Cajun Rice Recipes

"This is a quick and easy recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks, "Friends of the Market".......a local farmers market cookbook from Mauldin, S.C. You can use rotisserie chicken instead of the canned if you prefer."

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Ingredients: sliced water chestnuts, zatarain's jambalaya mix...

"Even when cooking for meat-eaters (ummm, that would be mainly my husband,) I like to at least sneak in a healthier ingredient or two! After taking a cooking class in New Orleans, I came home and re-created this Cajun classic using brown rice instead of white. Not sure the whole grain goodness offsets the fat from the sausage:(:(---but His Meatship..."

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Ingredients: andouille sausages, green bell peppers...

"If you've never eaten authentic creole, you truly don't know what you're missing. I discovered this Louisiana favorite while residing there and it was love at first bite. This dish has a very unique taste that defies description. It is very easy to make, and you're doing yourself a serious disservice if you don't give it a try. You can use crawfish..."

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Ingredients: garlic, green peppers, oil...

"This a great dish I adapted from several recipes. The great thing is you can make this as spicy as you want. This goes great with a splash of hot sauce on top and some corn bread. Yummy!"

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Ingredients: tomatoes and green chilies, dark red kidney beans...

"This Jambalaya is so good you think someone slaved over a caltron with a boat paddle all day!! This is some seriously good Mix that can make a small pot for a few up to a large pot for a large party. Add some salad and garlic bread and your set!!"

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Ingredients: pepper, andouille sausages...

"This is the easiest best tasting gumbo that you would swear came from a real roux. It is a fast delicious staple in my house weekly and can be multiplied easily for larger parties or used with seafood. Just don't tell anyone your secret ... shhh."

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Ingredients: pepper, andouille sausages...

"Popcorn rice is big industry in Louisiana. Popcorn Rice, which when cooked, has the aroma of freshly popped popcorn. You can sub jasmine rice, which has a fragrant corn or nut-like aroma when cooked or plain white rice. Fine Cooking featured this recipe with the popcorn rice. Treat yourself!"

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Ingredients: fish stock, green peppers...

"This hearkens back to the old Acadian villages in the South, where Fridays were "wash days" for the women and no meat was eaten. This vegan, hearty stew of spicy lentils, brown rice and tons of veggies will have you wishing every day was "wash day"!"

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Ingredients: low sodium vegetable broth, cremini mushrooms...

"LOOSELY based upon some of Justin Wilson's Rice dishes."

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Ingredients: fresh parsley, hot sauce...

"I found a version of this recipe on recipelion.com, but have tweaked it a bit (especially in regards to the cooking day ingredients). Not only will this make a great gift, but it's an extremely fast way to cook jambalaya (and has, after one cooking, become my go to recipe). I think you could probably even use canned chicken and it would still be..."

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Ingredients: dried celery flakes, diced tomatoes...

"I wanted to make a Jambalaya but all I had was the 10 minute Boil-in-Bag Success Rice and I was worried about it getting mushy. Low and behold, I found a recipe on their website. Here it is! (This is the healthy version. I used 2 medium chicken breasts in place of the cubed chicken strips, kielbasa instead of smoked turkey sausage, brown rice instead..."

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Ingredients: no-salt-added tomato sauce, boil-in-the-bag rice...