Crayfish Mornay - Real Recipes from Mums (2024)

Serves 4
30 minutes
Difficulty Easy
9 Ingredients

By mle00

March 1, 2014

116 Comments

Crayfish is a firm favourite in our house! Especially fresh ocean caught crayfish.

My husband is a keen spear fisherman and he’ll often come home with at least one lovely big crayfish. This is great because I love my crays!

I hope you enjoy this recipe – it’s one I’ve used a lot over the years. It also doesn’t require lots of ingredients – just a few basics you are bound to have in your pantry and fridge already.

If you don’t have any fresh crayfish available, you could recreate this recipe with someLobster Tails placed in an ovenproof dish (rather then their own shell). The flavour of the lobster will be a little milder than the crays so this may even suit some better.

Is there anything else you would add to the ingredients list for this Crayfish Mornay Recipe?

Ingredients (serves 4)

1 cup Grated cheese
80g Butter
1/2 cup Self Raising flour
2 tsp Minced garlic
3 cups Milk
1 Diced onion
1 Clove of garlic diced
1 Crayfish meat
1 Salt, pepper & lemon to season

Method

In a pot of boiling salt water add a green crayfish and cook for 8 minutes of until flesh is firm (don't overcook!)
In a saucepan melt butter and add flour, stir until crumbly
Add milk gradually continuously stirring, add grated cheese and minced garlic, turn off heat when desired consistency is reached.
Fry diced onion and garlic until clear, add in shredded crayfish meat and season to taste. Transfer into cheese sauce and pour into fray shell, bake under a hot grill for approximately 6 minutes or until golden, serve with lemon!

Notes

Crayfish flesh can be a little overpowering on its own so this Crayfish Mornay is a nice way to mellow out the flavour!

Crayfish not your speed but you still like the creamy texture of a Mornay sauce?

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- - meedee said
  - 13 May 2023
    8:13 am
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I would love to try this

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- - mumof3 said
  - 09 Jul 2022
    6:31 pm
Not usually a fan of crayfish, but this actually looks delicious.

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- - mom101628 said
  - 29 Jun 2022
    12:21 am
Your recipe sounds wonderful and looks like what I can remember having in a restaurant many years ago. I would think the mornay sauce would go with quite a few sorts of fish as well. Thanks so much for sharing.

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- - ~Loui~ said
  - 04 May 2022
    11:52 pm
This takes tuna mornay and ups the ante! Yum

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- - smart_ass said
  - 31 Jan 2022
    3:59 pm
yum – i’ve tried this maybe once or twice but this recipe makes it sound so easy!

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- - rovermum said
  - 12 Jan 2022
    9:43 am
This looks absolutely amazing. I had a lobster mornay once at a restaurant and I think it was my most decadent, luxe meal ever. I loved it.

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- - mom337867 said
  - 11 Jan 2022
    1:00 pm
Will definitely give this a go with our next catch! It’s great to have a few options up your sleeve!!

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- - mom103778 said
  - 11 Jan 2022
    9:57 am
This Crayfish Mornay looks delicious. I haven’t had one of these in a while.

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- - Mumof3boyos said
  - 11 Jan 2022
    7:30 am
This looks very tasty and rich! Mmmm!

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- - mom348878 said
  - 10 Jan 2022
    10:23 pm
Sounds amazing I’m gonna checkout local seafood now for these babies thank you x

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- - Frankiielot said
  - 10 Jan 2022
    9:05 pm
I’ve never had crayfish before. In fact I don’t really eat a lot of shelled seafood as I’m lazy to peel it all!
Sounds delicious though.

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- - mom196152 said
  - 02 Aug 2021
    5:38 pm
I’ve never had Crayfish but really love Lobster and this looks and sounds yum!

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- - smart_ass said
  - 29 Jul 2021
    10:23 am
This looks divine!

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- - rovermum said
  - 22 Jul 2021
    11:22 am
OMG! Talk about mouth watering. Licking my lips right now. This is up there with my dream meal.

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- - shanika said
  - 22 Jul 2021
    10:45 am
Lovely presentation. I have never tried them before. I am not sure about eating this.

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