🔥🦞 Backyard Crawfish Benny on the Pitts & Spitts Flattop

This is how you take brunch to another level. Fluffy corn cakes cooked on the flattop, topped with a rich crawfish and spinach sauté, finished with over-easy eggs and a bright citrus hollandaise. It’s bold, fresh, and built to impress.

Ingredients

Corn Cakes

• 1 package cornbread mix
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• 2 tbsp Boudreaux’s pickled pepper relish
• 1 tbsp sliced chives
• 3 egg whites, whipped to stiff peaks
• Butter, for cooking

Crawfish Sauté

• ½ lb Louisiana crawfish tails
• ½ red onion, diced
• ½ red bell pepper, diced
• Boudreaux’s Lil’ Bit Better Creole Seasoning, to taste
• ½ package baby spinach, stems removed

Eggs

• Eggs, cooked over easy

Citrus Hollandaise

• ½ cup tangerine juice (or other citrus)
• 1 tsp zest
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 tsp white wine vinegar
• Salt, to taste
• Hot sauce, to taste
• 1½ sticks butter, melted

Instructions

1. Make the Corn Cakes

Mix cornbread mix with buttermilk. Stir in pepper relish and chives. Gently fold in whipped egg whites to keep the batter light and airy.

Heat flattop or skillet over medium-high heat and add butter. Ladle batter onto the surface. Cook until bubbles form and edges set, then flip and cook until golden brown on both sides. Set aside.

2. Prepare the Crawfish Sauté

Cook diced onion and bell pepper in a little oil or butter until softened. Add crawfish tails and season with Creole seasoning. Stir in spinach and cook until wilted. Remove from heat.

3. Make the Hollandaise

Add egg yolks, citrus juice, zest, vinegar, salt, and hot sauce to a blender. Blend briefly. Slowly drizzle in hot melted butter while blending to create a smooth emulsified sauce. If needed, thin slightly with warm water.

4. Cook the Eggs

Cook eggs over easy so the yolk remains runny.

5. Assemble

Place a corn cake on the plate. Top with crawfish sauté, then an egg. Spoon citrus hollandaise over the top. Garnish with chives and a light sprinkle of seasoning.

Rich, bright, and packed with Louisiana flavor — this is brunch done the backyard way.