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How to Make a Low Country Boil - Simply Jocelyn
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May 7, 2025
How to make a homemade low country boil. When you visit the low country of Georgia one of the most popular dishes you should have is a low country boil. A low country boil consists of red potatoes, corn, smoked sausage, shrimp, and a few other tasty treats, but the key is Old Bay Seasoning. Making low country boil at home or at an airbnb is pretty easy and very tasty. Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Grab Some of Jocelyn's Favorite Kitchen Gear Ninja Blender/Food Processor - https://amzn.to/30F4vXZ Calphalon Tri-Ply Stainless Steel Cookware - https://amzn.to/30sZ91O GreenPan Lima Ceramic Non-Stick Griddle - https://amzn.to/2BNCa77 PriorityChef Mortar and Pestle - https://amzn.to/3ff4rCd Silicone Stretch Lids for Keeping Things Fresh - https://amzn.to/2UvX6pL Le Creuset Stoneware Butter Crock - https://amzn.to/2UwIxSV
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Hey, I'm Jocelyn and we are here on Tybee Island. Tybee is like one of my old stomping grounds and we have a couple of friends here with us
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And so we're going to make some Low Country Boil which is a really great thing to do when you have a bunch of people and you don't want to have to do a whole lot of work
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lot of work. All it is is corn, potatoes, onion. You need some kind of sausage, some Old Bay
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seasoning. This is like an absolute must. You can't go without that. And then some shrimp
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And we're going to put all that into boil. And it's all just about putting it in at the right
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time so you don't overcook things. Obviously, shrimp takes a lot less time to cook than a
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potato. So you're just going to put things in in a certain order and you're going to pull it all
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out and you throw the whole mess right onto the table, literally put some newspapers down and you
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just throw it all out and everybody digs in. So this is Low Country Boil. So the first thing I
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always do is I shuck my corn and I pull off as much of a little silk as possible. And then you
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just pop them in half. So you have smaller pieces. Um, and actually if you want, you can do it into
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thirds, just, you know, kind of human sized pieces. Right. And, um, I filled up, I have this great
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pot right here. This is like kind of a necessity for this. Um, and you only fill it not even halfway
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probably about a third because you're going to put a lot of food into this. So you don't need
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this to be very full. So I'm going to go back to, uh, prepping some of my veggies and, um, we'll go
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through more later. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and continue to cut things up, wash things. Um
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I'm going to quarter these and you know, I'm in an air, not an Airbnb. It's actually
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we rented through VRBO, but, um, I don't have all the proper utensils. This has actually been
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kind of difficult. This kitchen is what I call kitchen light. And, um, I will talk about that
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on a video about cooking and cleaning in an Airbnb, because that's an important thing to know
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Um, also I'm going to pop open this sausage. This is kielbasa. Um, a lot of people do, um
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andouille sausage, which in my opinion is probably my favorite, but kielbasa is really good too
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But you're not getting like Jimmy Dup, right? Um, it's not like country sausage. Um, so you need
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this the good stuff So I just going to cut this too into um like maybe one inch sort of pieces so that you got you know like a little bigger than bite size is what we looking for here
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All right. So I'm just prepping everything before I start. And I'm going to put the water to boil while I'm doing my prep work
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Well, I would if I were at home, but this is a really tiny stove and I have nowhere else
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to cut. So usually you should just set your water to boil while you're doing all this work
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Okay, so I've got my, I've got three onions quartered. I've got kielbasa in like one inch segments
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And then I am taking, usually I use like tiny little red potatoes, but can't always find those
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So any old red potato works fine. Just, you know, I'm quartering each half
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So I'm cutting it into eighths. So about that size. Again, you know, just kind of bite size, a little, like a hearty bite
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We'll call it that. and at the moment I have got my water started and into the water is going to go about two or three
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ounces of Old Bay seasoning and that is hugely important because you're going to season your
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water and then you're going to cook things and we're going to cook the potatoes first
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I'm going to cook my potatoes for about five to six minutes and then I'll throw the onions in
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and then the kielbasa. And then after the sausage goes in and everything's really just about done
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I'm going to throw the shrimp in and the shrimp are literally going to be in there for like
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two minutes. You just want them to just turn pink and then pull them out. So as soon as you see those
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done, you're going to take this whole thing out, drain it, and you're going to go throw it on your
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table. So I'm going to go ahead and do this. And, uh, you guys now know the basics of making
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a really good low country bowl. It smells like home. All right. So as soon as this gets to boil
