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Easy Mardi Gras Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated March 05, 2019
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Celebrate Fat Tuesday by trying the best Cajun, Creole, and New Orleans-influenced dishes that are easy for any time of the day.
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Cajun Pork Tenderloin

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Chances are you've got all the ingredients you'll need (except the pork) for this Cajun-inspired main in your spice rack already.

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Oysters Rockefeller

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This renowned baked oyster dish was created at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans in 1899 by the proprietor, Jules Alciatore. According to legend, the dish was created as a substitute for baked snails, which were hard to obtain from France. It was named in honor of John D. Rockefeller, at that time one of the world's richest men, because of the sauce's intense richness. The following recipe is the old Delmonico restaurant's take on the dish, with the Rockefeller sauce base used not only to make the Oysters Rockefeller appetizer, but also used as a spread on toast to create canapés.

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New Orleans Red Beans and Rice with Pickled Peppers

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In New Orleans, red beans and rice are traditionally served on Mondays because the dish uses up leftover Sunday ham. Grace Parisi likes making the recipe any day of the week, and she replaces the ham with smoky bacon.

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Vermouth-Poached Shrimp with Ginger Remoulade

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Jason McCullar reinvents shrimp remoulade, the classic New Orleans cocktail-party dish. Instead of tossing his vermouth-poached shrimp with a mayonnaise dressing, he makes a ginger-spiked dipping sauce.

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Cardamom-Cheddar Straws

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Justin Devillier upgrades classic Southern cheese straws with Sharifi's Iranian spices at his New Orleans restaurant La Petite Grocery. He sometimes swaps out the cardamom for equal amounts of ground coriander or fennel seed. "I've always assumed cheese straws originated in the Carolinas," says Devillier, "but that may be because my mother-in-law always brings them when she visits from South Carolina."

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Creole Shrimp with Garlic and Lemon

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Eco-minded chefs are cooking with wild American shrimp, but not just for ethical reasons. As Tory McPhail of Commander's Palace in New Orleans says, "They taste cleaner and crisper, since they swim in the tides."

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Crème Fraîche Biscuits

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When they're not adding a Southern ingredient to a French recipe, chefs Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing are adding a French ingredient to a Southern recipe. Here, crème fraîche takes the place of buttermilk in these extremely fluffy biscuits.

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Vanilla-Scented Beignets

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Gerald Hirigoyen's airy beignets (doughnuts) can be deep-fried a few hours in advance and recrisped in the oven just before serving.

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Doughnut Holes with Raspberry Jam

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Chef-owner Ginevra Iverson of Restaurant Eloise in Sonoma County, California, serves her light, crisp, sugared doughnut holes with sweet-tart raspberry jam. She won't send any imperfect doughnut holes into the dining room; misshapen ones, she says, become snacks for the kitchen crew: "They get slathered with jam and devoured by whomever gets to them first."

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1 of 9 Cajun Pork Tenderloin
2 of 9 Oysters Rockefeller
3 of 9 New Orleans Red Beans and Rice with Pickled Peppers
4 of 9 Vermouth-Poached Shrimp with Ginger Remoulade
5 of 9 Cardamom-Cheddar Straws
6 of 9 Creole Shrimp with Garlic and Lemon
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8 of 9 Vanilla-Scented Beignets
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