Jambalaya
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 red pepper, sliced into thin strips
- 1 jalapeno pepper, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 -3 hot Italian sausage, casings removed
- 4 slices bacon, chopped
- 8 chicken thighs, de-boned and chopped
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce (I used Tobasco Red)
- 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper (optional)
- 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes (Del Monte Cajun-style)
- 1 (12 ounce) bottle beer (Heineken)
- 3⁄4 lb shrimp, deveined
- 3⁄4 lb bay scallop
- 1 (10 ounce) bag frozen okra
- 2 cups raw rice
directions
- In a 2 qt pot, sauté the onion, red pepper, jalapeño pepper and garlic over med-hi heat in the olive oil until everything is soft.
- Add the sausage, bacon, chicken, hot sauce and cayenne pepper and sauté until almost cooked.
- Add the stewed tomatoes and the beer and bring to a boil.
- Turn the heat down to med and let the pot simmer 10-15 minutes to let the flavors blend.
- Add the shrimp, scallops, okra and rice and simmer for another 10-15 minutes or until the seafood is cooked. Stir continuously for 10 minutes (keeps the rice from burning on the bottom of the pot.) then cover the pot and turn the heat down to Med-low for another 10 minutes or until the rice is done.
- Serve hot and enjoy!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Daniele1969
Rockville, MD
I live in Rockville, MD which is 20 minutes north of Washington DC. I love to cook, read, go bike riding with my Hubby, Salsa dancing with Hubby, cook out with all our friends and travel. My favorite cookbook is one my mother wrote, From My Grandmother's Kitchen by Viviane Miner. It is a Safardic cookbook and has every single recipe my mother has ever made. I used to have a BIG black cat named Danzig, but he passed away the summer of 2005. We now have 2 cats, a calico who is mostly white (AH! White hair everywhere)and a black and white "Tuxedo" cat (He looks like he's wearing black tuxedo tails) They're names...Lilo and Stitch! And as pet-peeves go - why can't people use the ear piece for their cell phones when driving their cars?!
I was never really into cooking when I was younger. Even when I was just out of college, I was living on Can openers and Mircowaves. I don't even know when the change happened. All of a sudden, I wanted to cook. I wanted to bring joy to everyone'e mouths. I wanted to be.....a chef. Well, I've come a long way from the can opener; I put it down and just never looked back. Now the microwave is just a big defroster and I use the can opener occasionally (hey, friends are friends! Just because I grew doesn't mean I had to completely dump my old friends. Right?).