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I'm going to start putting things in, in the correct order, and then we'll be all ready to
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eat. So my water is boiling and it is lovely. And you can smell this old bay all the way around the
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house. Um, normally I don't use tongs to do one potato at a time, but that's where it's
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going to be. Well, I don't know. Maybe I have a big spoon over here. I've got a ladle. We'll
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see how this goes. Um, so you just want to be careful when you drop these in because
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Old Bay, well, it stains. That's all there is to that. Um, so I'm just going to drop
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a bunch in a little bit carefully and I put my potatoes in and then my onions and then
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my kielbasa and then my corn and then my shrimp so check back with me in a minute There be more stuff in this pot
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Okay, so right now there is three ounces. There is half of this can of Old Bay in this water boiling
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Reserve the rest of this because when we dump it onto the newspapers and whatnot
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we're gonna dump almost the rest of this on there too. Okay, we're gonna let these
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potatoes cook for a few minutes and then we'll go back to the rest. Okay, I have got my potatoes. They have been boiling for a good hot five minutes and you know
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I'm just gonna do this. That knife is sliding in pretty easily so I'm gonna do
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that and I'm gonna throw in my onions next. Y'all I keep dropping all the
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vegetables. We're not going to have any vegetables if I keep doing this. So, all right, so I'm just
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going to slide those in there and then I will throw in the meat and the corn cook at about the same
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rate. You might want to put the meat in like a scotch ahead of the corn, but just pop all that in
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there. Okay, we got potatoes, we got onions, and now I'm going to throw my kielbasa in. Just
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same thing throw it all in there let it cook for about five minutes or so maybe not even that long
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just a few minutes I'm going to throw the corn in after that um kielbasa and corn go about the same
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time so really by the time I get done loading all this in um it'll be time for the corn too and I'm
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just going to carefully do that with tongs and then I will throw the shrimp in and I'll show you
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that in just a second. Okay, time for corn. Give it a good stir in about five minutes
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We're going to put our lovely shrimp in. And by the way, if you're in Savannah, best place to get
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your shrimp and seafood is at Russo's. If you want fresh stuff, that's the place to go. Okay
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So I have three pounds of Russo's shrimp. And like I'm saying, this is a great place to get your shrimp when you're in Savannah
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But you know what? I'm looking at this pot and it's like, it's pretty full
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I think I put a little more stuff in there than maybe I should have. So I'm going to do two pounds instead of three
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And I going to put these in together as quickly as possible because shrimp takes like no time at all to cook and overcooked shrimp sucks So it literally needs like two minutes as soon as it turns pink turn every actually you could probably turn it off now but
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turn it all off and just be done you're going to drain it as soon as this stuff starts to turn pink
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and it happens quick so i have thrown those shrimp in and i told you this thing was full
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But look how fast those things cook. They're already starting to turn pink on one side
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So I am just going to push those down in. I'm going to turn this off
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And I'm going to let them sit there for about 30 seconds. And then I'm going to pull this pot out
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And we're going to go down to the dock. We're going to go down to the dock
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And everybody's going to dig in just like this. So, all right, see you in a minute
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Here we go. So, it's a little bit heavy. Got to lift now and then
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So, this is why you need one of these wonderful little buckets
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So we can just drain this out. And then we can let that go out just a bit
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And then we're going to carry this whole thing down to the dock. And we're going to throw it on
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We don't have newspapers. Because you know what? We're staying in a rental. I'll get the newspaper here
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But I do have some paper bags. from the grocery store, so we're just going to use that
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So you'll see it in just a second. As we drift. This is why all my doors have levers and not twisties
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No joke, because I'll use my feet if I have to. Nobody wants to come to my house because I use my feet
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All right, so this is how we do it
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You just dump it out. Go for it, Sam. Some of it falls down
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Throw your cocktail sauce. And you've got your shaker full of Old Bay
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sprinkle it over the top you can do as much or as little as you want right now
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I kind of like do a little bit and then let everybody decide on their own so dig in Amen Amen
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