astray recipes: Shellfish boil

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Yield: 4 servings

Measure	Ingredient
½ cup	Mustard seeds
6 tablespoons	Coriander seeds
¼ cup	Whole allspice seeds
¼ cup	Dill seeds
2 teaspoons	Whole cloves
12 smalls	Dried red chilies crumbled,
	Or 1 tablespoon crushed red
	Pepper
16	Bay leaves
8 quarts	Water
1	Dozen small new potatoes,
	Scrubbed
2 larges	Onions, unpeeled, cut in
	Half crosswise
2	Lemons, halved
1¼ cup	Plus 1 tablespoon salt
¼ cup	Plus 1 tablespoon cayenne
1 large	Head garlic, cut in half
	Crosswise
1 pounds	Andouille sausage, cut into
1	Inch pieces
4	Ears fresh corn, shucked and
	Cut into thirds
2 pounds	Crawfish
5 pounds	Crabs, such as dungeness,
	Blue, stone, king or snow
	Crabs
2	(1 pound) lobsters
2 pounds	Shrimp, peeled and divined
2	Dozen littleneck, steamer,
	Razor, Pacific littleneck or
	Manila clams
1 cup	Melted butter, warm
2 tablespoons	Finely chopped parsley

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Place the first seven ingredients in cheesecloth and tie with butchers twine. Put the seasoning bag, water, potatoes, onions, lemons, 1¼ cups of the salt, ¼ cup of the cayenne, and garlic in a large stockpot. Bring the liquid to a boil, cover and boil for 15 minutes.

Add the sausage, corn, crawfish, and crabs. Using a long handled spoon, stir around and press the contents of the pot down well into the water. Cover the pot and return to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes.

Turn off the heat. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon salt and 1 tablespoon cayenne. Cover and let the boil stand for 10 minutes. Add the shrimp and clams. Continue to cook for 5 minutes. Drain.

Turn the shellfish boil on to news paper. Serve with melted butter.

Garnish with parsley.

Nutritional information per serving: xx calories, xx gm protein, xxx mg cholesterol, xx gm carbohydrate, xxx mg sodium, x gm fiber, xx gm fat (x gm sat, x gm mono, x gm poly), x mg iron, xx mg calcium, xx% of calories from fat.

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