Andouille Sausage Seasoning

Smoky and packed with flavor, our Andouille Seasoning brings the lush cuisine of the American South to life. This garlic-forward blend has a considerable amount of heat from cayenne pepper and smoke from the chili powder and paprika. Mace and allspice add their sweet, woodsy fragrance and biting, peppery and antiseptic qualities. The herbal notes from thyme, sage, and bay leaves lift the palate up at the finish, with the grassy flavor of the bay leaves stretching long into flavorful twilight, all punctuated by salt. We blend our Andouille Sausage Seasoning in-house in small batches, to preserve the freshness and flavor of this blend.

Andouille sausage has its origins in France, but has transformed into its own entity and a specialty of the American South thanks to the intermingled cultures in 18th-century Louisiana. In the early 1700s, German immigrants brought their cooking techniques and culture to Louisiana and settled along the west bank of the Mississippi River, on what the French settlers in that region soon dubbed the “German Coast”. Fifty years later Cajuns—once known as Acadians, French emigres who had settled in Canada’s Acadia region—were forcibly expelled from Acadia and came southward, settling near the German Coast and starting a tradition of cultural exchange. Both French and German cuisines have a strong history of sausage making; with the additional influence of native Americans and Spanish and African people in the area, turned Andouille into the hearty, heavily seasoned and doubly-smoked sausage we know today.

Tips From Our Kitchen

This is certainly a beautiful seasoning blend to use when making sausages, but it can also be used as a dry marinade when prepping a pork shoulder to make pulled pork, and can also be easily mixed into meatballs or richly sauced chicken dishes, like Cajun butter chicken. It would be a great addition to red beans and rice, particularly if you wanted to keep it meatless, and is lovely in a Louisiana shrimp pasta. It would be right at home in a crawfish boil. This blend does have salt in it, so please bear that in mind as you prepare your dishes and adjust salt accordingly.

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