What is a popular Cajun sausage-like dish made from ingredients sewn up in a pig's stomach? The stuffing includes spices, pork, rice, and vegetables, including onions and peppers.

Chaudin, which is a stuffed pig's stomach. Butchers generally use their fresh pork sausage mixtures to stuff a pig's stomach. Like all Cajun sausages, it's available fresh or smoked. Shaped like a small cushion, chaudin is generally smothered in what we call a Holy Trinity Gravy. Make a roux, brown chopped onion, bell pepper, celery and some garlic for seasoning in the roux, add water, broth or wine to make a gravy, put the chaudin in the gravy and cook, covered, in a Dutch oven until it's done. Serve sliced, over rice.

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Larry Freeman

Boudin is made mostly of pork heart and liver... and is stuffed in a casing (in old days, the intestine sheath) about the size of a hot link. As noted above chaudin is stuffed into the pig's stomach before being cooked--which keeps it from being called boudin.

✨KRISTA✨

tvisco, I am totally with you on this one!😝

elizawheeler

Something about looking at a cute little picture of a piggy and then talking about butchering just seems gross. That's why I'm vegetarian, I guess.

MellieMcG

Steve Bjortvedt, I, too, grew up in Beaumont, TX--never heard of Chaudin!

Deanna Morrison

I completely guessed the answer and was right.

Stella Maris Rodriguez Guarino

I like to cook My mom was a good cooker and I learned with her abou french dishes

Ravinder Singh

I have tasted this recipe in childhood it was probably sausage

Thelma McKinney

This may be delicious but I will never know from personal experience. There is no way I would ever touch it much less taste it.

Abbey Downton Katiejane

I too think it sounds disgusting. But love the info.

Carolyn Brior

Never heard of Chaudin but it sounds like something I would like.

Mark Putman

I've lived in Louisiana and its called boudin

Kevin Coleman

Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!"

Kate Foley

Shrnkrap8, Disgusting beyond description to me, I am vegan!

Cyndie Clements Stevens

Boudin blanc is stuffed in intestines or commercial sausage casing and is traditionally rice and ground up liver, heart, and other parts that are not used as often. It may contain gound onions, and is seasoned either warm hot, or blow the top of your head off. It looks like traditional sausage but is usually steamed ot baked. It does not look like Chaudin and I don't think they taste anything a like. Chaudin is more like a casserole and the containing stomach id tougher than boudin casing. Boudin noir is blood sausage cajun style.