine all dry ingredients thoroughly. Place in a square of muslin
or cheesecloth and tie securely with string, like a large sachet
d'ipices. Add salt and cayenne or hot sauce to taste.  When water
for seafood is boiling, add the bag and boil for several minutes,
until the boiling liquid is tinted and seasoned, then add shellfish
and cook until done, depending on what you're using.
 
Yield: Enough crab boil seasoning for 5 pounds of seafood, sausages
and vegetables (corn on the cob, red potatoes and whole small
onions). You can add whatever you like. the potatoes are the best.
Zatarain's Crab Boil is the best ready-mixed seasonings. Just add
whatever seafood, meat and vegetables you like.