Sausage and Chicken Jambalaya Stirfry

Submitted by Karen Elizabeth

"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: 30mins
• Ingredients: 15
• 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 1/2 ounce) 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 :).

Reviews

[Bayhill]

Delicious! We loved this easy jambalaya! I used a 12 oz. package of spicy Cajun andouille sausage and cooked my rice with the vegetables using 1-1/2 cup chicken broth. The rice was done in about 20 mins. I thought that it needed more liquid as the rice was cooking so I added an 8 oz. can of tomato sauce. Also, I used berbere seasoning, which is a spicy red pepper blend, instead of the cayenne powder. Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe. It is a keeper! Made for ZWT9 Zingo for The Apron String Travelers.

 

[barbqjoe]

Turned out delicious. I added mushrooms and used a habenero shake that I make myself instead of red peppers. Was a little hot but I loved it. Recipe was easy to make.

 

[AlaskaPam]

This is really yummy! I cooked the rice in the pan with the rest of the inngredients like suggested. I used 1 1/2 cups of chicken broth and included the tomato liquid and it came out just great! I think it flavors the rice even better that way! I also added a stalk of celery chopped up with the onions and peppers...it just seemed to belong. I had a light hand with the red pepper, just being cautious, but found I preferred a bit more heat, so I added some tabasco when I was eating it. I will definately make this again! It is easy and fast enough to be a great weeknight dinner! Thanks for posting! Made for ZWT9

 

[GreeksWife]

I was looking for an easy Jambalaya recipe because we had never tried it before. It has everything we like in it and nothing we don't. It was so easy and soooo good.