Mardi Gras Recipes To Make For Your Fat Tuesday Feast

Whatever your connection to Mardi Gras, if you’re not in it for the food you are doing it wrong. Mardi Gras, otherwise known as Fat Tuesday, is all about indulging in rich, heavy foods. (Fat Tuesday comes right before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of a fasting period for Christians.) So on Mardi Gras, we feast.

And because the home of the most famous Mardi Gras carnival celebration is New Orleans, we feast on foods that are inspired by the southern city.

No matter how near or far you are from New Orleans, you can recreate some of its best dishes from the comfort of your home. Yes, even the world-famous beignets. And we have the recipes you need to make that happen ― 18 of them, to be exact.

Slow Cooker Jambalaya

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Get the Slow Cooker Jambalaya recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen

Puffy Pillow Beignets

Lady and pups/Food52

Get the Puffy Pillow Beignets from Lady and pups via Food52

Shrimp Etouffee

Simply Recipes

Get the Shrimp Etouffee recipe from Simply Recipes

Chocolate Praline Cake

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Get the Chocolate Praline Cake recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen

Gumbo Dip

Annies Eats

Get the Gumbo Dip recipe from Annie's Eats

Crawfish Bread

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Get the Crawfish Bread recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen

Fried Catfish Po'Boys

Girl Carnivore

Get the Fried Catfish Po'Boys recipe from Girl Carnivore

Quick Biscuit Beignets

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Get the Quick Biscuit Beignets recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen

Crawfish Fettuccine

Spicy Southern Kitchen

Get the Crawfish Fettuccine recipe from Spicy Southern Kitchen

Bourbon Pecan Pralines

Brown Eyed Baker

Get the Bourbon Pecan Pralines recipe from Brown Eyed Baker

Jambalaya

Gimme Some Oven

Get the Jambalaya recipe from Gimme Some Oven

Classic Bread Pudding

Simply Recipes

Get the Classic Bread Pudding recipe from Simply Recipes

Secret Gumbo

Half Baked Harvest

Get the Secret Gumbo recipe from Half Baked Harvest

Shrimp Po' Boys With Avocado Mango Slaw

Half Baked Harvest

Get the Shrimp Po' Boys With Avocado Mango Slaw recipe from Half Baked Harvest

Banana Nut Pancakes

A Beautiful Mess

Pancakes are typically associated with Fat Tuesday because on this day Christians would use up all their eggs, butter and eggs which were forbidden during lent.

Get the Banana Nut Pancakes recipe from A Beautiful Mess

Passion Fruit Hurricane