Top 7 Creole and Cajun Salad Recipes
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Cajun and Creole salads offer variety, flavour and taste
The Creole and Cajun cookbook offers an endless supply of salads: from starchy favourites like potato and pasta salads, to vegetable-based salads like corn and cucumber, and chicken or seafood as the main ingredient.
Tossed green salads aren’t central to the Cajun and Creole cooking, but follow the links below to discover delicious versions of old favourites and salads you probably never would have thought of!
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Cajun Rice Salad Rice Salad. Food Moment Open / Getty Images
Now hold on to your football – it can be a picnic without a potato or pasta salad! It’s got similar ingredients, but it’s a nice change from the usual. The beauty of this salad is that the flavour of the other ingredients extends even further than potato or macaroni salad.
It has that pepper, but it’s light enough to pass for “not spicy”.
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Cajun chicken salad with pecans Cajun chicken salad with pecans. By Terri Pischoff Wuerthner
Rumor has it that Grandma designed this recipe to use two ingredients that were always in abundance: chicken (which they raised) and pecans (from the farm).
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Dad’s Creamy Pickles Pickles. Diana Rattray
This salad was a favorite because we grew it and asked for it whenever we gathered at our childhood home. It was usually made in the same great way. But every time, as a dad, it got creative, which meant using leftovers in some horribly inappropriate way. We were all terribly disappointed when he decided he didn’t want to waste some pineapple ice cream yogurt and added it to a finished salad. No one likes to waste food, but spoiling a whole dish to make use of leftovers? We learnt to shun dad’s ‘ice bag creation’.
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Coleslaw Coleslaw. by Diana Rattray
Coleslaw is delicious in itself, but my favorite serving is on sandwiches. In fact, I always make a big batch so there’s plenty of leftovers for the sandwiches – pulled pork is traditional, but I also like it with sandwiches and a salad instead of a poista. The creamy, crunchy cabbage is a wonderful contrast to the fried seafood on the boy.
Coleslaw is better several hours or a day or two after.
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Perfect Potato and Egg Salad Potato Salad. Keller & Keller / StockFood Creative / Getty Images
If it’s already good, why mix it up?
Think of any recipe that’s just the way you like it, and think of a recipe your grandmother or great-grandmother made. Family recipes are almost sacred. Your parents and siblings would be amazed if you weren’t quite upset if you brought Grandpa’s potato soup together in a different way. And don’t even think about adding some non-Cajun ingredient, like sun-dried tomatoes. People might not even try it.
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Tomato and Cucumber Salad Cucumbers and tomatoes. Adam Drobiec / EyeEm / Getty Images
Cucumbers and tomatoes seem to go together. Maybe that’s why they both ripen around the same time every summer.
The attractive colours of red, green and white complement each other, like the crisp texture of the cucumber and the soft colour of the tomato.
Easy … but a summer favourite!
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Shrimp and Roasted Red Potato Salad Red Potato Salad. Brian Hagiwara/Photolibrary/Getty Images
This elegant salad can be made at the start of the day and assembled at dinner. It can also be served as an hors d'oeuvre'with slices of potato topped with shrimp on a decorative platter.
