Crawfish Cheese Pie

Ingredients:

• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup green onions, finely chopped
• 5 stalks celery, finely chopped
• 2 ounces crawfish fat
• 1 can cream of shrimp soup (do not dilute)
• 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco
• 1/4 teaspoon each red, black and white pepper
• 1 cup water
• 1 pound crawfish tails
• 3 cups cooked rice
• 1 cooked pie crust
• Salt to taste
• 5 ounces grated cheddar cheese
  

Directions:

1. Melt butter and sauté green onions and celery for 15 minutes.
2. Add fat and cook 5 minutes.
3. Add soup, black, red and white pepper and Tabasco. Cook 5 minutes.
4. Add crawfish tails, rice and water.  Stir, making sure mixture is not too dry or too runny. Add a little water if too dry.
5. It must be thick enough to stand as a slice of pie.
6. Add salt to taste.
7. Stir in cheese and put in pie shell.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.