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dirty rice

American  

noun

  1. a Cajun dish of rice cooked with herbs and often chicken livers.


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The menu still features some of the same Creole flavors from when it first opened — blackened or fried catfish with dirty rice, tabasco Caesar salad, gumbo.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022

Fortunately, southern cooking has a healthy respect for this humble food, which is showcased nowhere better than in classic dirty rice.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2021

Likewise, while Louisiana dirty rice is traditionally made with ground pork, you can also use the meat from sausages.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2020

So now, alongside old favorites like Banana Bread Cockaigne, there are new recipes for kimchi mac and cheese, gobi Manchurian, miso ramen, Cajun dirty rice and chocolate babka.

From Washington Times • Nov. 12, 2019

He was cooking cow feet stew and dirty rice.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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