cajun cooks only — i have been down loading cajun recipes and cant find much difference between jambalaya?
and gumbo. is this a ethnic thing or am i missing something. in one gumbo recipe it says to put the schrimp shells in with the chicken,schrimp andandouille sausage but never says anything about taking them out and why put them in anyway. and to make the roux would it be ok to use corn starch and water. will be waiting with my yankee bells on
the shells and everything except the kitchen sink(only because we haven’t learned how to tenderize it !!!) are boiled together to make a stock…strain…discarding everthing but the juice(stock) and meat……
corn starch is actually better to thicken a gravy……flour and oil is all it takes for a roux….take a gumbo,add uncooked rice,cook until the juices are almost completely absorbed by the rice….you will now have jambalaya…..kitchen buquet will give it color needed
Any Good Cajun Sauce Recipes?
Alright here’s my dilemma. I’m in need of a decent Cajun sauce recipe of some kind. NOTHING COMPLICATED OR OUTRAGEOUS. I’m not sure how many of you have ever had (or even heard of) a Cajun wrap from the Cookout fast food restaurants. Doesn’t matter I don’t suppose. Anyways, it’s just a chicken strip wrapped in a tortilla with lettuce, cheese, and their Cajun sauce. It’s delicious. I got a couple friends who work there, and they all tell me that their Cajun wrap’s sauce consist of their Cajun spice (which they put on fries and other things; it’s some kind of Cajun "dust") and Texaspete.. and thats it.
I’d like to try this at home, though, but I don’t have a clue what I could make my own Cajun sauce out of. Any suggestions would be great!
Here are a couple ideas:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cajun-Spice-Seasoning-Mix-in-a-Jar/Detail.aspx
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cajun-Spice-Mix-2/Detail.aspx
I would sprinkle my chicken with this spice before cooking. I think this is what you’re looking for.
Hope this helps!
rb
Cajun Cooking for your anniversary?
Cajun Cooking
I’d like to cook something special for my anniversary dinner. Each year I pick recipes from the world and I thought this year we could try Cajun Cooking. The one who gives me something like “family recipes” (I mean a recipe that is not taken from the internet) gets 10 pts.
Thank you and hugs from Italy 
Cajun Cooking
Traditional Cajun Cooking would include Turduckins (duck breast stuffed in a chicken stuffed in a turkey) & stuffed chickens. (Both are traditional French recipes long forgotten but rediscovered here in creole & cajun country)
With either, you would first de-bone the bird or ask your local butcher to do it for you(except for the wings), season the interior, then stuff with your choice of dressing. I like to stuff my birds with crayfish etoufee, Jambalaya(my favorite), dirty rice, Boudin, or something more “american” say Broccoli & Cheese rice casserole. Then I like to cook my bird in a clay pot.(I know that you can get your hands on a clay pot for sure in Italy!) Take root vegetables (potatoes, onions, shallots, carrots’ parsnips) & some mushrooms & place them on the bottom of the clay pot. Add a good full bodied red wine like Cabernet, merlot, sangiovese, granache or pinot noir (not chianti!) to the bottom to give a good flavor & add moisture. Place chicken on top of vegetables. Add fresh rosemary, garlic, sage & thyme then season appropriately with sea salt & fresh ground pepper. Cook at 375 for about 1 hour (get a meat thermometer)
DON’T FORGET TO SEASON THE INSIDE OF THE BIRD BEFORE STUFFING!!!!
Remove the bird onto a large cutting board & let cool for 10 minutes. Then with an extremely sharp knife slice the bird from side to side. This should create “Roulades” which should look like a meat circle filled with the stuffing. Season to taste & enjoy a true masterpiece!
For dessert make a white chocolate bread pudding complemented with a whiskey sauce.(recipe on the internet for bread pudding. Just add white chocolate!)
Or go for Bananas Foster
I am a manager at a Cajun Specialty Meat market & we sell about 1000 stuffed chickens every month. For more cooking instructions & ideas go to stuffedfoodstores.com
Because I think that you are in italy here are some leads on some prepackaged products that you can order; Zatatrains Jambalaya(the best), Tony Chaches creole seasonings. Paul Prudhommes seasonings (incredible)
Good Luck & happy anniversary.
Cajun Cooking
Cajun Cooking Why Do People Try To Imitate Gumbo
Cajun Cooking
Im from New Orleans La, and every time I go out of town or in a city. I see some sort of restaurant advertising cajun cooking and creole food. Most of the time I check out the restaurant because I miss home so much I decided to try my so call home food. Needless to say it is horrendous. I been to 15 so call Cajun Cooking and creole food restaurants and none of them even compare to actually new orleans natives food.
First New Orleans food is not Cajun Cooking but creole french cooking.
