Southern Jambalaya Recipes

Steps:

• Cook the onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in two tbsp of the oil in a Dutch oven, about 3-4 minutes.
• Add shrimp and cook until shrimp are pink, about 5 minutes.
• Remove shrimp mixture and reserve.
• Add last tbsp oil to the pan along with the rice and cook over med-high heat about ten minutes, until the rice is a light brown, stirring frequently to prevent scorching.
• Stir in the broth, tomatoes, salt, pepper, thyme, Tabasco, and the bay leaf.
• Heat mixture to a boil then cover, reduce hear and simmer, about 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender.
• Stir in the reserved shrimp and also the ham.
• Cover and cook until heated through.
• Remove bay leaf, and serve.

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of peanut oil in a large heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Season the sausage and chicken pieces with Cajun seasoning. Saute sausage until browned. Remove with slotted spoon, and set aside. Add 1 tablespoon peanut oil, and saute chicken pieces until lightly browned on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside.
• In the same pot, saute onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic until tender. Stir in crushed tomatoes, and season with red pepper, black pepper, salt, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce and file powder. Stir in chicken and sausage. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the rice and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed.

Steps:

• In large pot, sauté sausage in oil until lightly browned.
• Remove sausage from pot and sauté chicken until cooked.
• Remove chicken and sauté bell peppers through garlic until tender.
• Add tomatoes (with liquid) through hot pepper sauce and cook 5 minutes.
• Stir in rice.
• Add chicken stock through worcestershire sauce; bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and add sausage,chicken and shrimp.
• Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, 30-45 min until rice is done and shrimp is cooked. (If additional liquid is needed before rice is done, add a 50/50 mixture of water and Southern Comfort).