The Best Summer Seafood Boil with Homemade Seasoning

Ingredients

• 2.5 lbs blue crabs
• 1 lbs craw fish
• 1 lbs giant prawns
• 4 red skin potatoes
• 4 white potatoes
• 6 corn ears cut in half
• 4 lemons
• Salt
• Marinade
• 3 shallots/ 1 small red onion
• 2 cups cilantro
• 1 scotch bonnet/ habanero pepper
• 3 tsp bullion

Instructions

1. 1

   To prep the marinade, simply blend the cilantro, shallots, pepper, and bullion with one cup of water and set aside.

2. 2

   In a large pot with salted water, boil the potatoes until it is about half cooked. The time it takes depends on the size of your potatoes. With the size of potatoes I used it took 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, add the crabs, half of the marinade and boil for another 5 minutes on high heat with the pot covered.

3. 3

   After the crabs have cooked for 5 minutes, add in the corn, craw fish, prawns and the rest of the marinade and cook for 15 minutes still on high heat with the pot covered.

4. 4

   While the seafood is boiling on the stove, cut the lemons in half and broil under a hot grill for 5 minutes

5. 5

   Serve the seafood hot with the the grilled lemons on the side.