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Cajun Gumbo Foodways

Specialised

Dark roux, stock, the trinity, and then chicken and andouille, or seafood, or game. Usually no tomato. Thickened by roux, sometimes finished with filé. Served over rice. One of two gumbos in this dataset, and gumbo is not an exclusively Cajun dish.

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What is recorded

  • Cajun and Creole gumbo are recorded as two dishes. Cajun gumbo typically runs a darker roux and omits tomato; Creole gumbo more often uses tomato, butter, seafood and okra or filé. Household and parish variation is wide enough that these are tendencies, not rules — and gumbo is not exclusively Cajun. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Creole Gumbo Foodways documented

    Two gumbos. Roux colour, tomato, thickener and protein all differ, and both are gumbo.

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