Gumbo Is Cajun Cooking
I see A lot of people ask for a gumbo recipe, and it just aggravates me, when they try to short stop our style of cooking. I feel as though if you are not going to cook the recipe from scratch, then your are not getting a new orleans taste of CUISINE, you are getting someone else cusine, I mean the whole point of cooking it is because you were craving for it right? However I just want to let these people know who loves gumbo but want the recipe to try and get it from the natives and not some online fake recipe. If you need my recipe or a native site I can give it to you. I just want people to respect our culture and food. And average gumbo take a day or a half. if you can cook gumbo in two or 6 hours it is not the real thing. Furthermore; lets not try to imitate other peoples culture. do it by the way it suppose to be done.
these are the things in a gumbo(shrimps, crabs, chicken, onions, celery, red, yellow, green peppers, okra, gizzards, oysters, tomatos and parsly. If you do not have all these things in your gumbo especially the seafood then you are not eating new orleans cusine rather than some other types of cusine but don’t put new orleans name to a cusine when it is not the orginal recipe
because they wanna make money just like everybody else in this troubled economy you gotta do what you gotta do
Cajun Cooking
Episode 184What are some easy cajun and/or creole recipes?
I’m a college student living in an apt for the first time. I LOVE to cook, but I’m no chef. I need something easy and somewhat inexpensive.
I love seafood, especially shrimp and crab. I like chicken and pork as well but NO beef. And I know that creole and cajun food sometimes include crayfish but I dont have access to them in this small town. I also love spicy food. So if any recipes come to mind please share!!
Creole and Cajun dishes are my favorites. You can always substitute shrimp for crawfish in your recipes. Here are some links that I saved:
Shrimp Etouffee
http://www.soulfoodandsoutherncooking.com/shrimp-etouffee-recipe.html
Jambalaya
http://www.chefrick.com/jambalaya/
Dirty Rice
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/dirty_rice.html
Corn Maque Choux
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000258936
Okra Creole
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000352451
Crab Croquettes
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/cajun_crab_croquettes.html
Shrimp Creole
http://www.chefrick.com/cajun-shrimp-creole/
Gumbo
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/soups/shr-crab-gumbo.html
Culinary Creations Creole Chicken and Seafood Gumbo
ChefJayNChttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/chefjayncHowtoCulinary, Creations, Creole, Chicken, and, Seafood, GumboCulinary Creations Creole Chicken and Seafood Gumbo
Duration : 0:8:50
Cajun Chicken
http://HowToExpo.com Cajun Seasoning and how to cook chicken with Cajun Spices.
Duration : 0:3:54
Cajun Recipes for my anniversary?
I’d like to cook something special for my anniversary dinner. Each year I pick recipes from the world and I thought this year we could have a cajun menu. The one who gives me something like “family recipes” (I mean a recipe that is not taken from the internet) gets 10 pts.
Thank you and hugs from Italy
Traditional Cajun recipes would include Turduckins (duck breast stuffed in a chicken stuffed in a turkey) & stuffed chickens. (Both are traditional French recipes long forgotten but rediscovered here in creole & cajun country)
With either, you would first de-bone the bird or ask your local butcher to do it for you(except for the wings), season the interior, then stuff with your choice of dressing. I like to stuff my birds with crayfish etoufee, Jambalaya(my favorite), dirty rice, Boudin, or something more “american” say Broccoli & Cheese rice casserole. Then I like to cook my bird in a clay pot.(I know that you can get your hands on a clay pot for sure in Italy!) Take root vegetables (potatoes, onions, shallots, carrots’ parsnips) & some mushrooms & place them on the bottom of the clay pot. Add a good full bodied red wine like Cabernet, merlot, sangiovese, granache or pinot noir (not chianti!) to the bottom to give a good flavor & add moisture. Place chicken on top of vegetables. Add fresh rosemary, garlic, sage & thyme then season appropriately with sea salt & fresh ground pepper. Cook at 375 for about 1 hour (get a meat thermometer)
DON’T FORGET TO SEASON THE INSIDE OF THE BIRD BEFORE STUFFING!!!!
Remove the bird onto a large cutting board & let cool for 10 minutes. Then with an extremely sharp knife slice the bird from side to side. This should create “Roulades” which should look like a meat circle filled with the stuffing. Season to taste & enjoy a true masterpiece!
For dessert make a white chocolate bread pudding complemented with a whiskey sauce.(recipe on the internet for bread pudding. Just add white chocolate!)
Or go for Bananas Foster
I am a manager at a Cajun Specialty Meat market & we sell about 1000 stuffed chickens every month. For more cooking instructions & ideas go to stuffedfoodstores.com
Because I think that you are in italy here are some leads on some prepackaged products that you can order; Zatatrains Jambalaya(the best), Tony Chaches creole seasonings. Paul Prudhommes seasonings (incredible)
Good Luck & happy anniversary.
Cajun Jambalaya
http://www.cajuncookingtv.com/cajun-jambalaya –
Cajun Jambalaya by Beryl Stokes is a new recipe at Cajun Cooking TV. A Cajun Jambalaya recipe does not have to come from a box, a bag or a frozen dinner.
The recipe for Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya from the Cajun Recipes at Cajun Cooking TV is easy and simple cooking. You’ll notice that we use Cajun Seasonings in just about everything.
Duration : 0:9:24