Crawfish Dipping Sauce
The essential crawfish dipping sauce for your next crawfish boil! This ketchup and mayonnaise crawfish sauce is perfect for dipping your spicy crawfish tails, potatoes, and corn.
If you’re having a crawfish boil, then you need to have crawfish dipping sauce! Traditionally, bowls of this mayonnaise and ketchup based sauce will be on the crawfish boil table so everyone can get a dip. It’s not just for crawfish though, make sure to try some with your potatoes and corn, or with a seafood boil!
Have some leftover crawfish? Put them in a creamy pasta like crawfish Monica or crawfish cream sauce. You can also make fried crawfish or a crawfish po’boy! Leftover crawfish never go to waste in south Louisiana!
What You’ll Love About This Recipe
Expert Tip
Make crawfish dipping sauce the night before so it has time to chill in the fridge. It will taste even better the next day!
Ingredients & Substitutions
See the recipe card below for the complete list of ingredients and measurements.
- Mayonnaise – Use your favorite brand, as long as it’s not miracle whip! For more mayo based sauces, try remoulade sauce or cajun tartar sauce.
- Ketchup – Regular ketchup is best.
- Hot sauce – For cajun dishes, I prefer a vinegar based hot sauce like Louisiana Hot Sauce or Crystal Hot Sauce.
- Cajun seasoning – Use a creole seasoning like Tony Chachere’s, Slap Ya Mama, or try making your own homemade cajun seasoning.
- Other ingredients needed – worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
Variations
Make this crawfish dipping sauce just how you like it! You can put out the ingredients and bowls, and have your crawfish boil guests mix their own.
- Add a squeeze of lemon juice to the sauce.
- If you love the spicy bite of prepared horseradish, add a little bit to your crawfish dip.
- For more spice, add a dash of cayenne pepper.
- Add fresh herbs like chopped parsley or green onions.
Equipment Needed
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This crawfish dipping sauce really couldn’t be easier to make! Just mix all the ingredients together until well combined. For best results, chill the sauce for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Storage & Make Ahead
Storage: Store leftover crawfish sauce in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3 days.
Freeze: Do not freeze this sauce.
Make ahead: You can make a big batch of this dipping sauce the day before your crawfish boil and keep it in the refrigerator.
Ways to Use Crawfish Sauce
This sauce was made for dipping boiled crawfish, but you can use it other ways too!
- Spread it on your french bread for a crawfish po’boy.
- A dipping sauce for fried crawfish tails.
- It makes a great sandwich spread on a sous vide cajun turkey breast sandwich.
- Dip easy blackened shrimp in it.
- It’s also delicious on chicken! Try it on blackened chicken tenders.
Condiment and Sauce Recipes
More Crawfish Recipes
It’s crawfish season! Try out some of these leftover crawfish recipes.
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Crawfish Dipping Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce vinegar based
- ½ teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon cajun seasoning
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- MIX: Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
- CHILL: Refrigerate overnight for best results, or at least 30 minutes.
Notes
- Storage: Store leftover crawfish sauce in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3 days.
- Freeze: Do not freeze this sauce.
- Make ahead: You can make a big batch of this dipping sauce the day before your crawfish boil and keep it in the refrigerator.
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