Lunch: Mini-Crawfish Pies

Try this unique and flavorful seafood appetizer and impress all of your friends!

Ingredients

1 lb frozen crawfish tails, thawed
1 large yellow onion, diced
4 stalks celery, diced
2 small carrots, diced
1 bunch scallions, diced
1 green pepper, diced
2 shallots, diced
4 cups chicken stock, heated
6 tablespoons flour
6 tablespoons butter, sliced, plus 8 tablespoons cubed
3 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 (3 oz) package cream cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 °F. Soften cream cheese and 8 tablespoons cubed butter and blend well. Stir in flour and chill for one hour in refrigerator. Separate dough; reserving 1/3 for pie tops, and using 2/3 for pie crust bottom. From pie-crust bottom portion of dough, create dough balls approximately 1 in diameter and place into bottom of muffin tin cups, flattening to form crust bottoms. Bake crusts only until golden brown.

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