Jambalaya (on the bayou)

[Iron City]

Good bye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh!


I got the origional somewhere, but have tweaked it a bit to my likin'.



Ingredients:

2# smoked sausage, sliced in coin pieces

1 cup diced boneless chicken (thighs or breasts...turkey works too.)

1# (any count) shrimp, peeled and deveined

2 (8oz) cans tomato sauce

1 (15oz) can diced tomatoes (Rotelle works too!!!)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1 cup diced onions

1 cup diced celery

1/2 cup diced bell peppers (red, green or whatever)

1 tbsp minced garlic

3 cups chicken stock

3 cups long grain rice

salt and lots of cracked black pepper (or to taste)

Hot sauce to taste

1/2 cup sliced green onions

1/4 cup chopped parsley



The key is a cast iron dutch oven.



- Heat oil over medium-high heat.

- Saute onions, celery, bell peppers and garlic until wilted.

- Mix in smoked sausage and cook 5 minutes.

- Add chicken and cook, stirring, about five minutes.

- Stir in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and chicken stock.

- Bring back to a rolling boil, and stir in rice.

- Return to a boil, then reduce heat to low.

- Season with salt, pepper and hot sauce.

- Cover pot and cook 20 minutes. Do not stir or remove lid!!!

- Remove cover, add green onions, parsley and shrimp.

- Stir once to ensure that rice is not sticking and scorching and to blend in shrimp.

- Cover and cook 10–15 minutes longer.

- Remove from heat and allow to steam 15 minutes before serving.



I'm telling you the cast iron is the secret. Follow the directions and don't peek and it is just about bullet proof.

[mdauben]

Sounds like a winner. I may have to give you recipe a try.

[Mongo]

Ditto ^

Will have to hit the grocery store and make up a batch... been quite some time since I've made this kind of dish.

[hank_rearden]

cooking the rice in the pot with the stock is basically paella.

[Iron City]

I bet jamabalaya is some bastardized form of paella that goes back many years. Seems every culture have overlapping dishes that they put their spin on with variations in the ingredients and spice mixtures.

Like a wonton is kind of like a ravioli or a pirogi.


Either way... they are all good eatin'.

[willseeyalater]

Jambalaya and paella are what happens when someone would have made a soup but instead boosted the rice and meat proportion and came out with a dish that could be served on a plate. Soup is the poor persons version of these dishes. That's why these meals are generally served for big occasions and holidays in big batches. Recipes traditionally were in cauldron proportions and could be tapered down by simple division. Wherever people gather up for a celebration there is some way to feed them more substantial than soup. In Brazil they eat faejwuada(sp?) which is black beans, pig ears/noses and rice on the side. It is tasty stuff along the lines of dishes like jambalaya.

[hung-solo]

Jambalaya and paella are what happens when someone would have made a soup but instead boosted the rice and meat proportion and came out with a dish that could be served on a plate. Soup is the poor persons version of these dishes. That's why these meals are generally served for big occasions and holidays in big batches. Recipes traditionally were in cauldron proportions and could be tapered down by simple division. Wherever people gather up for a celebration there is some way to feed them more substantial than soup. In Brazil they eat faejwuada(sp?) which is black beans, pig ears/noses and rice on the side. It is tasty stuff along the lines of dishes like jambalaya.

black beans and rice only please

[willseeyalater]

black beans and rice only please

Don't kid yourself, if you eat sausage you have eaten ears, noses and more. If you use some andouille' sausage in the black beans that works good and is probably easier to find here in the US.

[hung-solo]

Don't kid yourself, if you eat sausage you have eaten ears, noses and more. If you use some andouille' sausage in the black beans that works good and is probably easier to find here in the US.

true. i eat hot dogs too. scrapple is a big thing down here as well. i dont eat it but many do.


i will be trying this jambalaya sometime in the somewhat near future. printed the recipe

[hank_rearden]

the poor would take the scraps of meat and fowl from their rich masters and cook them with rice, vegies, maybe wild birds and rabbit. valencia folks can't understand why the rest of the world puts in seafood to their paella.

but turning to jambalaya, i have always thought one cooks the soup first and mix in cooked rice.

[hung-solo]

the poor would take the scraps of meat and fowl from their rich masters and cook them with rice, vegies, maybe wild birds and rabbit. valencia folks can't understand why the rest of the world puts in seafood to their paella.

but turning to jambalaya, i have always thought one cooks the soup first and mix in cooked rice.

southern version of "scrap meat soup" is called Brunswick Stew..mmm good