Recipes With Course: Main Dishes
Brenda’s Seafood Casserole
If you have lived, fish or hunted in South Louisiana, you know that seafood and wild game abound. Most Cajun children know how to catch shrimp by throwing a cast net while standing ankle deep in Rockefeller Refuge waters or the waters of Rutherford Beach. Because of its unique location, ...
Read moreJanelle’s Drunken Chicken
Here is the best use for your beer can. Cook your chicken with it. This Cajun Drunken Chicken seasoned with crab-crawfish-shrimp-boil seasoning is sure to be a crowd pleaser. The steam from the beer helps keep the chicken moist. Ingredients1 chicken fryer 4 - 5 pounds 1/4 can beer - ...
Read moreGumbo Burgers
Here is a novel idea for leftover gumbo. Use it to wake up your ground meat dish. Ingredients1 small onion sliced thinly 2 tbsp oil (Canola or Vegetable) or bacon fat 1 pound ground beef 1 cup leftover gumbo broth or one can gumbo 1/2 cup water 1 tsp salt ...
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Liver with Onion Gravy
As kids we would love it when Dad came home from the boucherie and it was his turn to get the liver and variety meats. Mom would cook us up some liver and onion. That was so good. She would also fry some too. It has been said that people ...
Read moreOven Chicken Fricassee
Cajuns love to get together and play cards games like booray (bouree) and euchre. While you fix this dish shuffle yourself a hand of Louisiana cards and play while it bakes. This dish is so easy and great for small dinner card games or any party or gathering. Taste so ...
Read moreBaked Turkey Breast
Most season a turkey only on the outside of the skin. The trick for better flavor is to season the turkey breast underneath the skin. This method imparts the flavor throughout the breast meat. Ingredients1 turkey breast 6 to 7 pounds 2 hatch peppers or 1/2 bell pepper 1 jalapeno ...
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Paw Paw’s Catfish Courtbouillon II
In Lake Charles, La., there was a wonderful Cajun restaurant that served one of the best courtbouillon (courtbouillion) around. Sarah writes, “I also enjoyed PawPaw’s Catfish Courtbouillion and didn’t know if you guys had the original recipe? I visited PawPaw’s in the early 90s and asked for the recipe and ...
Read moreDebris – Cooking Cajun Variety Meats aka Cowboy Stew
This dish contains most of the variety meats that Cajuns call debris. It consists basically of the organs such as liver, heart, kidneys, tripe, spleen (melt), the honeycomb (la platin), brain, lungs and sweetbreads (pancreas). There are two kinds of sweetbreads: stomach sweetbreads (also known as heart or belly sweetbreads), ...
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