Shopping Lists: DIRTY RICE

Dirty Rice is a flavorful Cajun rice dish made from white rice. It gets its “dirty” color from finely chopped chicken livers and ground beef or pork. The chicken livers give it an awesome deep flavor. Even if you think you don’t like chicken livers, you should try adding them. Since they are finely chopped, the overall dish doesn’t have much of a chicken liver flavor. We used to travel to Marksville La. And to get there, we would travel through a little town called Bayou Chicot. On the side of the road was a little hole in the wall diner where we would stop, they had what I considered to be the world’s best Dirty Rice. I asked for the recipe and was told it was the standard generic dirty rice everyone in Louisiana makes, except, in addition to the ground meat and chicken livers, he liked to add chicken gizzards and hearts to his. You wouldn’t think it would make that big of a difference, but that lagniappe added so much to the final dish! So here is his recipe, in all its glory! Oh… and lagniappe is pronounced “lan yap” and means “a little something extra”. 1 c. chicken hearts 1 c. chicken gizzards 1 c. chicken livers 1 lb. ground pork 1 med. Onion 1 bundle green onions 1 celery stalk 1 garlic clove 1 c. chicken broth 4 c. cooked rice vegetable oil salt and pepper

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