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Jambalaya....
« on: October 29, 2008, 11:50:51 AM »
I am planning on making something similar tonight, with prawns and sausage, anyone have any good recipes?


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Re: Jambalaya....
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2008, 04:11:52 PM »
Here is the one that we made a while back and was a hit with everyone...and I am not even a huge fan of jambalaya!  Just use the prawns and sausage and you're good to go!

Ingredients

¼ cup Olive Oil
1 or 2 small onions
½ cup bell pepper
4 tsp fresh garlic
3 stalks or less of celery
½ tsp black pepper
½ ~ 1 tsp salt
1 tsp cayenne pepper
½ tsp basil
½ tsp thyme
½ tsp parsley
4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
4 cups chicken broth
2lb chicken breast (cubed/chopped)
1lb sausage (chopped up and can be browned in a pan b4 use)
¼ cup of white wine (match the oil)
2 ~ 3 cups of rice (white or brown)

Cooking Breakdown

Finely chop all the veggies
Heat up olive oil in stock pot
Saute' chopped veggies in oil until tender
Add chicken in pot and cook until no pink shows
While cooking chicken add in all the spices and Worcestershire sauce
Once completed toss in the pre-cooked sausage. (If you choose not to pre-brown the sausage add it in with the chicken.
Throughout the whole process be sure to stir often.
Once done add in the chicken broth and white wine (if u wish…I didn't use any)
Then add your rice
Bring pot to a boil then cover and reduce temp.
Let cook for about an hour.

Someone may have something easier but if not, let me know how it turns out if you do try it!!  :)
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Re: Jambalaya....
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2008, 10:19:48 AM »
I didn't see your post, so I just winged it....
But this is what I did...

grilled sausages first, meanwhile....
sauteed celery, onion, 4 cloves garlic, and a yellow bell pepper
added 2 cans chopped tomatoes and juice
added some basmati rice I cooked separately with a chicken stock cube
added loads of paprika, chili powder, and a bit of crushed red pepper (didn't have cayenne)
then added the prawns (pre-cooked) and sausage cut into pieces

It turned out pretty good, methinks.... similar to how my great-grandma made it, from what I can remember...  8)


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Re: Jambalaya....
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2008, 06:46:12 PM »
Jambalaya is just a mixture of ingredients thrown together :)  Glad yours turned out well!!  Where was your grandma from? 
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Re: Jambalaya....
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2008, 11:30:55 AM »
my great-grandmother lived in Ringold, Louisiana, which is near Shreveport, but I'm not sure which part she was originally from, maybe Monroe, as some of her relatives are there.  She used to do the whole Cajun dinner for Thanksgiving, we always had fried turkey, red beans and rice, gumbo, jambalaya, and the biggest, fluffiest biscuits known to man! 
Yeah, it was good and since it made so much with the rice in, we have been eating it for 3 days... starting to get a bit sick of it by now!   ;)


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