Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, jambalaya. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Jambalaya is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jambalaya using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:
- Prepare 8 oz shrimp
- Prepare 6 oz cajun sausage
- Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 medium onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 medium bell pepper, chopped
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup white rice
- Prepare 5 clove garlic
- Prepare 1 tbsp tomato paste
- Get 2 cup chicken broth
- Make ready 2 tbsp parsley
- Make ready 1/2 tsp old bay
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:
- Season shrimp w/ salt & pepper. Set aside.
- Heat oil in 12in skillet over medium heat until shimmering. Add sausage, onion, bell pepper, Old Bay, and 1/2 tsp salt and cook until onion is softened (about 5 min). Stir in rice, garlic, and tomato paste and cook until fragrant (about 30s).
- Stir in broth and bring to simmer, scraping up browned bits. Cover and cook over medium-low heat until liquid is absorbed (about 5 min).
- Scatter shrimp over rice and continue to cook, covered, until rice is tender and shrimp are cooked through (about 5 min). Off heat, let rice sit for 2 min. Stir in parsley, season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve.
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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