beignets
Powdered fried pastries
Beignets are deep-fried pastries, square pillows of dough served hot and buried under powdered sugar.
Most associated with New Orleans and French Louisiana cuisine, where they're a breakfast staple often paired with café au lait: We got beignets at Café Du Monde.
The word is French, and the singular beignet appears less often in English than the plural.
Louisiana's largest city
- LouisianaGulf Coast pelican state
- CreoleFused language, stabilized
- Mardi GrasPre-Ash Wednesday celebration
- chicoryRoasted root coffee alternative
French Quarter · café au lait · praline · po'boy · zydeco · Bourbon Street · bayou · Acadian
Cooked submerged in fat
- oilSlippery viscous fluid
- goldenBright yellow, or precious
- crispyBrittle and snapping
- sizzleSound of frying
puffy · hot · fritter · temperature · drain · splatter · bubbling · tongs
Twice-cooked pastry dough
- yeastFermenting fungus
- flourMilled grain powder
- kneadingManual dough development
- risingAct of ascending
proofing · leavening · elasticity · gluten · fermentation · hydration · texture · mixer
Ridged fried-dough pastry
- zeppoleItalian fried dough pastries
- sopapillasFried puffed pastry
- puffBrief burst of air
- fritterFried batter cake
New Orleans
Louisiana's largest city
- LouisianaGulf Coast pelican state
- CreoleFused language, stabilized
- Mardi GrasPre-Ash Wednesday celebration
chicory · French Quarter · café au lait · praline · po'boy · zydeco · Bourbon Street · bayou · Acadian · patisserie
deep-fried
Cooked submerged in fat
sizzle · puffy · hot · fritter · temperature · drain · splatter · bubbling · tongs · cottonseed
choux
Twice-cooked pastry dough
rising · proofing · leavening · elasticity · gluten · fermentation · hydration · texture · mixer · brioche
churros
Ridged fried-dough pastry
- zeppoleItalian fried dough pastries
- sopapillasFried puffed pastry
- puffBrief burst of air
confectioners
Makers of candy
white · sifted · coating · sprinkle · avalanche · messy · mountain · cascade · blizzard · drift
sugar
Crystalline carbohydrate sweetener
vanilla · cinnamon · glaze · jam · Nutella · fruit · berry · apple · syrup · filled
- dessertscake, cookies, pie, cupcakes, pudding
- Louisiana cuisinegumbo, jambalaya, crawfish, etouffee, po'boy
- fried pastriescrullers, churros, honey cruller
- fair foodfunnel cake, corn dogs, cotton candy, turkey leg, elephant ear
- fried doughdonut, donuts, doughnuts, churro, churros
- LouisianaNew Orleans, Baton Rouge, Bourbon Street, Shreveport, French Quarter
beignetscrackers
Crispy flat biscuits
plain bread · rice cakes · vegetables · salad · health food