Cajun and Creole Cooking

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The phrase Creole comes from the Spanish phrase criallo which implies a aggregate of cultures or colors (as in the phrase Crayola) and from the Latin creare which implies to create (as in a new race). The combine of cultures protected Native Americans, French, Spanish, English, African American, German and Italian.

Jambalaya - Traditionally made in one pot with meat and veggies, served over rice. Most Creole recipes upload tomatoes while the Cajun recipes don't. Both are protected the following.
Man-Pleasin' Jambalaya
Cabbage Jambalaya
Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Chunky Jambalaya
Shrimp Jambalaya
Jambalaya
Turkey Jambalaya
Jumping Joe's Jambalaya
Crockpot Jambalaya
Chunky Jambalaya

Etouffe - In French, toufe actually capacity "smothered." Most toufe dishes use a seafood - most popularly crawfish - and have a consistency much like gumbo.
Shrimp Etoufee
Caputo's Shrimp Etouffee
Chicken Etouffee

Gumbo - More of a stew than jambalaya, gumbo is pretty spiced and includes a sort of regional seafood like shrimp and crawfish. Gumbo additionally is served over rice.
Chicken Rice Gumbo
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Crab-Okra Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo
Louisiana Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo
Chicken and Seafood Gumbo
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Turkey Gumbo

Crawfish
Cajun Crawfish Cornbread
Elegant Crawfish Puffs
Mini-Crawfish Pies
Seafood Boudin
Crawfish and Eggs
Sauted Crawfish in Tomatoes with Dill and Honey
Crawfish Boil

Catfish - A fish that could be abundant in the south, catfish has transform a very important phase of Cajun and Creole cooking.
Catfish Creole
Cajun Catfish Supreme
Red Lobster's Fried Catfish and Hushpuppies
Catfish Roasted with Sesame Seeds, Basil, Garlic and Spinach
Creole Baked Fish
Pecan Crusted Catfish with White Cheddar Grits
Fried Fish
Pan Fried Catfish Filets
Fried Catfish with Remoulade Sauce
Pecan Crusted Catfish
Blackened Catfish & Shrimp
Catfish and Roasted Pepper Skillet Supper
Catfish Hoagie
Spicy New Orleans Catfish Fries
Battered Catfish and Chips
Sweet Potato Catfish
Pecan-Crusted Fish with Peppers and Squash Catfish

Recipes
Seafood Boudin
Cush-Cush (Cajun mush)
Louisiana Dirty Rice
Southern Dirty Rice
Andouille & Boudin Sausage
Cajun Shrimp and Rice
Andouille a la Jeannine
Cajun Dirty Rice
Cajun Fried Rice
Cajun Fried Potatoes and Sausage

However, being the go-getter that I am, I've determined to tackle southern food one zone at a time - and in which better to commence than Louisiana? A state with a fascinatingly rich culture and history, there are two main genres of cooking which have emerged: Creole and Cajun. And even if the mainstream media have commercialized the assumption of Cajun to mean whatever that could be pretty spiced (i.e. McDonald's Spicy Cajun McChicken), those two cuisines every have their personal methods, additives and histories that produce a respectable deal extra complex flavors than just "pretty spiced."

Oysters Rockefeller
Shrimp Remoulade
Bananas Foster
Shrimp Creole Crockpot
Sacon and Rice Creole
Hot Creole Vegetables
Creole Pecan Chicken Breasts
Avocado-Studded Mardi Gras Fritters with Creole Mustard-Apricot Sauce
Creole Summer Squash
Baked Fish with Creole Sauce
Excellent Shrimp Creole
Chicken Creole

History
One of the principle variations among Creole and Cajun food is the origin of the individuals who created them. Creole food was once born from European aristocrats who moved to New Orleans in the late 1600s. Melding lifestyles as accurately as culinary affects, a new culture was once born. These individuals became the higher-classification of the city and their descendants can still be found in the French Quarter of New Orleans this day.

