Community Kettle · Slow-Cooked Stew
Booyah
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Booyah is traditionally cooked outdoors in enormous cast-iron kettles for up to two days straight, feeding entire towns at fundraiser events rather than being sold as an everyday snack.
Chicken, beef, and a mix of vegetables are simmered for hours in huge outdoor kettles until they break down into a thick, hearty stew, then ladled into cups for church and firehouse fundraisers. It's most associated with Green Bay's Belgian-American community.
Why it's made this way: Belgian immigrants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin's Door County peninsula brought the communal kettle-cooking tradition that gives the region its own stew.
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