Jambalaya (Red)
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 1 lb boneless chicken, cubed
- 1 lb smoked sausage
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, chopped
- 4 celery ribs, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 (8 ounce) cans tomatoes, paste
- 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes
- 3 (14 1/2 ounce) cans chicken stock (broth)
- 2 tablespoons toney chachere's cajun seasoning
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- salt
- 4 cups white rice, uncooked
directions
- In a frying pan, sauté chicken in 2 tablespoons butter, sprinkling with Cajun seasoning , until thoroughly cooked (about 5~7 minutes). Set aside when done.
- Brown the sliced smoked sausage and pour off fat.
- In a large cooking pot, sauté the onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic in cooking oil until onions get a bit transparent.
- Once the onions are transparent, add the 3 cans tomato paste and let it brown a little (pince’), but don’t let it burn. The tomato paste will get a deep mahogany color.
- Pour 2 cups of the chicken broth into the pot to deglaze the tomato paste and stir until smooth.
- Add Bay leaves
- Add Cajun seasoning, can of diced tomatoes. Cover and cook over Medium-low heat for about 10 minutes.
- Add Meats and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Check your seasonings to see if it's salty or spicy enough for you as it will be too late after you add the rice.
- Add the rest of the chicken broth and stir in the rice, combining thoroughly. Cover and cook for about 20-25 minutes or until very thick.
- Bon Apetite!
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Hello Y'all! I live in Kentucky near the "gateway to the mountains" where my husband was born and raised. I myself am from Mississippi. Growing up we had great times going to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Gulfport, Biloxi, and various places in the Southern part of Alabama. I have family in all these places. So, it's no wonder that I am a sucker for cajun/creole dishes.
Here in KY, not many of my husbands relitives and friends have ever had cajun/creole fare. But now they make sure that I let them know when I'm gonna cook up some good ol'gumbo, jambalaya, dirty rice, or such. But they still won't eat a crawfish. My husband said that he used to play with those things (he calls them crawdads) when he was a boy and never concidered ever eating them. He still kinda gets grossed out when I "pinch de tail and suck de head" (the proper way to eat a crawfish at a crawfish boil). Gosh I miss those. You won't find anybody throwin a crawfish boil here in this part of Ken-tuck.
Anyway, I really miss my South...but I love my Kentucky, too. I am learning how to cook the foods my hubby grew up on from his mother, but bless his heart, he'll eat anything I throw together. He's a brave man.
Anyway, I'm a mother of 2, a 13 year old and a 3 year old. We have 2 dogs (Mastiffs) named Bozak (Beaux Zachary Bleu Tear) and Mercedez (Pain's Little Maugui)who both refuse to give us puppies. We also have 2 cats, Thunder and her son Spooky. And 2 rabbits named Peanut and Cinnamon.
Welp, that's about it.
Bye Y'all!