Introducing a collection of the top 40 Best Louisiana Recipes from this Louisiana woman. Here are mouthwatering dishes from my rich Cajun heritage, offering bold flavors from Cajun cooking and Creole cuisine.
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- How To Boil Crawfish: With Helpful Tips
- Easy Boiled Shrimp Recipe
- Best-Ever Hush Puppies
- Crawfish Fettuccine
- Pork Jambalaya With Sausage: A Traditional Cajun Dish
- Best Hot Cajun Boudin Dip Recipe
- Buttery-Salted Roasted Pecans
- Crispy Louisiana Boudin Egg Rolls
- Cajun Crawfish Etouffee Recipe: To Étouffée Is To Smother
- Rice And Gravy, A Cajun Staple
- Easy Old Fashioned Homemade Root Beer
- Shrimp Okra Gumbo Recipe: Made With Smothered Okra
- Gumbo z'Herbes Made With Greens, A Green Gumbo Recipe
- King Cake Recipe: A Traditional Version
- Shrimp Mold Recipe, A New Orleans Style Molded Dip
- Best Louisiana Rice Dressing
- Cajun Firecracker Ranch Crackers
- Easy Southern Louisiana Blackberry Dumplings Recipe
- Crawfish Nachos: aka Cajun Crawchos
- Fish In Red Gravy
- Cajun Cake Recipe: Pineapple, Coconut, Pecan Cake
- Chicken Sauce Piquant Recipe, A Smothered Cajun Stew
- La Bouille Recipe, Old Fashioned Cajun Custard
- Simple Cajun Aioli : The Spicy Garlic Mayo Sauce
- Louisiana Crunch Cake, A Coconutty Southern Recipe
- Cajun Roux Recipe And An Easy Lesson
- Smothered Okra For Gumbo
- Fish Cakes Made With Sacalait (Crappie or White Perch)
- Louisiana Shrimp And Corn Soup, A Cajun Recipe
- Louisiana Comeback Sauce, A Best Southern Recipe
- Cajun-Style Smothered Green Beans With Potatoes
- Southern Louisiana Coleslaw Buttermilk Recipe
- Mardi Gras Salad With Asparagus
- Easy Corn Maque Choux, Cajun Side Dish Recipe
- Shrimp Stew With Eggs
- Comforting Cajun Meatball Stew
- Couche Couche Recipe, A Cajun Mama's Breakfast Cereal
- Fig Pepper Jelly
- Croquesignoles Or French Donuts
- Deboned Stuffed Chicken: With An Easy Tutorial
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How To Boil Crawfish: With Helpful Tips
Eating crawfish is a Cajun's delight, so with that said, it's my pleasure to share our family's methodology on How To Boil Crawfish. Here's my top-rated recipe on everything you need to know for a crawfish boil with helpful tips and a short video on peeling those tasty tails. So, allons'! (That means let's go!)
Easy Boiled Shrimp Recipe
Preparing a pot of Easy-Boiled Shrimp is a cinch with just a few pantry ingredients. There is no need for a bottled liquid crab boil or a boxed seasoning bag. You only need seasonings, lemons, raw gulf shrimp, and a large pot of boiling water. Then, you'll be eating tender shrimp in minutes!
Best-Ever Hush Puppies
These Best-Ever Hush Puppies are crispy on the outside and light and tender on the inside. They have a delicious sweet cornbread, fresh jalapeño, and oniony taste. The easy prep and cooking instructions make these fried golden brown rounds a 'best ever' quick bread recipe!
Crawfish Fettuccine
This deliciously creamy, cheesy Crawfish Fettuccine with spicy jalapeno pepper to tempt the taste buds is made with fresh ingredients. Nope, this is not your typical canned soup fettuccine recipe!
Pork Jambalaya With Sausage: A Traditional Cajun Dish
Cooking authentic Cajun food from South Louisiana should be a simple and convenient experience, just like this Pork Jambalaya recipe suggests. If you can chop vegetables and stir in a pot, you can make this tantalizing rib-sticking meal of tender pork, smoked andouille sausage, and perfectly seasoned rice.
Best Hot Cajun Boudin Dip Recipe
This Boudin Dip is a hard-to-resist baked appetizer flavored with boudin (a Cajun sausage of rice and meat), melted cheese, and Cajun seasoning. It's baked until bubbly on the edges and topped with crispy bacon bits and green onions. What's not to love?
Buttery-Salted Roasted Pecans
There's nothing like feasting on crisp, Buttery-Salted Roasted Pecans when trying to curb your hunger or satisfy that beastly snack attack. This pecan recipe is a no-guilt delicious treat that pleases most with simple ingredients and easy instructions.
Crispy Louisiana Boudin Egg Rolls
Boudin Egg Rolls are a crispy fried treat and easy to make with the stuffing from Louisiana's Cajun boudin. Wrap the boudin filling in an egg roll wrapper and fry it in a deep fryer with the right combination of olive oil and vegetable oil for a satisfying snack, meal, or appetizer.
