Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mirliton (chayote) and sausage. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mirliton halves get stuffed with a mixture of shrimp, mirliton innards, spicy creole seasoning, butter, and the Louisiana trinity of onion, celery, and green bell Before opening up the new Treme cookbook, I couldn't pick out a mirliton if it was thrown in my face. But the squash, originally native to the region. Well, truth is, mirliton (pronounced mel-a-tawn) aka chayote squash, vegetable pears, or in Cajun Country, alligator pears, are the Unofficial Squash of Ground Beef Mirliton Casserole: Omit the crab boil, seafood and Old Bay.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mirliton (chayote) and sausage using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mirliton (Chayote) and Sausage:
- Take 3 Mirliton (Chayote)
- Take 3 cups rice cooked
- Prepare 2 lb sausage
- Make ready 2 sticks Butter
- Make ready 1 large onion
- Prepare 2 cans Stewed tomatoes
- Make ready Paprika
- Take Dried parsley
- Get Creole seasoning
Chayote - Known to Cajuns as Mirliton. They used to grow wild in our yard when I was little. Chayote or mirliton is a pear shaped light-green vegetable in the gourd family. It is very low in calories but very rich in folate vitamin and health benefiting aglycone flavonoids like apigenin and luteolin.
Instructions to make Mirliton (Chayote) and Sausage:
- Cut mirliton in half and remove seeds, boil for 30 minutes. Cook 3 cups rice as usual.
- Slice and brown sausage in a large Texas sized skillet. Remove sausage toss in 2 sticks butter.
- Slice onions long and toss in hot butter. Peel mirliton and cut into bite sized cubes, add to skillet. Saute for about 10 minutes until onions and mirliton are soft.
- Knife through the cans if Stewed tomatoes to make them a bit smaller. Add Stewed tomatoes, cooked rice and sausage to skillet, add seasonings to taste, mix, cover and simmer for about 8 minutes.
Mirlitons are gourdlike fruits that taste similar to squash; they are sometimes called chayote. Try them in this diabetic-friendly turkey and vegetable stuffed pepper side dish recipe. In a large skillet, cook turkey sausage until brown; remove from skillet. "You say mirliton, I say chayote squash. Stir in sausage, spaghetti sauce, and tomato sauce; cover and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Mirlitons are also called chayote, vegetable pear and mango squash.
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