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re: Can we talk about Couche Couche? Share a recipe?
Posted on 3/19/22 at 2:20 pm to SUB
Posted on 3/19/22 at 2:20 pm to SUB
This is how my mom would do it. I don’t have exact measurements though.
The first thing she would do is take a dry frying pan and then toast the cornmeal to a golden brown. Then she would take a pot with milk in it and scald the milk then she would add a lot of butter. When the butter melted she would start adding the toasted cornmeal until it was the consistency she wanted then she would taste it to see if it needs salt. She ate it just like that I added steen’s to mine.
The first thing she would do is take a dry frying pan and then toast the cornmeal to a golden brown. Then she would take a pot with milk in it and scald the milk then she would add a lot of butter. When the butter melted she would start adding the toasted cornmeal until it was the consistency she wanted then she would taste it to see if it needs salt. She ate it just like that I added steen’s to mine.
This post was edited on 3/19/22 at 2:24 pm
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Posted on 3/19/22 at 3:21 pm to SUB
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What is your experience with couche couche? Is a proper dish of it good? If yes, why is it not talked about more here? I can barely find any threads on it.
Anyone care to share a recipe?
Dad used to make it in the dead of winter. Warm and filling.
You make a simple batter out of cornmeal, water, salt, and baking powder. Heat up some oil in a black iron pot, and when it's hot, pour all the batter in. Let it sit untouched for a few minutes to really crisp up the bottom. Then you stir everything up to break up and distribute the crunchy, turn the heat way down, and slap the lid on to let it steam until cooked, stirring every couple of minutes to make sure everything is even. Usually takes about 20 minutes.
Crack open a jar of homemade fig preserves, slap some couche couche in a bowl, dollop the figs on top, then add milk like you would breakfast cereal, and go to town.
This post was edited on 3/19/22 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 3/19/22 at 7:01 pm to SUB
Couche Couche:
Cajun couche couche comes from the word coucher (to sleep in French). Way back in the day it was eaten as a snack before bed. Eventually it became a breakfast. It’s is a cornbread like dish, often soaked in some cold milk or café au lait, and jams/preserves/or steens on top
Cous cous:
Cajun couche couche comes from the word coucher (to sleep in French). Way back in the day it was eaten as a snack before bed. Eventually it became a breakfast. It’s is a cornbread like dish, often soaked in some cold milk or café au lait, and jams/preserves/or steens on top
Cous cous:
Posted on 3/19/22 at 10:50 pm to SUB
I used to get it at Cafe des Amis in Breaux Bridge with milk and Steens.
Also used to like their oreille de cochon (pig-ear shaped beignets stuffed with boudin and topped with powdered sugar)
That place was a gem.
Also used to like their oreille de cochon (pig-ear shaped beignets stuffed with boudin and topped with powdered sugar)
That place was a gem.
Posted on 3/20/22 at 10:05 am to moontigr
Couche Couche with a fried egg. Mash the Couche Couche into the yolk. After the yolk is gone, put some Steens on it. My Maw Maw would cook it opening day of squirrel season every year.
Posted on 3/20/22 at 1:54 pm to LoneStarRanger
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Cajun couche couche comes from the word coucher (to sleep in French).
That’s interesting. I always thought (assumed?) it was derived from couscous.
Posted on 3/20/22 at 5:41 pm to moontigr
Couche Couche with a fried egg. Mash the Couche Couche into the yolk. After the yolk is gone, put some Steens on it. My Maw Maw would cook it opening day of squirrel season every year.
Posted on 3/20/22 at 8:14 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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That’s interesting. I always thought (assumed?) it was derived from couscous.
"Couche" comes from coucher (to sleep/to lay down), but the actual word "couche" is an exclamation/command. It means "Sleep!" or in this case, "sleep!, sleep!" or "lay down!" My cajun is not great, but I believe in Cajun, it's the former. Whereas in French, it's almost always the latter.
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