Boudin sausage showdown
What’s the best Boudin sausage in Louisiana? We venture out and try to find the answer on our RV adventure to the New Orleans area.
Boudin is a sausage that is native to Louisiana and is made with pork, rice and spices and veggies. We had never heard of it before our trip to New Orleans but friends recommended that we try it and gave us places to get it.
The thing that surprised us the most is how big a thing this is there. Not only are there a number of places that make it, but these places are a huge deal. They have drive-through windows where you can get Boudin sausage and are large local places that are full butcher shops. But what they really sell is Boudin.
Boudin is not just pork sausage, but we saw crawfish Boudin, alligator Boudin and more.
From Cajun Food Tours, “Even though Cajuns would never call boudin a “sausage,” Google likes to describe it that way. Boudin is made from a blend of pork cooked down with onions, peppers, seasonings, & cooked rice. This completely cooked mixture is then stuffed into a casing like sausage. To pronounce it correctly, boo – like a ghost says, and then start like you’re saying the name Dan, but just don’t pronounce the n on the end!
Boudin in Cajun Country can be found at grocery stores, delis, gas stations, weddings, birthday parties, holiday parties, but very rarely in a restaurant.
The video here is our test of the three Boudan sources that were most highly recommended. This is really a silly endeavor but how else would you write-off a trip to New Orleans that involved food?
Where did we go?
The places we tried were:
The cookware we used was our Magma nesting pots
So which was our favorite? Watch the video to learn more.
New Orleans
This fun video was just one of our take-aways for our RV trip to New Orleans. If you’d like to learn ideas and tips for visiting New Orleans in an RV, we have a story about that too!