Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Add Meat, Seafood, Or Veggies To Zatarain's® Original Jambalaya Mix for A One-Pot Dish. Season the sausage and chicken pieces with Cajun seasoning. According to the dictionary, jambalaya is "rice cooked usually with ham, sausage, chicken, shrimp, or oysters and seasoned with herbs." In talking with lovers of authentic Creole food, this statement is as close as you will get to having people agree on what jambalaya really is.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:
- Make ready 2 Bay leaves
- Get 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1 1/2 tsp cayenne
- Get 1 1/2 tsp crushed oregano
- Take 1 1/4 tsp white pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp thyme
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 3 Tbsp fat or oil
- Prepare 3 oz ham, chopped
- Get 2 andouille sausages, cubed
- Make ready 2 onions, diced
- Get 4 stalks celery, diced
- Get 1 green bell pepper, diced
- Make ready 1 chicken boob, diced
- Take 4 tomatoes, diced
- Take 2 cups seafood stock
- Take 2/3 cup tomato sauce
- Make ready 2 cups converted rice (like uncle bens)
- Take 1/2 lb raw shrimp, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
- Make ready 10 oz oysters in their liquor, roughly chopped
- Take 3 green onions, sliced
To Freeze: Prepare recipe as directed. Using an ice cream scoop, place a scoop of rice on to the center of the bowlfuls of jambalaya. Sprinkle dishes with salt, pepper, chopped scallions, and thyme. From her home in Topeka, Kansas, subscriber Betty May shares her recipe for quick-to-cook jambalaya. "Unlike some versions, this one doesn't have to simmer for hours," she notes. "Folks who like their food a bit spicy are sure to enjoy it.
Steps to make Jambalaya:
- Prepare all ingredients before hand. This dish comes together in parts, and having everything mise en place helps. Plus you can sit back and drink some wine while it cooks. Add the spices and garlic together. Add the ham and sausage together. Add onion, celery, and bell peppers together. Add the shrimp and oysters together.
- Heat the oven to 350F
- Melt the fat over high heat in a 6qt dutch oven. I like to use duck fat or bacon grease. But if you want to use oil you can.
- Add the ham and sausage and sauté until beginning to brown ~5 min
- Add the onion, celery, and bell pepper. Cook until they begin to stick to the bottom of the pot. ~5 min
- Add the chicken and cook for another 3 min.
- Add the spices and garlic and cook another 3 min.
- Add the tomatoes and cook another 8 min or until the tomatoes begin to give up their liquid.
- Add the tomatoes sauce and stock and bring to a simmer
- Add the rice, shrimp, oysters, and green onions.
- Mix thoroughly and cover. Bake for 30 min.
- Turn oven off, take jambalaya out and stir it. Place cover back on and let sit in hot oven another 30 min. Serve.
Jalapeno and cayenne pepper add some zip to the shrimp and chicken." Jambalaya Ingredients: Alright, let's talk ingredients. To make classic jambalaya, you will need: The Cajun/Creole "holy trinity": Celery, onion and green bell pepper (although for some extra color, I've also used red and yellow bell peppers). Feel free to add more or less of either, depending on your heat preferences. Jambalaya is a wildly popular dish that originated in New Orleans and was inspired by flavors around the world—Spanish, West African, and French to name a few. This quintessential dish from New Orleans is a spicy one-pot rice dish featuring chicken, andouille sausage, shrimp, and a whole host of Southern flavors.
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