Cajun Crawfish Etouffee Recipe: To Étouffée Is To Smother
Cajun Crawfish Etouffee Recipe is a classic Louisiana dish that consists of smothered crawfish in a buttery white sauce flavored with the Cajun trinity and a kick of cayenne. Try it with shrimp insted of crawfish. The étouffée is served over rice.
Rice And Gravy, A Cajun Staple
We Cajuns like our Rice And Gravy the way our mamas serve it: with a dark gravy (really dark) over a pile of white rice. And if there's enough gravy to cover each grain, she's really good at it!
Easy Old Fashioned Homemade Root Beer
When the days bring warmer temperatures, I crave a cold glass of something from the heart of Cajun country: Homemade Root Beer. It's a refreshing, non-carbonated drink of root beer extract, sugar, and water. Our Cajun mamas were the cool neighborhood root beer moms before the Kool-Aid moms became popular!
Shrimp Okra Gumbo Recipe: Made With Smothered Okra
The delicious combinations make the Shrimp Okra Gumbo Recipe unique. This classic Cajun gumbo is thickened using smothered okra instead of the traditional dark roux of flour and oil. It's a healthier version and can be served as a main dish, a side dish, or the most appetizing appetizer.
Gumbo z'Herbes Made With Greens, A Green Gumbo Recipe
Gumbo Z'Herbes (sometimes called green gumbo) is a famous Creole gumbo recipe from New Orleans. It comprises a dark roux, smoked meat, and different winter greens. This dish began as a meatless gumbo to serve during the Lenten season and is now a rich Southern Louisiana tradition of cooking.
King Cake Recipe: A Traditional Version
The traditions of Louisiana are fun to explore, mainly when they include celebratory foods like this King Cake Recipe. It's filled with the classic flavors of cinnamon sugar swirled in tender bread dough, baked to perfection, and then iced with sprinkles of purple, green, and gold sugar.
Shrimp Mold Recipe, A New Orleans Style Molded Dip
This delicious Shrimp Mold Recipe is stamped with the flavors of New Orleans for a classic Southern Louisiana shrimp dip. The dip congeals in a mold after it's chilled and magically keeps its shape when released from the container.
Best Louisiana Rice Dressing
This classic Louisiana Rice Dressing is not the same as dirty rice. It's one of Southern Louisiana's traditional recipes for many family gatherings. It begins with a stock made of roux, the Cajun trinity of onions, green bell pepper, and celery, then cooked with ground beef and pork. It's a convenient and versatile side or main dish!
Cajun Firecracker Ranch Crackers
Cajun Firecracker Ranch Crackers are crispy baked saltines packed with not just a little bit of flavor. They're easy to make and great as a snack, appetizer, or served with soup, gumbo, and/or salad. Oh, yeah, and with a link of hot boudin, too. Smack!
Easy Southern Louisiana Blackberry Dumplings Recipe
Easy Blackberry Dumplings are warm, soft dumplings cooked in a sweet blackberry sauce that brings back memories of traditional blackberry picking during early southern Louisiana summers.
Crawfish Nachos: aka Cajun Crawchos
You'll find spicy Cajun seasoned cheesiness in these Crawfish Nachos. They're full of tasty bites of crawfish garnished with the flavors of lime, cilantro, and jalapeno peppers. It's not a nacho but a Cajun Crawcho!
Fish In Red Gravy
Fish In Red Gravy was one of my Mawmaw Trahan's best dishes and is still a family favorite today. It's red tomato sauce and seasonings simmer for hours, achieving a deep, rich taste before adding fish fillets such as redfish or catfish. This simple yet very satisfying stew is a pleasant alternative to the fried fish dinner.
Cajun Cake Recipe: Pineapple, Coconut, Pecan Cake
The old-fashioned Cajun Cake Recipe is a homemade, super-moist indulgence. Because of its hidden ingredient, a whole can of crushed pineapple and the fresh-baked cake is frosted with ooey-gooey coconut pecan icing. The common pantry ingredients make it a quick dessert for any occasion!
Chicken Sauce Piquant Recipe, A Smothered Cajun Stew
This spicy Chicken Sauce Piquant has stewed chicken and a rusty red Cajun country gravy. Serve it over a bed of white rice for an authentic Cajun classic dish.
La Bouille Recipe, Old Fashioned Cajun Custard
La Bouille Recipe (pronounced boo-YEE) is an old-fashioned dessert from South Louisiana. It's a light, creamy, buttery vanilla custard that's quick and easy to make. This Cajun comfort food is served hot or cold, sometimes with cake or in a sweet dough tart.
Simple Cajun Aioli : The Spicy Garlic Mayo Sauce
Discover the many uses of a mayo-based sauce flavored with garlic, hot sauce, and spicy seasonings in this Simple Cajun Aioli sauce. Try it slathered in a shrimp po'boy sandwich or as a dip for perfect fried chicken breast. It's a spicy treat anyway you serve it!
