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| Travel Guide 2 > USA > Recipes |
American Recipes
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- Cajun and Creole cuisine
(mostly eaten in the state of Louisiana)
is inspired by
French cuisine's traditions,
although of course using American ingredients.
- Hawaiian cuisine combines Western and Polynesian traditions,
and also includes many recipes adapted from
Asian cuisine.
- New England cuisine is known for
fine seafood, and most especially lobsters.
- Puerto Rican cuisine often combines traditions from
Spanish cuisine with ideas from
Caribbean cuisine.
- Southwestern cuisine includes many items inspired by Mexican cuisine.
- Chicago-style pizza -
A deep-dish variety of pizza,
originally from Chicago.
- Chili con carne - A spicy stew made from meat (usually beef) and chile peppers.
Some recipes also add other ingredients such as beans, onions, and tomatoes, although
there are also people who adamantly say the recipe should not include such ingredients.
- Clam chowder
- A soup,
created from a milk or cream base, and
containing clams, flour, onions, potato, and bacon or salted pork.
There are two main variations on the recipe:
- A version of the recipe traditionally made in New York, sometimes known as "Manhattan clam chowder", which contains tomatoes.
- A recipe traditionally made in New England, sometimes known as "New England clam chowder" or "Boston clam chowder". which does not contain tomatoes.
- Club Sandwich
- A sandwich made using three layers of toast and two layers of filling.
One layer of filling traditionally contains chicken or turkey breast. The
other layer of filling traditionally contains
bacon, lettuce and tomato slices. There are many variations on the basic
recipe, some of which add slices of cheese or cooked egg.
- Corn dog - A fast-food snack, traditionally eaten at fairs and other events.
It is a hot dog, covered in cornmeal batter, and then deep-fried or baked.
Corndogs are usually served on wooden sticks, and are usually eaten with
ketchup,
mayonnaise, mustard, or a relish.
- Congealed salad - A salad made from flavored gelatin into which
are embedded fruit or vegetables such as grated carrots.
Sometimes other ingredients such as
cream cheese, marshmellows, nuts, or pretzels may be added instead.
- Eggs Benedict - Half an English muffin topped
with bacon or ham, poached eggs, and
Hollandaise sauce.
- Fried chicken - Chicken coated in seasoned flour and then deep-fried.
Fried chicken is particularly associated with
Southern cuisine
and with
Soul Food.
- Grits - One of
Southern cuisine's
most famous dishes.
It is a porridge made from maize, and made be eaten either for breakfast
or a side-dish with another meal.
- Gumbo - A
soup
originally from
Cajun and Creole cuisine.
It has subsequently
become widely popular along the whole coast of the Gulf Mexico, and
has also been adopted by
many Soul Food eateries and
restaurants.
The
soup
is made from
meat or fish stock and containing bell peppers, celery and onion.
Dried ground sassafras leaves ("filé powder), okra, or
roux (wheat flour and fat) are used to thicken the soup,
and other ingredients usually
include assorted assorted meat, smoked pork
or sausage, and shellfish.
- Johnny cakes - Fried pancakes made from cornmeal.
- Key lime pie - This is a traditional dessert originally from the
Florida keys.
The dish is made from condensed milk rather
than fresh milk, because in the days before refridgeration, it was hard or impossible to obtain fresh
milk in the Florida Keys.
Key limes, which are small limes native to the Florida Keys, are also
essential to the dish.
The key limes, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks,
are all prepared in a pie crust,
and additionally egg whites are also often used to make a meringue topping.
- Laulau - A modern adaptation of a traditional recipe of
Hawaiian cuisine,
and usually served macaroni or rice salad.
Laulau is made from salted butterfish and
meat (beef, chicken or pork), all placed inside a taro leaf.
- Jambalaya -
Cajun and Creole cuisine's
adaptation of the Spanish recipe, paella.
Instead of saffron, tomato is used for flavoring.
As well as rice, the dish
contains assorted local meat, seafood and vegetables.
- New York-style pizza - A style of
pizza
originally from
New York (and still popular in that city).
The pizza is made into large very thin wide slices, which are
folded in half when eaten.
- Poke - A salad made according to a
Hawaiian recipe.
The salad contains raw fish, fly fish roe ("tobiko"), tofu, onions, scallions and tomatoes.
It is lavored using chillis or red pepper, sea salt,
sesame oil and
soy sauce.
- Pumpkin pie - A pie containing a pumpkin-based custard.
The pie is particularly associated with
Halloween,
and is also popular at
Christmas and
Thanksgiving.
Spices such as cinnamon, cloves and ginger are used from flavoring,
and it is often served accompanied by
whipped cream.
- Spam teriyaki - A favorite of
Hawaiian cuisine,
made using Spam (the canned meat product by the Hormel Food Corporation).
The dish is made using
Japanese cuisine's teriyaki style of cooking (cooking meat in
a sweet
soy sauce, known as "teriyaki sauce").
- Shrimp Creole - A Creole recipe,
this dish consists of shrimps
in a spicy peppery sauce made from tomatoes, celery, onion, and bell peppers,
and then served over rice.
- Succotash - A dish with its origins in
native American cuisine,
Succotash is made from butter beans, corn, and tomatoes,
which are cooked together in butter.
- Tacos - A U-shaped crispy corn tortilla stuffed with various fillings.
Typical fillings include
ground beef, cheese, lettuce, sour cream, and tomatoes.
- Waldorf salad - A world famous salad named after the Waldorf Hotel (the forerunner of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel) in New York, where the salad was invented. The salad is made from apple, celery and walnuts, all in a mayonnaise sauce.
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