Simple Way to Prepare Jambalaya in 13 Minutes at Home

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Jambalaya is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Jambalaya is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have jambalaya using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:

1. Make ready 1 lb Andouille sausage, sliced in rounds.
2. Make ready 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut in to bite size pieces.
3. Take 1 green bell pepper, diced chunky.
4. Get 1 yellow or sweet onion, diced.
5. Make ready 4 ribs of celery, chopped.
6. Take 5 clove garlic, minced.
7. Make ready 2 cup uncooked white rice.
8. Take 3 cup chicken stock.
9. Prepare 1 dash worcestershire sauce.
10. Take 1 dash hot sauce.
11. Get 1 Cajun seasoning to taste.
12. Prepare 1 can fire roasted crushed tomatoes.
13. Make ready 1 olive oil

Traditionally, the meat always includes sausage of some sort, often a smoked meat such as andouille, along with pork or chicken and seafood (less common. Jambalaya is such a culinary staple and storied dish in New Orleans the word is used to describe so much more than food. "What a crazy jambalaya of music at this festival." The dish has represented New Orleans since Colonial Spanish settlers tried reconstructing their native paella from locally-sourced ingredients. 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).

Instructions to make Jambalaya:

1. Season chicken and sausage with Cajun seasoning.
2. Over medium heat in a heavy bottomed stock pot, heat oil and about half of the garlic.
3. When garlic is aromatic, cook sausage until just brown and some of the fat has been rendered. Remove sausage with slotted spoon.
4. Brown chicken thighs until browned. Remove with a slotted spoon.
5. Add onion, bell pepper, remaining garlic, tomatoes (undrained), and celery. Cook until tender, adding Cajun seasoning to the pot as liquid starts to cook out.
6. Add all other ingredients, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer until the rice has absorbed all the liquid. Season as necessary to your taste.

Feel free to add more or less of either, depending on your heat preferences. 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. Stir in the celery, green peppers, onion, garlic, seasonings and pepper sauce. 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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