Easy Smoked Sausage Creole

Submitted by Paintpuddles

"Another one of my quick easy week night meals, with little fuss and full of flavor."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1⁄3 cup celery, chopped
• 1⁄4 cup onion, chopped
• 1 medium green bell pepper, diced
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1 (10 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
• 1⁄4 cup green olives, sliced
• 1 (5 5/8 ounce) package Spanish rice mix
• 1 (1 lb) package smoked sausage, sliced and halved

directions

1. Sauté onion, bell pepper and celery in oil.
2. Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan.
3. Bring to a boil while stirring well. Cover and simmer until liquid is absorbed, about 10-12 minutes.
4. Remove from stove and let stand 5 minutes before serving.
5. Variation: For a spicier Creole taste use a dash of tabasco Sauce.

Reviews

[Karla T.]

Well using what I had on hand, left over taco meat & spanish rice & okra fesh from the garden. Also a dash of worstershire & a spinkle of sugar. It was delish!

 

[enestvmel]

This was great! I didn't have the Spanish rice mix, so I feel it's hard to rate it with stars. This recipe was a great base for what I made. I basically made the recipe as is, with my own homemade Spanish rice (about 2 c. rice, 3/4 c. salsa, about 3 c. water, and the liquid from the tomatoes). I just added the water from this recipe into my amount of water needed (It's a 2 to 1 ratio for water to rice, and I add a little bit extra water when I substitute salsa to make spanish rice). I cooked my rice for 17 minutes like I normally do, but it wasn't very saucy like in the picture. Next time I would cook less next time and take off the heat like in the recipe. I didn't have green olives. I also thought I'd add a little bit of cooked chicken I had left. I did add about a half a tsp of salt, because there was no salt added to my tomatoes, and I used my own Spanish rice. The amount I made was definitely for more than 4 people, it was at least 6, maybe even 8. I made corn muffins to go with this, and it paired great! Thanks for the recipe, Breezermom!

 

[Ginny Sue]

Nice quick weeknight meal with lots of flavor. The package of Spanich rice mix that I used was 5 ounces and didn't look like it would be enough rice to go with the meat, so I added another 1/3 cup of plain white rice and a little more water. I did need to simmer this longer to get the rice tender; probably another 10-15 minutes.

 

[breezermom]

This was easy to make, but I had to cook my rice longer to keep it from being crispy. Maybe it was just the brand I chose. I used Mahatma Spanish Rice Mix. The package did say to cook it for 20 minutes, so I think that was it. I added a chopped clove of garlic and the tobasco. It was a little salty, so I might add some regular rice while it is cooking to soak up some of the salt in the mix and the sausage. Great recipe for a quick, week night meal. Made for PAC Spring 2009.