This traditional cajun three pot meal consists of fried catfish, hush puppies, and cajun cabbage with sausage. Besides the three recipes, this post will explore cajun ingredients. The 3 grains used in cajun cuisine and the Acadian food culture are corn, rice—long, medium, or short grain white and popcorn rice, and wheat. Rice proved to be a valuable commodity in early Acadiana. With an abundance of water and a hot, humid climate, rice could be grown practically anywhere in the region.

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This authentic cajun three pot meal consists of cajun meatloaf, dirty rice, and cajun maquechou--a cajun dish with corn as its basis. Cajun cuisine traditionally calls for a meat dish, a rice dish, and a vegetable dish--thus called the three pot meal. It is named for the French-speaking Acadian or Cajun immigrants deported by the British from Acadia in Canada to the Acadiana region of Louisiana. A rustic cuisine, it uses locally available ingredients, and preparation is kept simple.

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