Recipe: Yummy Old Fashioned Low Country Boil

Old Fashioned Low Country Boil. Fill a large pot with enough water to cover all of the ingredients. Add the crab boil and bring to a boil. Adjust the crab boil to suit your taste.

Add to potatoes in boiling water. 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. You can cook Old Fashioned Low Country Boil using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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. You need 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. You need 2 stalks of celery, chopped.
8. It's 1 of small onion, chopped.
9. It's 2 clove of garlic, roughly chopped.
10. You need 1 packages of shrimp, crawfish, crab boil.
11. Prepare 2 tbsp of cayenne pepper (optional).
12. You need of butter.

Passed down from generation to generation, the low country shrimp boil is best enjoyed outdoors with friends. Cleanup is minimal if you skip plates and serve on paper-covered tables. Just drain the shrimp and pile high where everyone can dig in. 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.

Old Fashioned Low Country Boil step by step

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..

It's a perfect balance of meat to vegetables all with a zippy Old Bay taste. Drain, and let cool for a few minutes. Then, in a large bowl, add the corn, potatoes, shrimp, sausage, melted butter, olive oil, Old Bay, garlic, juice from ½ lemon, salt, and parsley, toss until well coated. Add keilbasa, potatoes, onion, and corn. Rollin' Tide Boil Co. is the Original on-site provider of Low Country Shrimp & Crab Boils for Port Aransas, Mustang Island, & North Padre Island.