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The cuisine of the Southern United States is defined as the regional culinary form of states generally south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and extending west to Texas.
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• Ambrosia
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• Beans - often cooked down with chunks of ham, bacon grease, or onions
• Butter or Lima beans
• Pole beans
• White or great northern beans
• Green beans
• Pinto beans
• Baked beans
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• Greens - seasoned with some kind of meat or meat grease. The liquid left after cooking is known as pot liquor
• Collard greens
• Turnip greens
• Kale
• mustard greens
• Poke salad - cooked pokeweed
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• Carrots - often "candied" with butter and brown sugar
• Carrot raisin salad
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• Congealed salad
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• Corn on the cob - boiled, steamed, or grilled; usually served with butter or mayonnaise
• Corn pudding
• Creamed corn
• Shoepeg corn
• Fried corn fritters
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• Hoppin' John - a traditional Low Country dish of black-eyed peas served with rice
• Limpin' Susan - a traditional Low Country dish made with okra, rice and black-eyed peas
• Macaroni and cheese - usually prepared with fresh eggs and baked en casserole
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• Mashed potatoes - called "creamed" in some regions
• Rutmus - potatoes boiled and mashed with turnip bottoms and butter
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• Okra - flour-battered and pan-fried or boiled, stewed, or steamed
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• Onion - Sliced Vidalia, whole green onion, and onion rings
• Vidalia onion - a sweet onion grown only in the state of Georgia, sold and popular throughout the South
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• Peas - often cooked with chunks of ham or onions
• Black-eyed peas - sometimes called "crowder peas"
• Purple hull
• Field peas
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• Potato Salad - usually made in the South with egg, mayonnaise, prepared mustard and pickle relish
• Poke sallet - cooked pokeweed
• Purloo - a traditional Low Country dish made with ham, bacon, peppers and okra
• Ramps - wild leeks popular in the mountains
• Red beans & rice - the rice is often some kind of dirty rice, a longstanding favorite in Louisiana
• Seven-layer salad
• Swamp cabbage (heart of palm)
• Summer Squash - often cooked down with onions or fried like okra
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• Tomatoes - sliced ripe, also eaten at breakfast
• Fried green tomatoes - see hillbilly fried green tomatoes
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• Sweet potatoes - often "candied" with butter and brown sugar
• Tomato aspic
• Wilted lettuce- with dressing, an Appalachian speciality
• Yams: see Sweet Potatoes
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See Also:
• List of Southern Meats, poultry and seafood
• List of Southern vegetables and salads
• List of Southern soups and stews
• List of Southern Beverages
• List of Southern Side Dishes
• List of Southern Pies
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