Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jambalaya is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Jambalaya is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Cook Up The Classic New Orleans On-Pot Dish W/ Zatarain's® Jambalaya Mix. 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 particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:
- Take 2 Bay leaves
- Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp cayenne
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp crushed oregano
- Make ready 1 1/4 tsp white pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp black pepper
- Get 1 tsp thyme
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 3 Tbsp fat or oil
- Get 3 oz ham, chopped
- Get 2 andouille sausages, cubed
- Make ready 2 onions, diced
- Take 4 stalks celery, diced
- Get 1 green bell pepper, diced
- Take 1 chicken boob, diced
- Get 4 tomatoes, diced
- Prepare 2 cups seafood stock
- Get 2/3 cup tomato sauce
- Prepare 2 cups converted rice (like uncle bens)
- Make ready 1/2 lb raw shrimp, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
- Make ready 10 oz oysters in their liquor, roughly chopped
- Prepare 3 green onions, sliced
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 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 (/ ˌ dʒ æ m b ə ˈ l aɪ. ə / JAM-bə-LY-ə, / ˌ dʒ ʌ m-/ JUM-) is a popular dish of West African, French (especially Provençal cuisine), and Spanish influence, consisting mainly of meat and vegetables mixed with rice.
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.
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 a quintessential one pot recipe with chicken, sausage, shrimp and rice! Coming to you from New Orleans! An easy Jambalaya recipe is pure comfort food filled to the brim with flavour. The aromatic trinity of Cajun/Creole cooking: onion, celery, and bell peppers (capsicums), sautéed in andouille drippings with garlic, herbs and.
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