Cajun Seafood Crackers is a simple appetizer that I love.
Your choice of crackers, I prefer plain old saltines.
1 large onion quartered
1 qt. water
1 tbs. liquid crab boil
2 tsp. creole seasoning
1 lb crawfish, shrimp or crab meat (cooked)
Thinly sliced smoked sausage
Sliced jalapenos (optional)
Seafood Dipping Sauce
Boil onion in water and creole seasoning until tender. Turn off fire and
add liquid crab boil, let sit for about five minutes. Remove the onion
and let cool to handling temperature. Gently separate onion slices and
cut them to a size that will fit the crackers. Lay onions on paper
towels to dry them a little round side down. Place a baking pan on top
of them and let them cool several minutes. Now you can add the shrimp or
crawfish to the pot unless they are from a seafood boil since they would
be seasoned already. In that case just gently warm them. Do the same
thing with the sausage. (season the crab meat like this. ) Let the
seafood sit in the pot a few minutes and taste.
Lay crackers on a serving tray. Put a slice of onion on each cracker
round side down. Put a pinch of creole seasoning on each onion. Spoon a
little Seafood dipping sauce on each onion [the onion will help insulate
the sauce from the cracker so the cracker won't get soggy too fast].
Place a slice of sausage. Place a few shrimp, crawfish or some crab meat
on each. Place a slice of jalapeno on each (optional).
Note: Do different combinations leaving out the sausage, seafood and/or
jalapenos.