A FOOD TRADITION
Louisiana Creole and Cajun cuisine
A Louisiana cooking tradition combining Creole urban influences with Cajun foodways, Gulf seafood, rice dishes, and French-derived techniques.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Bananas Foster
Bananas Foster is a New Orleans dessert of bananas sautéed in butter and brown sugar, flambéed with rum, and commonly served over vanilla ice cream.
Beignets
Beignets are yeasted wheat-flour dough pieces that are deep-fried and typically finished with sugar.
Boudin
Boudin is a Louisiana sausage-style dish made primarily from seasoned pork and rice with aromatic vegetables, commonly stuffed into a casing and served warm.
Calas
A New Orleans rice fritter made from rice, wheat flour, yeast, egg, sugar, and milk, then fried until crisp.
Charbroiled oysters
Oysters are grilled in their shells with a seasoned butter topping, commonly including garlic and cheese, until bubbling and lightly charred.
Crawfish bisque
A rich Louisiana-style soup made with crawfish, seasoned vegetable aromatics, stock, and often cream or a roux.
Crawfish boil
Crawfish, sausage, corn, potatoes, aromatics, lemon, and Cajun seasoning are boiled together and served hot as a communal Louisiana dish.
Crawfish étouffée
A Louisiana dish of crawfish simmered in a seasoned onion, celery, and bell-pepper sauce and served over rice.
Crawfish Monica
Crawfish Monica is a Louisiana pasta dish combining crawfish tails with short pasta, cream, tomatoes, butter, aromatics, and Creole seasoning.
Crawfish pie
A savory Louisiana pie filled with seasoned crawfish and aromatic vegetables in a wheat-flour pastry crust.
Dirty rice
Rice is cooked with savory meat, chicken liver or giblets, aromatic vegetables, garlic, and stock until the grains take on a dark, richly seasoned appearance.
Doberge cake
A New Orleans layered cake of tender wheat-based cake, custard filling, and rich icing, commonly prepared in chocolate or other flavored versions.
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