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Crawfish Pie

Name: Crawfish Pie
Prep time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: Cajun/Creole
Ingredients: 1 lb crawfish tails; 1 medium onion, diced; 2 stalks celery, diced; 1 green bell pepper, diced; 3 cloves garlic; 1 can (10.5 oz) cream of mushroom soup; 4 tbsp butter; 2 tsp Creole seasoning; 1/4 tsp cayenne; 1 double-crust pie crust (homemade

Crawfish Pie reads richness 6.9, umami 5.2 and marine & briny 4.1 on Palate's 0–10 flavor X-ray — a Cajun/Creole main, about 1 hr 5 min. Measured from the recipe itself: ingredients and technique.

The flavor X-ray — six axes, 0–10

Umami & Savory — 6.0 / 10
Sweet & Fruity — 2.4 / 10
Sour & Bright — 0.8 / 10
Bitter & Earthy — 4.0 / 10
Rich & Fat — 7.0 / 10
Aromatic & Spice — 4.6 / 10

The measured notes (of 18)

Richness 6.9 · Umami 5.2 · Marine & Briny 4.1 · Allium 4.0 · Earthy 3.8 · Salinity 3.4 · Heat 2.8 · Sweetness 2.3 · Herbaceous 2.2 · Warm Spice 2.0 · Bitterness 1.4 · Floral 0.8 · Sourness 0.7 · Funk & Ferment 0.6

What's in it (10)

1 lb crawfish tails
1 medium onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
3 cloves garlic
1 can (10.5 oz) cream of mushroom soup
4 tbsp butter
2 tsp Creole seasoning
1/4 tsp cayenne
1 double-crust pie crust (homemade

Time & effort: about 1 hr 5 min (35 min active) · effort: medium

Nutrition (per 100 g, engine-estimated): 124.8 kcal, 6.7 g protein, 7.1 g fat, 8.3 g carbs

Dietary: Contains meat · Contains seafood · Contains dairy — engine-derived; double-check anything allergy-critical.

How it's cooked (3 steps)

Sauté the trinity in butter, add garlic and crawfish tails, and stir in cream of mushroom soup with Creole seasoning and cayenne, cooking until the filling thickens.
Pour the filling into a pastry-lined pie dish, cover with a second crust, crimp the edges, and cut vents.
Bake at 375°F until the crust is deep golden brown.

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Crawfish Fettuccine — Cajun/Creole
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Polvo à Lagareiro — Portuguese
Jamaican Pepper Shrimp — Jamaican
Crawfish Étouffée — Cajun/Creole

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Every number above is Palate's engine-measured estimate, computed from this recipe's ingredients and techniques — not human-tasted ratings or reviews.