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Slow Cooker Creole Chicken Stew and Creole Beans

September 29, 2014 by Jeanette 9 Comments

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Get two recipes in one with this Slow Cooker Creole Chicken Stew and Creole Beans, perfect for a two cozy Fall meals.

Slow Cooker Creole Chicken Stew © Jeanette's Healthy Living

My boys have loved New Orleans cuisine ever since we visited there nearly ten years ago when one of my boys’ teams was playing in the Cal Ripken World Series. Until that trip, they had never eaten Creole or Cajun style food and I was surprised at how readily they devoured crawfish gumbo.

Before we returned home from that trip, I asked one of our local hosts for a few recipes to try at home. Ever since then, I’ve been making different versions of gumbo and jambayala.

Creole and Cajun cooking is not the same. Although they both start with the same base of onions, celery and bell peppers, Creole cooking uses tomatoes; Cajun does not. Cajun cuisine is more rustic and traditionally relies on a long-cooked darker oil-based roux than the butter-based Creole version.

These two cuisines have completely different origins. Creole cuisine evolved over nearly 300 years in New Orleans, influenced by the French, Spanish, West Africa, the canary Islands and the Caribbean, as well as other parts of Europe. Cajun food, on the other hand, originated in the countryside of southwest Louisiana, where the French colonists of the Acadia region of Canada (“les Acadians”) started settling in the 1750’s.

No matter, Creole or Cajun, we love both because of the full flavors and the spice.

Slow Cooker Creole Chicken © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Recently, I made this Slow Cooker Creole Chicken Stew and didn’t want to throw out the extra sauce. After all, it’d been stewing for four hours and was full of flavor – what a waste it would have been to throw out such deliciousness. I stewed beans in the rich flavorful stewing sauce and it made another dinner the other night. You could easily turn this into soup by adding some chicken broth and greens such as spinach, kale or Swiss chard.

Slow Cooker Creole Style Beans © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Pop over toe The Gracious Pantry for the Slow Cooker Creole Chicken Stew recipe.

Slow Cooker Creole Chicken and Beans © Jeanette's Healthy Living

 

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Sources:
Huffington Post: Cajun vs. Creole
Saveur: Creole vs. Cajun

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Filed Under: Beans/Legumes, chicken, dairy-free, Dinner, gluten-free, main courses, Pantry Recipe, Slow Cooker Tagged With: beans, chicken, creole, crockpot, slow cooker

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Comments

  1. Shashi @ runninsrilankan says

    September 29, 2014 at 8:48 am

    Wonderful idea to use the leftover sauce to make these creole beans – now that’s a tasty twist on leftovers!!

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  2. Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says

    September 29, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Drooling over this!!

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  3. Angie@Angie's Recipes says

    September 29, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    I have to make these creole beans ASAP! The chicken stew looks very tasty and warming, Jeanette.

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  4. KalynsKitchen says

    September 29, 2014 at 3:18 pm

    Great idea to save the sauce and use in another dish!

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  5. Kelly // The Pretty Bee: Cooking & Creating says

    September 29, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    This looks really delicious and warming for winter! Beautiful photos!

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  6. Kelly says

    September 29, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    I love how hearty and gorgeous the stew looks! The colors are beautiful and reusing the sauce for the beans is such a great idea!

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  7. Lisa @ Healthy Nibbles & Bits says

    September 30, 2014 at 2:23 am

    I just cracked open my slow cooker this weekend, and I’m hooked! Thanks for sharing the tip about reusing sauces!

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  8. Jeanette says

    October 1, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks everyone – I’ve been using my crockpot a lot already this fall and repurposing sauces ;).

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  9. Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) says

    October 6, 2014 at 8:47 am

    I love saving the sauce from one dish to make another. It seems like such a New England thing to do!

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