Recipe for Jambalaya? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

INGREDIENTS:
3 to 4 pounds chicken pieces
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 small red bell pepper, chopped, optional
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
1 1/2 cups long-grain rice, uncooked
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
1/4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
3 cups water
8 ounces shrimp, canned and drained small shrimp or coarsely chopped fresh or frozen cooked medium shrimp
PREPARATION:
Brown chicken pieces in hot vegetable oil over medium heat. Remove chicken from oil. Drain off all but 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil. Cook bell pepper, onion, garlic, and rice over low heat, stirring often, until tender.
Add seasonings, water, and chicken. Bring mixture to a boil; cover and cook over low heat for 25 minutes, until rice is tender. Remove cover and fluff rice. Stir in shrimp and cook for about 5 minutes longer, until heated through.
Jambalaya recipe serves

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SEAFOOD JAMBALAYA

2 1/2 Tbsp. chicken fat, pork lard, beef fat or butter
2/3 cup chopped tasso (preferred) or other smoked ham (preferably Cure 81)
1/2 cup chopped andouille smoked sausage (preferred) or any other
good pork sausage such as Polish sausage (kielbasa)
1 1/2 cups onions
1 cup celery, chopped
3/4 cup green bell peppers, chopped
2 bay leaves
2 Tbsp. plus 1 1/2 tsp. Cajun Magic Seafood Magic
1 1/2 tsp. minced garlic
4 cups peeled and chopped tomatoes (about 4 medium size)
3/4 cup tomato sauce
2 cups basic seafood stock (recipe below)
1/2 cup chopped green onions
2 cups uncooked rice (preferably converted)
1 lb. peeled crabmeat, crawfish or firm-fleshed fish fillets (cut into
bite-sized pieces), or any combination of these that equals one lb.
1 1/2 dozen oysters in their liquor (medium size oysters)
1 1/2 dozen peeled medium shrimp (about 1/2 lb.)

Melt the chicken fat in a two quart saucepan over medium heat.
Add the tasso and andouille and saute until crisp, about five to
eight minutes, stirring frequently. Add the onions, celery, and
Bell peppers; saute until tender but still firm, about five minutes,
stirring occasionally and scraping the pan bottom well. Add the
bay leaves, Cajun Magic Seafood Magic and garlic; cook about three
minutes, stirring constantly and scraping the pan bottom as needed.
Add the tomatoes and cook about seven minutes, stirring frequently.
Add the tomato sauce; cook about seven minutes more, stirring fairly
often. Stir in the stock and bring to a boil. Then stir in the
green onions and cook about two minutes, stirring once or twice.
Add the rice, crabmeat, crawfish, and/or fish and the oysters and
shrimp; stir well and remove from heat.

Transfer mixture to an ungreased 13 X 9 inch baking dish/pan.
Cover dish/pan snugly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees
F until rice is tender but still crunchy, about twenty or thirty
minutes. Remove from oven. If you still have liquid in the dish/pan
bottom, let sit for a few minutes, still covered, to allow rice to
absorb the liquid. Remove bay leaves and serve immediately. To
serve, mold rice in an eight ounce cup and place two cups on each
serving plate as main course or one cup as an appetizer.


This stuff is great but time consuming to make. Makes enough to
serve four to six .. easily! See the following substitution
suggestions if you're not up to the full-blown recipe effort. Do
not attempt to substitute for the Cajun Magic; its a lot better if
you use as directed. If you never heard of or tasted andouille ..
simply put, its the Cajun (actually andouille is of German and
French origins) version of smoked sausage; its the spicy equivalent
of Polish kielbasa. If you have a real good German or Polish
butcher shop in your area try to get kielbasa; if you can't find
anything other than supermarket "stuff", give KPAULS a call. I'll
warn you .. andouille goes for about $12-$15 per lb.!

Substitutes: 1. Use bottled clam juice instead of Seafood stock;
making the seafood stock will smell up your whole house for days
and its really not worth the effort. 2. Try making a chicken
jambalaya .. i.e. substitute chicken for fish (about 1 1/2 lb.).
Also, use two to three cups of chicken stock (canned is fine) in
place of the seafood stock. I prefer Chicken jambalaya .. tastes
just as good .. lots less work!


BASIC SEAFOOD STOCK

About 2 quarts cold water 1 1/2 to 2 lb. rinsed shrimp heads and/or shells,
crawfish heads and/or shells or crab shells (ten to twelve cups), rinsed
fish carcasses (heads and gills removed), or any combination of these
1 medium onion, unpeeled and quartered
1 rib celery
1 large clove garlic, unpeeled and quartered

Place all the ingredients in a large saucepan; bring to a boil over
high heat; reduce heat and simmer gently at least four hours,
preferably eight, replenishing water as needed to keep about one
quart of liquid in the pan. Strain, cool and refrigerate until
ready to use. Makes one quart.

Answer 2

I was looking at the second answer, and unless I read it wrong, I think there's a misprint. Don't saute the rice with the trinity, you add it after the veggies are cooked.

After you're done messing around with all of these fancy recipes, try the following premade kind and tell me how much better the other ones come out. All you basically have to do is brown and add your meats:

for a red jambalaya try , http://www.zatarain.com/products/product.php/40

Answer 3

Jambalaya Ingredients: 4 big yellow onions chopped fine about 8 cups water. 4 cups rice 1 bell pepper - chopped 2-3 banana peppers - chopped 3-5 crushed garlic cloves 2 bundles green onions. - chopped 2 lbs hot sausage - chopped 1 whole chicken cut up or pork. salt, pepper, red pepper, onion powder, whatever.(some people just use tonys but its a little too much salt for me) then just add as necessary for the the guests..

Answer 4

If that second posting didn't float it for ya, try:

Answer 5

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