Cajun Maque Choux

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

Still another Southern dish shrouded in mystery is this simple Cajun concoction, which can be traced back three hundred years and which, today, is often enriched throughout Louisiana with everything from crawfish to chicken to spicy tasso ham. You won’t find this dish mentioned in even the most comprehensive food dictionaries, much less in any all-purpose cookbook, and had not the legendary Commander’s Palace in New Orleans almost singlehandedly revived maque choux years ago, chances are it