Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Jambalaya is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Jambalaya is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Opinions differ on how to cook a proper jambalaya, just as they differ on how to cook a gumbo or whether you. Jen's Jambalaya "This is a great recipe! We make it all year round and kids never get tired of it." - Marlo Russell.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:
- Make ready 2 Bay leaves
- Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp cayenne
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp crushed oregano
- Take 1 1/4 tsp white pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp black pepper
- Make ready 1 tsp thyme
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 3 Tbsp fat or oil
- Get 3 oz ham, chopped
- Make ready 2 andouille sausages, cubed
- Take 2 onions, diced
- Prepare 4 stalks celery, diced
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper, diced
- Get 1 chicken boob, diced
- Take 4 tomatoes, diced
- Take 2 cups seafood stock
- Make ready 2/3 cup tomato sauce
- Make ready 2 cups converted rice (like uncle bens)
- Take 1/2 lb raw shrimp, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
- Get 10 oz oysters in their liquor, roughly chopped
- Prepare 3 green onions, sliced
Feel free to add more or less of either, depending on your heat preferences. 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), Spanish and Native American influence, consisting mainly of meat and vegetables mixed with rice. Traditionally, the meat always includes sausage of some sort, often a smoked meat such as andouille, along with pork or chicken and seafood. Stir in the celery, green peppers, onion, garlic, seasonings and pepper sauce.
Instructions 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.
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. Jambalaya is a hallmark of the Creole cuisine. It is a versatile dish that combines cooked rice with a variety of ingredients that can include tomatoes, onion, green peppers and almost any kind of meat, poultry or shellfish. The dish varies widely from cook to cook. Some think the name derives from the French word jambon, meaning ham, the main ingredient in many of the first jambalayas.
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