Andouille

	Email		Print
	Bookmark		Link

Andouille

Andouille (French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
: , American English

American English

PhonologyIn many ways, compared to English language in England, North American English is conservative in its phonology. Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast of the United States , partly because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of English English at a time when those varieties we...
: (pronounced ahn-DWEE) is defined

as "a coarse-grained smoked meat made using pork

Pork

Pork is the culinary name for meat from the domestic pig . The word, pork, is often meant to denote specifically the fresh meat of the pig, but it can be used as an all-inclusive term, to include cured, smoked, or processed meats It is one of the most-commonly consumed meats worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry dating back...
, pepper

Black pepper

Black pepper is a flowering plant vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning....
, onions, wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
, and seasonings. Andouille is French in origin, and was brought to Louisiana

Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
by French

French American

French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or permanent residents of the United States of French people descent. About 11.8 million U.S....
or German

German American

German Americans are citizens of the United States of Germans ancestry, with traditions and self-identity based on German language and culture....
immigrants. Today the sausage is most often associated with Cajun

Cajun

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other ethnicities with whom the Acadians eventually intermarried on the semitropical frontier....
cooking

Cajun cuisine

Cajun cuisine originates from the French-speaking Acadian or "Cajun" immigrants deported by the British from Acadia in Canada to the Acadiana region of Louisiana, United States....
." Andouille sausages are sometimes referred to as Hot Link sausages.

Substance
Andouille is a spiced, heavily smoked pork

Pork

Sausage

A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat, animal fat, salt, and spices , typically packed in a casing . Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique....
, distinguished in some varieties by its use of the entire gastrointestinal system of the pig: for example, traditional French andouillette is composed primarily of the intestines and stomach.

Discussion

Ask a question about 'Andouille'

Start a new discussion about 'Andouille'

Answer questions from other users

Full Discussion Forum

Encyclopedia

Andouille (French

French language

American English

Pork

Black pepper

Black pepper is a flowering plant vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning....
, onions, wine

Wine

Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
by French

French American

French Americans or Franco-Americans are citizens or permanent residents of the United States of French people descent. About 11.8 million U.S....
or German

German American

Cajun

Cajun cuisine

Substance

Andouille is a spiced, heavily smoked pork

Pork

Sausage

Andouillette

Andouillette is a course-grained smoked tripe sausage made with pork, --, chitterlings, Black pepper, wine, onions, and seasonings. Andouillette sausage is a smaller version of Andouille sausage, generally smaller than one inch in diameter....
.

History of Andouille

The style of sausage is now widespread, and so it is unclear whether it originated in France, whence the name comes, or in Germany, where similar recipes also have a long history. A similar sausage, Nduja

Nduja

Nduja is a creamy, and extremely spicy pig sausage mainly produced in Calabria. The name derives from the French andouille. Nduja is made using meat from the head, minus the cheeks which are used for guanciale, trimmings from various parts of the pig, some clean skin, fatback and roasted hot red peppers which give the Nduja its characteri...
, is produced in the region of Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , is a Regions of Italy in Southern Italy Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the Ionian Sea....
in southern Italy; the name is clearly derived from the French, and it is thought that the recipe may have spread there from France during periods of French dominance in the Middle Ages. This suggests a history going back at least 1000 years.

Cajun–Style Andouille

The recipe was brought to the New World by the French colonists of Louisiana

Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
, and Cajun

Cajun

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The spiciest of all the variants, Cajun andouille is made of butt or shank meat and fat, seasoned with salt

Salt

A salt, in chemistry, is defined as the product formed from the neutralisation reaction of acids and base . Salts are ionic compounds composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically electric charge ....
, cracked black pepper

Black pepper

Black pepper is a flowering plant vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning....
, and garlic

Garlic

Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, and chive....
, and smoked over pecan

Pecan

The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky, North Carolina and western Tennessee, south through Georgia , Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas ; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracr...
wood and sugar cane for up to seven or eight hours at approximately 175°

Degree (temperature)

The term degree is used in several scale of temperature. The symbol ? is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example ??C? for degree Celsius....
F

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , who proposed it in 1724. Today, the scale has largely been replaced by the Celsius scale; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other countries such as Belize....
(80°

Degree (temperature)

The term degree is used in several scale of temperature. The symbol ? is usually used, followed by the initial letter of the unit, for example ??C? for degree Celsius....
C

Celsius

Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death....
). The resulting sausage is used in a wide range of Louisiana dishes, such as gumbo

Gumbo

Gumbo is a stew or soup originating in Louisiana, and found across the Gulf Coast of the United States and into the Southern United States. It consists primarily of a strong Stock , meat and/or shellfish, a thickener, and the vegetable "Holy trinity " of celery, bell peppers and onion....
, jambalaya

Jambalaya

Jambalaya is a Creole cuisine dish of Spanish and French influence. The dish is a New World version of the Old World dish paella. A Cajun version, loosely related to paella, was adopted after absorption of white Louisiana Creole people into the Cajun population following their fall from power in New Orleans, Louisiana after the Civil War....
, red beans and rice

Red beans and rice

Red beans and rice is an emblematic dish of Louisiana Creole cuisine, traditionally made on Mondays with common bean, vegetables , spices and pork bones as left over from Sunday dinner, cooked together slowly in a pot and served over rice....
, and étouffée

Étouffée

?touff?e or etouffee is a Creole cuisine and Cajun cuisine dish typically served with shellfish or chicken over rice, similar to gumbo, very popular in New Orleans and in the bayou country of the southernmost half of Louisiana....
. LaPlace

Laplace, Louisiana

LaPlace is a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States, along the east bank of the Mississippi River in the New Orleans metropolitan area....
, Louisiana

Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
, has proclaimed itself the Andouille Capital of the World, and holds a huge festival in October of each year.

Other uses

Andouille is also an insult

Insult

An insult is an expression, statement which is considered degrading. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An example of the wikt:latter is a well-intended simple explanation, which in fact is wikt:superfluous, but is given due to underestimating the intelligence or knowledge of the other....
in French

French language

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
slang “silly sausage”, which describes a person as stupid, foolish or naive.

External links

, a famous French variety.