For those of us that love loaded baked potatoes, this is the recipe you have been waiting for. This is no simple baked potato however. It is loaded with a cajun flavored topping including shrimp.
Ingredients:
4 large Russet potatoes, cleaned
½ pound shrimp, cleaned and deveined, leave tails on
½ cup crawfish tail meat
2 tbsp cooking oil
2 tbsp butter
Olive oil
Cajun Seasoning, I prefer Slap Yo Mama, amount to taste
Sherry Cream sauce
8 ounces Italian cheese blend, 6 blend
2 cloves garlic, freshly minced
2 medium shallots, diced
¼ cup Brandy, flambeed
2 cups Sherry Wine
1 cup stock from shrimp
¼ cup crawfish juice, from the crawfish package
1 cup heavy whipping cream
½ cup crawfish tail meat
½ cup diced green onions
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 400*
Wash each potato, coat lightly with olive oil and coarse salt, then wrap in a sheet of foil and bake until the potato is tender
In a saucepan, on medium heat, add in half the butter and the minced garlic, toss in the shallots and stir lightly, simmer for 3 minutes
In a saucepan, on medium heat, add in half the butter and the minced garlic, toss in the shallots and stir lightly, simmer for 3 minutes