Louisiana Crunch Cake, A Coconutty Southern Recipe
Louisiana Crunch Cake is a lovely, moist, buttery pound cake with a sugary coating on the outside. This one is drizzled with a cane syrup glaze and topped with lots of crunchy toasted coconut flakes and pecans—it's the perfect Southern coffee cake!
Cajun Roux Recipe And An Easy Lesson
This Cajun Roux Recipe is easy to follow and a delicious start to many Cajun dishes. You only need heat, flour and oil, a heavy pot, and a spoon with some mean stirring abilities. I'll show you how!
Smothered Okra For Gumbo
A pot of Smothered Okra for gumbo is prepared with a medley of vegetables. This traditional Cajun stew is a flavorful base that thickens a gumbo, replacing a classic flour and oil roux. It's a timesaver stored in the freezer, sitting ready when there's a need for a pot of okra gumbo.
Fish Cakes Made With Sacalait (Crappie or White Perch)
A pan-fried sacalait (white perch or crappie) fish cake made with dried herbs and vegetables from Zydeco Chop Chop blend and vegetables seasoned with some Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning.
Louisiana Shrimp And Corn Soup, A Cajun Recipe
A steamy bowl of Louisiana Shrimp and Corn Soup is a favorite Cajun dish. With its spicy tomatoey broth, this comforting soup balances the sweetness of corn and shrimp flavors. Warmth for the body, good for the soul!
Louisiana Comeback Sauce, A Best Southern Recipe
This tantalizing Louisiana Comeback Sauce is kin to a remoulade and neighboring Mississippi's Comeback Sauce. It whips up in minutes with just four ingredients.
Cajun-Style Smothered Green Beans With Potatoes
Perfectly cooked Smothered Green Beans with potatoes get their flavor from Cajun seasonings, smoky bacon and ham, and an oniony sauce. This delicious dish dresses up a plain old vegetable for an impressive yet easy side dish, Cajun-style.
Southern Louisiana Coleslaw Buttermilk Recipe
This Southern Louisiana Coleslaw features a buttermilk dressing that tastes like Southern cuisine. It also features unique Louisiana ingredients that set this crunchy salad apart.
Mardi Gras Salad With Asparagus
This sweet and tangy marinated Mardi Gras Salad has the traditional purple, green, and gold colors of a Fat Tuesday celebration. It's served cold with a crisp bite, perfect for Mardi Gras season, but can be enjoyed anytime.
Easy Corn Maque Choux, Cajun Side Dish Recipe
Corn Maque choux (pronounced "mock shoe") is a classic Cajun recipe of corn smothered in a medley of onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and garlic. It's the perfect example of Louisiana cooking for a side dish that's so easy to prepare.
Shrimp Stew With Eggs
There are two ways to make Shrimp Stew With Eggs. One is to boil the eggs and add them to the stew's gravy, but recently, I've discovered another way that I think I might like better. It starts with a roux and ends with freshly cracked eggs poured right into the gravy for poaching. It's a delicious denouement to another classic Cajun dish. If you like a soft-centered egg, you may prefer it this way, too!
Comforting Cajun Meatball Stew
A satisfying Cajun-style Meatball Stew of moist, tender, meaty meatballs cooked in a dark, rich gravy surrounded by diced carrots and potatoes. Serve them over hot rice, and this meal will meet all of the Southern comfort food criteria.
Couche Couche Recipe, A Cajun Mama's Breakfast Cereal
Many Cajun mamas feed their families with this traditional Couche Couche Recipe. It's a Cajun delicacy of hot cereal made of pan-fried cornmeal mush, usually served in milk or coffee milk and sweetened with cane syrup. These cornbread crumbles make a quick and filling meal for any time of day!
Fig Pepper Jelly
This Fig Pepper Jelly is made with fresh figs, jalapeno peppers, and warm honey for a perfect blend of sweet heat. This is not your regular fig jam. It's not just for stuffing in a biscuit; it can also be topped with softened cream cheese and served with crackers, as a glaze for meats, a dip for fresh fruits, or warmed up and poured over ice cream.
Croquesignoles Or French Donuts
These Cajun French donuts are my Great-Grandma George's recipe called Cronquesingnoles (pronounced, "cro-see-alls"). With a taste of nutmeg this sweet and crunchy pastry couples well with a good cup of hot coffee.
Deboned Stuffed Chicken: With An Easy Tutorial
The Deboned Stuffed Chicken is a Southern Louisiana specialty meat item, stuffed with delicious fillings such as dressing, meat, or vegetables. It is heavily seasoned with a Cajun seasoning blend and yields juicy chicken flavor when sliced into each boneless serving.
These classic recipes from my kitchen sample what Cajun families cook throughout South Louisiana. Along with a few Creole dishes, they are a delicious tribute to Louisiana's uniqueness and its people. Enjoy!
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"In cooking, as in life, there’s always something new to learn."
Justin Wilson
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