If you enjoy seafood with a southern feel you’re going to love this Instant Pot Crawfish Boil! The electric pressure cooker makes this recipe so easy!

Instant Pot Crawfish Boil
If you enjoy seafood with a southern feel you’re going to love this Crawfish Boil! This flavorful Instant Pot Crawfish Boil recipe is almost effortless to make when you use an electric pressure cooker. You don’t wind up with multiple pots and pans and you aren’t using a stove and heating up the kitchen either!
Equipment Needed
Ingredients
- 4 ears corn cut in half
- 6 red mini potatoes
- 3 tbsp Louisiana Crawfish Boil
- 1 cup water
- 4 lbs crawfish
Sauce Ingredients
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1/8 tsp cajun seasoning
- 1/4 tsp Old Bay seasoning
- 5 drops of hot sauce

Instructions
Place the crawfish into a ziploc bag with the cajun spices and seal.
Place the sealed bag in the fridge for 4-5 hours.
Set the pressure cooker to the saute setting.
Add the butter and minced garlic to the pot and saute, stirring often.
Add all other spices and combine.
Saute for 5 min.
Remove from the pan and set aside.
Put the corn and red potatoes into the pot and cover with water.
Add in the Crawfish Boil Mix.
Set the pressure cooker to cook on mnual high pressure for 5 minutes.
Once the cooking cycle has finished, do a quick pressure release and open the lid.
Check to be sure the potatoes are cooked.
Add in the crawfish and stir.
Place the lid back onto the pressure cooker and set to cook on manual high pressure for 3 minutes.
Once the cooking cycle has completed, do a quick pressure release and take the top off.
Add the garlic butter spice mix to the pot and stir to combine.
Serve immediately.

Instant Pot Crawfish Boil

Darci
Monday 31st of December 2018
Being from south Louisiana where crawfish is a yearly staple, I am assuming this recipe is not coming from someone who boils crawfish...we boil our crawfish live so when u say place 4 pounds of crawfish in a ziplock bag and place in refrigerator I have to assume you are using frozen crawfish tails from the store? And I can’t see fitting potatoes, corn and 4 pounds of actual live crawfish in a 6 quart IP. Please clarify the recipe. Thanks.
valmg
Saturday 5th of January 2019
I checked with the woman that created the recipe for me. The crawfish was purchased from local grocery stores in Arkansas. Kroger, Sams club. etc, bought by the pound from the butcher. Potatoes were mini red as stated. Corn in their region was not that fat, and obviously sizes could be different.
pat.
Monday 28th of May 2018
Crawfish, a dellicacy I discovered in New Orleans seafood market--a bag full boiled made quite the lunch.
Trina
Saturday 26th of May 2018
I have always wanted to try crawfish, especially since moving south to FL and spending so much time in SC. Everyone down here talks about how yummy they are, I'll have to give this recipe a shot!
Mellissa
Thursday 24th of May 2018
I love the fact that you can make literally anything in the instapot. I've actually been wanting one so bad. I hear this is also the season for crawfish so hats off to you on a great dish!
Vyjay Rao
Thursday 24th of May 2018
Electric cookers are great for single pot dishes. Though we are not into seafood, we do use the cooker for preparing single pot recipes that include rice and a lot of veggies.