Seafood Boil – Jumbo Shrimp, Crab Legs, Sweet Sausage, Corn on the Cob and Red Potatoes – Its Amazing !!!

Pressure Cooker, Sausage, Seafood

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Ingredients

Seafood Boil Flavor Liquid

6 cups water

1 tablespoon Zatarain’s shrimp and crab boil concentrate.

2 tablespoons Old Bay seasoning

1 tablespoon kosher salt

1 tablespoon paprika

3 lemon wedges

2 quarters of an onion (Spanish Onion or Vidalia)


1 Flavor Sachet

1 cheesecloth cut into a large square, and one piece of string or butcher twine to tie the knot.

1 thick slice of lemon

A garlic bulb cut in half

2-3 sprigs of thyme

2 sage leaves

2 bay leaves


Seafood Boil

3 cups, Red Potatoes cleaned and halved.

6 Corn on the Cob (about 4-inch pieces).

6 Sweet Fennel Sausages, precooked and cut into 1” pieces

1.5 lbs of Snow Crab Clusters (approx. 4-5 clusters)

1 to 1.5 lb of Large to Jumbo Shrimp – Cleaned and rinsed, shell on

Directions

Directions for Seafood Boil:
Create our flavor liquid by turning Instant Pot on by pressing the Sauté button.

Add to the pot – water, Zatarain’s shrimp and crab boil concentrate, Old Bay seasoning, salt, paprika, flavor sachet, onion quarters and bring to a rolling boil.

Layering process begins! ~ Add red potatoes to the liquid and cook for five minutes.

PROCESS ALERT!!! After potatoes are added, take a large spoon or ladle and remove about 2-3 cups our flavor liquid from the instant pot and add it to the shrimp and crab in the large bowl so they soak up those flavors. This also allows more room in the Pressure cooker for the solid contents (sausage, corn, crab and shrimp), bring liquid down to at least the 8 cup mark on the Instant Pot. (See Video).

Next, add in this order: the sausage, corn on the cob (give a stir), crab leg clusters, shrimp, then the lower portions of the snow crab legs and claws (see video).

Apply the pressure cooker lid and lock in place; set the pressure cooker to manual and 5 min, seal the vent on top.

After the 5 minutes are up, VENT the pressure cooker and remove the Lid. Please pay attention to time as you do not want to overcook the shrimp and crab!

Remove Contents to a large bowl and ladle on some extra Seafood Boil Liquid and serve! Or remove contents to a Traditional Picnic Newspaper spread on a table top! And… ~ ENJOY !!!

Want the Professional Look?!?!?!Before you serve; in this order: add additional lemon wedges then dust with additional Paprika and Dry Parsley, the colors (Red and Green) from these 2 herbs and spices look and taste super amazing on the Seafood Boil! Its gives the WOW factor !

Additional Comments:

Don’t forget the onion in the pot, it’s awesome with the sausage!

The seafood boil liquid can be used for additional juice or for an additional delicious spicy dip when serving.

Serving suggestions: cocktail sauce, tartar sauce, OR my favorite; a Remoulade Sauce (Cajun style mayo, there are different variations of this sauce).

I do enjoy garlic bread or Texas toast with this as well.

Interested in the Super Scooper Colander you saw me use to remove all of the contents with? I use it all of the time to remove contents from the pressure cooker.

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