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Acquacotta soup
Acquacotta, an Italian bread soup

Peasant foods are dishes eaten by peasants, made from accessible and inexpensive ingredients.

In many historical periods, peasant foods have been stigmatized.

They may use ingredients, such as offal and less-tender cuts of meat, which are not as marketable as a cash crop. One-dish meals are common.

Common types

Meat-and-grain sausages or mushes

Ground meat or meat scraps mixed with grain in approximately equal proportions, then often formed into a loaf, sliced, and fried

Pasta

Sauces

Fried cauliflower with agliata
Fried cauliflower with agliata sauce

Soups and stews

List of Peasant foods

Hominy (maize)
Bowl of hominy, a form of treated corn
Pot-au-feu2
Pot-au-feu, the basic French stew, a dish popular with both the poor and the rich alike
  • Baked beans, the simple stewed bean dish
  • Barbacoa, a form of slow cooking, often of an animal head, a predecessor to barbecue
  • Bulgur wheat, with vegetables or meat
  • Broken rice, which is often cheaper than whole grains and cooks more quickly.
  • Bubble and squeak, a simple British dish, cooked and fried with potatoes and cabbage mixed together.
  • Ragi balls made from Ragi flour which is boiled with water and balls are formed and eaten with vegetable gravy.
  • Greens, such as dandelion and collard.
  • Head cheese, made from boiling down the cleaned-out head of an animal to make broth, still made
  • Hominy, a form of corn specially prepared to be more nutritious
  • Horsebread, a low-cost European bread that was a recourse of the poor
  • Katemeshi, a Japanese peasant food consisting of rice, barley, millet and chopped daikon radish
  • Lampredotto, Florentine dish or sandwich made from a cow's fourth stomach
  • Polenta, a porridge made with the corn left to Italian farmers so that land holders could sell all the wheat crops, still a popular food
  • Pumpernickel, a traditional dark rye bread of Germany, made with a long, slow (16–24 hours) steam-baking process, and a sour culture
  • Ratatouille, the stewed vegetable dish
  • Red beans and rice, the Louisiana Creole dish made with red beans, vegetables, spices, and leftover pork bones slowly cooked together, and served over rice, common on Mondays when working women were hand-washing clothes
  • Salami, a long-lasting sausage, used to supplement a meat-deficient diet
  • Soul food, developed by African-American slaves and servants, primarily using ingredients undesired and given away by their employers or slaveholders.
  • Succotash, a blend of corn and beans
  • Taco, foods placed on native tortillas in the Americas
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