Crawfish Cheese Pie À La Mode

Ingredients

• 1 lb. crawfish tails
• 2 ounces crawfish fat
• 3 cups cooked rice
• 1 cooked pie crust
• 1 can cream of shrimp soup (do not dilute)
• 1 cup water
• 5 ounces grated cheddar cheese
• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup green onions, finely chopped
• 5 stalks celery, finely chopped
• 1/4 teaspoon each red, black and white pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco
• salt to taste

Instructions

1. melt butter and saute green onions and celery for 15 minutes
2. add crawfish fat and cook 5 minutes
3. add soup, black, red, white pepper and Tabasco
4. cook 5 minutes and add crawfish tails, rice and water, stir
5. make sure mixture is not too dry or too runny
6. add a little water if it is too dry.
7. it must be thick enough to stand as a slice of pie
8. salt to taste
9. stir in cheese and put in pie shell
10. bake at 350 degrees F. for 15 minutes

Serves 4 to 6.

Bon appetite!
NT