Sausage and Chicken Jambalaya Stirfry

From ' No Time To Cook : One-Dish Meals ", a quick and easy supper dish using pantry ingredients. I chose not to cook the rice separately, but with the other ingrdients, more like a risotto. If you do this, you will need more liquid, I did use a lot more than 1/2 a cup of broth, probably more like 1 and a 1/2, plus the liquid from the canned tomatoes. I also added about 1 tblsp tomato paste that I had in the fridge, plus a dash of brown sugar. And, no salt, more pepper! All according to personal taste! I also added Tabasco to mine, although not my husbands, I prefer more heat. Posting recipe as originally published, but feel free to play :)

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1  cup  uncooked rice (I used long-grain white)
• 1  teaspoon  vegetable oil
• 1⁄4 lb  chicken tenders, cubed
• 1⁄2 lb  smoked Polish sausage, sliced (I used chorizo)
• 1  large onion, chopped
• 1  green bell pepper
• 1  red bell pepper (my own addition -- )
• 1  teaspoon  minced garlic
• 1 (14 1/2ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1⁄2 cup chicken broth
• 1  tablespoon dried parsley flakes
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1⁄8-1⁄4 teaspoon  ground red pepper

Directions

1. Cook rice according to package directions.
2. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
3. Stirfry chicken 2 minutes, add sausage; stirfry chicken and sausage until brown. Remove from pan to separate bowl.
4. Add onion and bell peppers to skillet, reduce heat to low. Cover and cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring once or twice. Add garlic, cook and stir, uncovered, 1 minute.
5. Add tomatoes, sausage, chicken, broth, parsley, thyme, salt, black pepper and red pepper, to pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes, or until most liquid has been absorbed.
6. Stir in rice and heat through.
7. NOTE : as stated in the intro, I made this more like a risotto, cooking the rice in the pan with the vegetables, and using more liquid. Probably took a bit longer, but turned out well :).