Red Beans and Rice - Made with red beans, veggies, beef and rice, this was once an extra "one pot meal" that allowed ladies folk to do residence chores while the food was once cooking. Often served at broad gatherings (like Mardi Gras) because it'll serve so many individuals.
Red Beans and Rice
Lake Charles Red Beans and Rice
Red Beans and Rice
Cajun Corn, Rice and Beans

Other
New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp

Natural Resources - Native Americans taught the Acadian immigrants to utilize their assets by cooking with merchandise found in swamps, bayous, lakes, rivers and woods.
One Pot Meals - In an effort to conserve power and assets, meals that may probably probably be cooked in a single pot made everyone's life easier. Dishes like jambalaya, grillads, stews, fricassees and gumbos all lent themselves to this form of preparation.
German Sausages - Another outside influence, Cajuns immediately learned to use the sausage to upload flavor and spice to their cooking. Sausages like andouille (pronounced en-DOO- wee), smoked sausage, boudin and chaudin are all found in Cajun cooking.

Cuisine
Because the Creole were individuals of privilege, the additives in their food reflect a extra developed and pricey palate. The veritable melting pot that was once merging in New Orleans throughout the end of the 17th Century created a fusion of foods. Dishes that we now acknowledge to be uniquely Creole are every contributions from assorted European cultures and in actuality illustrate the evolution of the dishes.

History
The history of the Cajun individuals is practically the express contrary of the Creole, whose lives were filled with privilege (and individual chefs). The individuals who became known as Cajuns were exiled French refugees who immigrated to south Louisiana from Acadia, Nova Scotia in the 18th Century. Because they were immigrants forced from their homeland, their food - and their livelihood - depended on their survival. The Acadians (who were later known as Cajuns) learned to live off the land by incorporating fish, shellfish and wild recreation into their diets.

Po' Boy (additionally po-boy, po boy, or poor boy) - The usual submarine sandwich of Louisiana. It basically consists of fried meat or seafood with a creamy, tartar sauce on a bun.
Fried Oyster Po' Boy

Grits - A kind of porridge consisting of ground corn, grits are a most accurately-liked breakfast side in the south. Served simple or with cheese.
Baked Garlic and Herb Grits
Harbor House Shrimp and Grits
Yankee Grits
Cheese Garlic Grits

Cuisine
Born in the bayous and swamplands of Louisiana, Cajun food is one of healthy assets, performance and survival. The phrase "table in the wilderness" is all the time used when in terms of authentic Cajun cooking because the Acadians had to conform to the indigenous foods of the area. A regular misconception is that Cajun food is de facto pretty spiced. On the contrary, Cajun food is accurately-seasoned, but did not gain a name for heat until the 1970s when the "blackening" method became regular. Cajun food originated from 3 major affects:

Creole

Bourbon Chicken
Bourbon Chicken
Grilled Bourbon Chicken
Bourbon Chicken
Orange Braised Bourbon Chicken

From the French bouillabaisse came gumbo
From the Spanish paella came jambalaya
German influence brought sausage and dairy
Italians  concepts of pastry and ice cream
West Indian and Haitian methods of braising and slow cooking influenced the preparation of gumbo
Native Americans added spices and flavoring of corn, bay leaves and fil powder
African Americans  okra to the dishes

Here are a substantial sort of recipes for all of your southern favorites.

Remoulade - A sauce originating in France, it's most akin to a mayonnaise-based totally tartar sauce. The sauce is used in a sort of cultures and regions, but in Louisiana it's always considered with bread, pan-fried fish or seafood.
Fried Catfish with Remoulade Sauce
Remoulade Sauce
Fried Green Tomatoes with Remoulade Sauce

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Aside from the special dishes of every culture, Cajun and Creole food proportion many of a similar dishes. Both utilize (and swear by) what chefs call the "Holy Trinity" of southern cooking: green peppers, onions and celery. These basic staples will most probably be protected in any authentic Cajun or Creole dishes. Also, many recipes call for a roux (pronounced roo), which is actually flour cooked in fat and browned to upload a base flavor to the dish.

Cajun and Creole Cooking

Recipes
While there's an preferrred volume of overlap in a substantial sort of Cajun and Creole cooking, there are additionally a substantial sort of uniquely Creole dishes that ought to not be mislabeled.

Cajun

I'll be honest - I'm a chunk of intimidated by Southern food. Each area of the South has its personal special flavors and aromas, additives and methods that set it except the others. And being but a humble suburban Northerner, the assumption of delving into the goings on of the Southern kitchen is all out frightening.