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Mardi Gras Recipes To Make For Your Fat Tuesday Feast

Beignets, jambalaya, gumbo, crawfish bread and much more.
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Taste Senior Editor, HuffPost

Whatever your connection to Mardi Gras, if you’re not in it for the food you are doing it wrong. Mardi Gras, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday, is all about indulging in rich, heavy foods. (Fat Tuesday comes right before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of a fasting period for Christians.) So on Mardi Gras, we feast.

And because the home of the most famous Mardi Gras carnival celebration is New Orleans, we feast on foods that are inspired by the southern city.

No matter how near or far you are from New Orleans, you can recreate some of its best dishes from the comfort of your home. Yes, even the world-famous beignets. And we have the recipes you need to make that happen ― 18 of them, to be exact.

1
Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Slow Cooker Jambalaya recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
2
Puffy Pillow Beignets
Lady and pups/Food52
Get the Puffy Pillow Beignets from Lady and pups via Food52
3
Shrimp Etouffee
Simply Recipes
Get the Shrimp Etouffee recipe from Simply Recipes
4
Chocolate Praline Cake
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Chocolate Praline Cake recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
5
Gumbo Dip
Annies Eats
Get the Gumbo Dip recipe from Annie's Eats
6
Crawfish Bread
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Crawfish Bread recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
7
Fried Catfish Po'Boys
Girl Carnivore
Get the Fried Catfish Po'Boys recipe from Girl Carnivore
8
Quick Biscuit Beignets
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Quick Biscuit Beignets recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
9
Crawfish Fettuccine
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Crawfish Fettuccine recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
10
Bourbon Pecan Pralines
Brown Eyed Baker
Get the Bourbon Pecan Pralines recipe from Brown Eyed Baker
11
Jambalaya
Gimme Some Oven
Get the Jambalaya recipe from Gimme Some Oven
12
Classic Bread Pudding
Simply Recipes
Get the Classic Bread Pudding recipe from Simply Recipes
13
Secret Gumbo
Half Baked Harvest
Get the Secret Gumbo recipe from Half Baked Harvest
14
Shrimp Po' Boys With Avocado Mango Slaw
Half Baked Harvest
Get the Shrimp Po' Boys With Avocado Mango Slaw recipe from Half Baked Harvest
15
Banana Nut Pancakes
A Beautiful Mess
Pancakes are typically associated with Fat Tuesday because on this day Christians would use up all their eggs, butter and eggs which were forbidden during lent.

Get the Banana Nut Pancakes recipe from A Beautiful Mess
16
Passion Fruit Hurricane
Spicy Southern Kitchen
Get the Passion Fruit Hurricane recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen
17
King Caked Filled Two Ways
Lemon Sugar
Get the King Cake Filled Two Ways recipe from Lemon Sugar
18
Moon Pies
Brown Eyed Baker
Get the Moon Pies recipe from Brown Eyed Baker

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