Recipe: Delicious Old Fashioned Low Country Boil

Old Fashioned Low Country Boil. Heat a large pot of water over an outdoor cooker, or medium-high heat indoors. Add Old Bay Seasoning to taste, and bring to a boil. Add shrimp, cover, and turn off heat.

We don't use plates, but spread out a disposable tablecloth. Drain liquid and dump the pot onto the cloth! These little low country boil foil packs are filled with all the things you might typically find in a low country boil - shrimp, potatoes, corn on the cob, andouille sausage and a sprinkle (or two!) of Old Bay seasoning. You can cook Old Fashioned Low Country Boil using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Low Country Boil

1. Prepare 2 lb of medium sized shrimp.
2. You need 1 lb of snow crab legs (or your choice of crab).
3. Prepare 2 lb of sausage (andouille, spicy your choice).
4. Prepare 2 lb of small red potatoes.
5. You need 2 loaf of French bread.
6. You need 8 of corn on the cob (fresh if possible but frozen is fine).
7. It's 2 stalks of celery, chopped.
8. You need 1 of small onion, chopped.
9. You need 2 clove of garlic, roughly chopped.
10. It's 1 packages of shrimp, crawfish, crab boil.
11. You need 2 tbsp of cayenne pepper (optional).
12. Prepare of butter.

It's a perfect balance of meat to vegetables all with a zippy Old Bay taste. This recipe for a low country boil is a simple one. This recipe is also called Beaufort stew or Frogmore stew and is so named for places in the Low Country of South Carolina. The smart cooking sidekick that learns what you like and customizes the experience to your personal tastes, nutritional needs, skill level, and more.

Old Fashioned Low Country Boil instructions

1. In a large stock pot, fill halfway with water. Add onions, garlic, celery, cayenne pepper, and bring to boil.
2. Rinse shrimp and crab. Set aside..
3. Wash red potatoes. If they are small enough add whole to boiling water. Otherwise slice in half. Boil for 10 minutes..
4. Slice ears of corn into two or three chunks. Add to potatoes in boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes..
5. Add seasoning bag to boiling water..
6. Slice sausage into chunks. Add to water. Reduce heat. Cook for 6 minutes..
7. Add crab legs to pot. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. The crab legs should really just be heating up. Adjust the time based on their size..
8. Add shrimp to pot. Cover and cook till pink and the shrimp have separated from their shells..
9. Slice french bread. Butter and broil until lightly browned. Serve immediately with boil..
10. At this point you can remove pot from direct heat and let food absorb more of the flavors from the water, or serve immediately..
11. Serve with hot sauce, lemons, and butter..

Drain through a colander; discard the liquid. Serve on newspaper or a platter. Heat a large pot of wheat ale (or half wheat ale, half water) over an outdoor cooker, or medium-high heat indoors. Add Old Bay seasoning, butter and lemons, halved, and bring to a boil. Add keilbasa, potatoes, onion, and corn.