How to Make Seafood Boil in a Bag | Get Cookin’ | Allrecipes

Nicole makes the juiciest, tastiest, and easiest seafood boil ever… using only a cooking bag.

0:00 Restaurant Recipe
1:06 Make the Sauce
3:36 Prep the Veggies
4:18 Bag ‘em Up
5:49 Taste Test

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons salt

2 pounds small red potatoes

3 ears corn, cut into thirds

1 head garlic, halved lengthwise

1 pound smoked sausage, cut into 2-inch pieces

1 small onion, chopped

1/3 cup white wine

1/2 cup water or stock

1 1/2 cups butter

1/4 cup hot sauce, such as Crystal® hot sauce

2 tablespoons lemon pepper

2 tablespoons seafood seasoning (such as Old Bay® Original)

1 1/2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning

1 tablespoon paprika

2 teaspoons granulated garlic

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

large oven or turkey cooking bags

8 ounces whole button mushrooms

4 large hard-boiled eggs

4 snow crab clusters

2 pounds shrimp

2 lemons, halved, divided

Directions:

Place potatoes in a large pot and cover with water by 3 inches. Add 2 teaspoons salt and bring to a boil; boil 5 minutes, then add corn and garlic. Return to a boil and cook until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.

Heat a deep skillet or saucepan over medium heat, add sausage, increase heat to medium-high, and cook until sausage is browned on both sides, about 3 minutes. Remove sausage from pan and set aside.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) with an oven rack set in the lower third of the oven.

Add onion to skillet with sausage drippings and cook, stirring constantly, until onion begins to soften, about 3 minutes. Stir in wine, and scrape the browned bits from the bottom of the pan; stir in water.

Add butter, hot sauce, lemon pepper, Old Bay, Cajun seasoning, paprika, granulated garlic, and cayenne to the skillet; reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring constantly, until butter is melted and everything is well combined. Remove from heat.

Open the oven bag in a large bowl or pot and hang the top edge over the top of the bowl to make filling easier. Place corn and potatoes in first. Add mushrooms, eggs, crab legs, shrimp, and sausage, and pour butter mixture over. Squeeze two lemon halves into the bag. Tie bag tightly at the top, allowing room for the bag to fill with steam. (Double bag if necessary to prevent punctures from the seafood.) Very carefully toss contents of bag to coat everything with sauce and place bag in a large baking dish.

Bake in the preheated oven until the bag has filled with steam, shrimp is opaque, and crab is cooked through, about 30 minutes.

Carefully cut bag open; squeeze remaining lemon over the top and enjoy.

