Cajun Dip for Boiled Crawfish or Shrimp

Seafood Dip

I used to travel to Louisiana a lot for work and my favorite thing to do was go eat crawfish! At all "good" crawfish places (usually waaaay out in the middle of nowhere) you are served a bowl of mayonnaise well prior to your crawdads. This seemed odd to me until I watched the locals go to work on it. One tables they didn't just have the standard salt and pepper. They had a plethora of other seasonings for you to make your dip! The best combo I managed to concoct consists of the below ingredients. I don't know the amounts- it's all to taste! Serve with any type of seafood- boiled or fried. I've even put it on pizza :-)

1. Start off with a bowl of mayo (Hellmans is the best)

2. Stir in ketchup until the mixture is a creamy orange

3. Stir in a liberal amount of "cajun power garlic sauce"

4. Stir in some L&P

5. Stir in a dash of Tabasco (or more if you want it spicy hot)

6. Sprinkle a small amount of cajun seasoning (Tony's or something similar)

7. Just keep tasting it until you like it and add more or less of something. If you "over do" it, add more mayo and ketchup to dilute your seasonings.