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chaudin

/ˈʃoʊdɪn/

chaudin noun: a sausage-like meat dish in the cuisine of Louisiana, made from pork, rice, vegetables and spices sewn up and cooked in a pig's stomach.

Noun

chaudin (countable and uncountable, plural chaudins)

  1. A sausage-like meat dish in the cuisine of Louisiana, made from pork, rice, vegetables and spices sewn up and cooked in a pig's stomach.
    • WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PANSE AND CHAUDIN? Stuffed Panse is a stuffed pork stomach, also know as Chaudin in different locals.2002, Nicole Denée Fontenot, Alicia Fontenot Vidrine, Cooking with Cajun Women: Recipes and Remembrances from South Louisiana Kitchens, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 25
    • Let the chaudin cool for 5 minutes, then cut it in 1-inch slices. Spread the slices across the platter and spoon the juices and vegetables from the ..., Jude W. Theriot, The 100 Greatest Cajun Recipes, Pelican Publishing Company, page 108

Examples of chaudin in a sentence

  • I was after a taste of chaudin, a legendary local delicacy made of a stuffed pig's stomach.2008, Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge, Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing, University of Georgia...
  • Chaudin, also called ponce, is a dish associated with boucheries.2012, C. Paige Gutierrez, Cajun Foodways, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 61:
  • Chaudin is a delicacy of French influence, originating in the bayous of southern Louisiana.2018, Jonathan Deutsch, We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 64:

Forms of chaudin

pluralchaudins

Origin of chaudin

From Cajun French chaudin (“stuffed and baked pig's stomach; pig's large intestine”), from Poitevin-Saintongeais chàudin, from Old French chaudun, from Medieval Latin caldūmen. Doublet of chawdron.

Questions about chaudin

What does chaudin mean?
Chaudin means a sausage-like meat dish in the cuisine of Louisiana, made from pork, rice, vegetables and spices sewn up and cooked in a pig's stomach.
How do you use chaudin in a sentence?
I was after a taste of chaudin, a legendary local delicacy made of a stuffed pig's stomach.
What part of speech is chaudin?
Chaudin is a noun.
How do you pronounce chaudin?
Chaudin is pronounced /ˈʃoʊdɪn/.
What is the plural of chaudin?
The plural of chaudin is chaudins.

Words near chaudin in the dictionary

  1. Chaudhrys
  2. chaudhuri
  3. chaudhuriid
  4. chaudhuriids
  5. chaudhuris
  6. chaudin
  7. chaudins
  8. Chaudière-Appalaches
  9. Chaudoin
  10. Chaudoins
  11. chaudron

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