Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jambalaya is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Jambalaya is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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 begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:
- Take 3 Tbs olive oil, divided
- Make ready 1 large boneless skinless chicken breast, butterflied in half
- Get 1 1/8 cups white rice (Uncle Ben's)
- Make ready 2 stalks celery, chopped
- Make ready 1 white onion, chopped
- Make ready 2 bell peppers, chopped
- Take 1 jalapeno, chopped
- Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Get 3 cups chicken broth
- Get 1 (14 oz) can crushed tomatoes
- Prepare 1 1/2 Tbs Cajun seasoning
- Get 1/2 tsp thyme
- Take 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- Get 1 bay leaf
- Get 3/4 cup okra, sliced
- Take 1 pkg polish sausage, sliced
- Prepare 1 lb shrimp thawed and peeled
- Take Salt and pepper for taste
- Get Toppings
- Make ready Parsley
- Take Green onion
- Make ready Hot sauce
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. 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.
Steps to make Jambalaya:
- Heat up 2 Tbs of olive oil and cook chicken for two minutes on each side, not fully cooked. Cut chicken into cubes and set aside.
- In the same pan, sauté shrimp, season with salt and pepper. Remove shrimp to cool.
- In the same pan, add the final Tbs of olive oil, rice and cook until rice starts to toast. Add onion, celery, bell peppers, jalapeno, and garlic. Saute for 3 minutes.
- Add chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, cajun seasoning, thyme, cayenne pepper, bay leaf, okra, sausage, and chicken back in. Bring to a boil, turn the heat all the way to low, cover and let simmer for 25 minutes.
- Top with shrimp once the rice is cooked. Add toppings to individual bowls and enjoy!
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. 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. Stir in the celery, green peppers, onion, garlic, seasonings and pepper sauce.
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