Crawfish Chili

Title: Crawfish Chili
Categories: Cajun Main dish Meats Fish
Servings: 16

2 lb Lean ground beef
2 lb Crawfish tails
1 t Garlic, chopped fine
2 t Salt
1 T Soy sauce
1 t Cayenne pepper
1 t Dried mint
1 T Dried parsley
3 T Chili powder
1 cn (8 oz) tomato sauce
1 c Dry white wine
1 c Water
1 t Lemon or lime juice
1 c Chopped onions
1 T Bacon drippings

Brown meat in bacon drippings. Combine all other ingredients
with meat and bring to a boil. Simmer for a few hours.

From Justin Wilson’s “Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook”

Note: I have used deveined and peeled shrimp for this dish with great success in place of the mudbugs!