Recipe: Perfect Jambalaya

Jambalaya. Season the sausage and chicken pieces with Cajun seasoning. Remove with slotted spoon, and set aside. 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.

It's rice free, with extra veggies to make up the volume. Just as delicious and flavorful as traditional jambalaya, without the insulin spike! 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. You can cook Jambalaya using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Jambalaya

1. It's 3-4 of skinkess chicken breats cubed.
2. Prepare 1/2 lbs of chorizo (Spanish susage) chooped.
3. You need 1 of green pepper.
4. You need 1 of onion.
5. It's 5 of garlic cloves.
6. Prepare 2 lbs of shrimp peeled.
7. Prepare of Kielbasa sausage chopped.
8. Prepare 2 cups of rice.
9. Prepare Can of tamato sauce.
10. It's 5 tbsp of cooking oil.
11. It's 8 cup of chicken broth.
12. Prepare 5 of scallions chopped.
13. You need 4 tbsp of Tabasco sauce.
14. Prepare 2 tsp of paprika.
15. It's 3 tsp of creole seasoning.
16. You need 2 tsp of black pepper.
17. Prepare of Salt for taste.

Remove sausage with a slotted spoon. 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. Jambalaya Ingredients: Alright, let's talk ingredients.

Jambalaya step by step

1. Turn stove on to medium heat. In a large pot ad cooking oil and sautee onions green peppers and garlic.
2. Add your chicken and stir. Once chicken begin to cook add your seasonings..
3. Add creole seasoning, paprika, black pepper, Tabasco sauce and stir.
4. Add the rice. Stir to blend ingredients together..
5. Add chicken broth and stir.bring to boil and once boiling stir and reduce heat. Allow to cook until half liquid is reduce..
6. Add the shrimp, chorizo, kielbasa, chopped tomatoes, scallions and stir to blend ingredients..
7. Reduce heat, add salt stir and let simmer for 5-10 minutes..
8. Note - if you really want to spice up the jambalaya add one chopped jamaican pepper to give it a kick at the beginning when adding the rice........WOW😅😅😅😅😅.
9. Enjoy.

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. Our recipe was inspired by other. There are two general kinds of jambalaya: Creole and Cajun.