Easy Dinner Recipes

If you’re looking for a quick and easy étouffée recipe using Chilau Flavor base, then this beginner-friendly Shrimp and Sausage Étoufée recipe is just the thing! This dish is perfect for serving to guests or for family meals. This recipe takes about 30 minutes from start to finish using your choice of proteins, veggies, and starches to create your own signature dish. This time around I chose Shrimp and Sausage, but crawfish, chicken, crab, and other proteins are great options to "Put Your Spin On it!"

Etouffee - pronounced (uh-too-fay) French for "smothered," etouffee is a dish of seafood or meat simmered in roux sauce. A style of Creole cuisine mainly produced in the U.S. state of Louisiana, Etouffee is a dish that is often served with rice or boiled potatoes. Basically, if you’ve never tasted it before, it’s a dish full of vegetables, shrimp, and shellfish smothered in a Cajun-style sauce made from roux and tomatoes. The dish is seasoned with onions, celery, bell pepper, green onion, garlic and herbs. There are many ways to make Etouffee but one of the simplest yet delicious version is this Chilau way.

This by far is my favorite Chilau Sauce recipe aside from Tampa Style Crab Chilau, it's also the easiest. I was inspired to make it after a visit to New Orleans and tasting a creamy crawfish soup whipped up by my friend's mom!  I named it Bisque-Touffee because at first taste I was like, "this tastes like a New Orleans style bisque" and my wife, who attended college in Louisiana, said, "naaaah that's étouffée!" Needless to say, we got a compound word and an amazing recipe!