Crawfish Tail Étouffée
Peeled crawfish tails in a quick tomato and spice sauce over rice becomes dinner in under 30 minutes.
- Per serving
- $1.52
- Serves
- 4
- Time
- 20 min
- Whole dinner
- $6.08
Ingredients
12 oz Crawfish tail meat peeled and deveined
On sale at Walmart: Boudreaux's Frozen Cooked Peeled & Deveined, Crawfish Tail Meat, 12 oz.
$2.00$7.961 pouch Creamy chicken parboiled rice
On sale at Walmart: Knorr Creamy Chicken Parboiled Rice Cooks in 7 Minutes, No Artificial Flavors, 5.7 oz Rugular Pouch
$0.50$1.241 can Diced tomatoes
about $1.501 medium Onion
about $0.502 stalks Celery
about $1.001 medium Bell pepper green
about $1.253 cloves Garlic
pantry2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
pantry2 tablespoons Oil
pantry1 tablespoon Butter
pantry
Prices are from Walmart the week of October 4, 2026. Sale prices change every week and differ by store.
Steps
- Prepare the creamy chicken rice according to package directions.
- Dice the onion, celery, and bell pepper finely. Mince the garlic.
- Heat oil and butter in a skillet over medium high heat, then add the vegetables and cook for 4 to 5 minutes until softened.
- Stir in the crawfish tail meat and garlic, cooking for 2 minutes.
- Pour in the diced tomatoes with their juice and Cajun seasoning, simmer for 5 minutes.
- Serve the crawfish étouffée over the creamy rice.
Why it’s cheap
2 of the 10 ingredients were on sale at Walmart the week of October 4, 2026, led by crawfish tail meat peeled and deveined at $2.00 instead of $7.96.
The sale items rang up $6.70 under their regular prices.
Penny Meals prices a dinner by the share of each package you actually cook, adds an estimated shelf price for anything that wasn’t on sale, and counts pantry staples like oil and salt as free. That came to $1.52 a serving, or $6.08 for 4 servings.
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