Tasso
A Cajun specialty, tasso is a lean, seasoned cut of cured pork.
Tat soi
Spoon cabbage.
Tasso - A lean and highly-seasoned piece of cured pork or beef, tasso is hard to find outside of Louisiana. It's used like ham or salt pork to flavor pastas, beans, and other dishes.
tasso (TAH-soh) - Tasso is yet another example of the Cajun and Creole desire for unique flavor in a recipe. Tasso is a dried smoked product that is seasoned with cayenne pepper, garlic and salt and heavily smoked.
tasso = tasso ham Notes: This is a heavily smoked ham with a spicy, peppery rind. It's often used in Cajun dishes. Substitutes: smoked ham OR Canadian bacon
Virginia ham See country ham.
Chicken and Tasso Jambalaya
Most sources say jambalaya is from "jambon," the French word for "ham," an appropriate heritage for a Creole dish, plus the African "ya," meaning "rice."
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For example, you can add tasso, a type of Cajun smoked pork to pork gumbo, or shrimp, crabmeat, and oysters to the seafood gumbo.
Meat ingredients may include andouille sausage or tasso ham. Alternatives could be chorizo or linguica sausage. Shrimp and chicken can also be added to the pork sausage to provide additional complements to this Cajun dish.
Tasso, also known as Cajun ham, can sometimes be subsituted for Andouille, but if combined in a main dish, it may not offer the distinct flavors of Andouille and may also add too much of a smoky flavor to the food.
 See also: Pork, Season, Cajun, Seasonings, Spice
  
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