Crawfish Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

• 34 c butter or oleo
• 2 large onions minced
• 1 bell pepper minced
• 1 c celery chopped
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 1 Tbsp parsley
• 1 lb crawfish tails coarsely chopped
• 12 loaf stale French bread
• 1 12 tsp salt
• 12 tsp Tabasco sauce
• 1 egg
• 5 medium bell peppers halved

Directions

1. Saute onions bell pepper celery and garlic in butter or oleo until light brown
2. Add parsley crawfish tails and French bread that has been soaked in water and squeezed out
3. Add salt and Tabasco sauce Blend thoroughly Remove from heat Add egg and blend
4. Remove seeds and membranes from bell pepper halves and cook in boiling salted water about 5 minutes Drain
5. Pile crawfish mixture into pepper shells Garnish with whole crawfish tails if desired
6. Bake at 350 for 15 to 20 minutes
7. Makes 10 stuffed halves about 5 servings