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I’m doing seafood boil in a bag I’ve been doing Seafood boils all wrong Tik Tok has taught me that creating a seafood boil in a bag gives the food the chance to absorb the flavors and becomes super juicy and that must be true according to all these mukbang videos I’ve been watching they make it look so good my mouth just starts watering I want to create my own version but before I do I’ve got to go experience it in person we have a restaurant in town that literally serves up juicy Seafood in a bag it all starts with the same ingredients in traditional shrimp boil like sausage corn and potatoes but there are some unique finds like hard-boiled eggs they look so dang good you can choose from lemon pepper garlic butter and cajun seasoning or you can pick the Special Sauce that includes all three and that’s all me when it comes out the bag is fully blown up creating a steamy environment for the seafood to cook perfectly and it’s all completely coated and everything I just mentioned the sausage is brown before adding it to the bag so that right there adds even more flavor there’s a perfect amount of spicy kick the color is deep there’s a richness thanks to that obvious base of lots of butter that you just don’t get from the boiling method we can totally make this happen it’s going to be so good totally worth it the main component to these Seafood boils in a bag it is all about the sauce let’s make the sauce here is what I have pulled for my seasonings I was going to do lemon pepper some Old Bay it’s hot sauce garlic and then I debated on the Cajun seasoning cuz I was trying to save y’all like on ingredients but after having what I just had totally adding the Cajun what I didn’t necessarily notice in the bag that I had add as onion but in every shrimp boil I’ve ever done I’ve always put onion and it’s also going to kind of start my sauce key component in in a boil the sausage so going to go ahead and cut my garlic in half so I’m going to start by Browning my sausage this is a step that you’re going to want to do ahead of time and then whatever drippings are in here is going to be the base for my sauce and in goes the onion that onion’s going to help deglaze the skillet might not be the right way but this is my way once that onion softens I’m going to De glaze with some white wine I love cooking with wine sometimes I even put it into the food I’m developing the recipe so I should probably measure cuz yall going to be wanting measurements I’m going to go about 1/3 cup of white wine clean that pan I’m going to crank the heat down I don’t really want all of that wine to evaporate out because that’s part of my cooking liquid in the bag not one not two three three sticks of butter also adding in 1/4 cup of water you could do chicken stock there time for the seasonings I’m just going to be measuring with my heart here people a teaspoon of garlic powder 2 tablespoons lemon pepper this is how you measure a tablespoon then I’m just going to start with a teaspoon of Cajun seasoning tablespoon of hot sauce okay let’s taste just see if we’re on the right track it’s good but I want that like deep red color so I’m going to go in with some cayenne which will add the kick without adding salt and then a teaspoon of paprika Rosco what’s up Chef I need your professional just taste profresh me Prof I think it needs some more heat that’s fine more Cayenne no more Crystal no more Crystal I just thought this has salt too I was trying not to add any more salt well the salt’s going to go away once it soaks into the seafood okay and just a one of these just go ahead and hurt it just go ahead and hurt it don’t be so weak can I steal a sausage sure good luck CHF thank you I think this is going to be delicious my sauce is done the sausage is done when you do a regular boil in a pot you always got to put your potatoes in first because they’re going to take the longest to cook since it’s all cooking together in a bag get these partially cooked cuz we can’t do anything else until that happens so I’m going to go ahead and drop the potatoes in cold water bring those up to a boil I’m going to let them go about five or so minutes before I add in the corn this is going to be so good potatoes have been going Head Start about five or so minutes and now in with the corn I’m also going to go ahead and throw the garlic in just to soften it up and add flavor to this I cooked my eggs earlier but if you haven’t done that at this point is when you would want to add your eggs to hard boil them it’s really happening now so I’ve got turkey bags you can get the smaller like oven bags and build like individual portions place it in a bowl to make it easier I left my snow crab in here on purpose and the scrumps okay so I’m just doing crab and shrimp just want to be sure these crab legs don’t puncture the bag I’ve seen muscles crawfish lobster tails keeping it on the easy side plus this is what I like and I leave the peel on the shrimp I’ve seen both ways but half the fun of this whole process is getting messy I’m going to go in with mushrooms we do this when we’re at the lake and we do like a crawfish boil or a shrimp oil they’re going to absorb a lot of that yumminess then my potatoes and corn and garlic you could do this in a pot versus a bowl I did go ahead and boil some eggs because I see these in all the videos these are just going to be like the maximum flavor absorber is that everything I feel like I’ve forgotten something that’s so easy I did the sausage everything into the bag there now we have to kind of dge it in there a little bit just in case there’s so much flavor in this one bag I think that’s it 14 they’re noding yes I’m I’m there she’s there I’m going in 400° are you ready I hope this is amazing it puffed up look at that puff here goes [Music] nothing woo I’m going let you had the first taste are you really M spicy in a good way in a good way mhm oh it’s cooked perfectly Che this is great look at that I got to try a shrimp is that good M all right damn that’s have to wake you up I got to do the complete presentation by the way this took about 30 minutes cuz all of my Seafood was so cold to begin with now we’re talking on top of spaghetti ready and now hit it with a little lemon nailed it it’s juicy it’s juicy for the taste test got to start with the scrimps I know people could hear how juicy that was oh yeah give it to me she’s a happy girl want e a mushroom I think it’s the perfect amount of heat and a potato just for good measure most expensive thing about this meal is the pepper towels so much better than boiling in water and I don’t ever eat the corn I got to find my bib I made this whole platter of food for the same price that two people could eat out at the restaurant just like it may have taken me years to learn how to make seafood boil this way but I can tell you right now I’ll never do it another way now you want me to eat it like they do on Tik Tok juicy