Jambalaya With Fresh Fruit Food

JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of peanut oil in a large heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Season the sausage and chicken pieces with Cajun seasoning. Saute sausage until browned. Remove with slotted spoon, and set aside. Add 1 tablespoon peanut oil, and saute chicken pieces until lightly browned on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside.
• In the same pot, saute onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic until tender. Stir in crushed tomatoes, and season with red pepper, black pepper, salt, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce and file powder. Stir in chicken and sausage. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the rice and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed.

QUICK JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Cut sausage into 1/2-inch slices. Melt butter in a 5 to 6-quart pan over medium-high heat. Add sausage, onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until vegetables are soft and sausage is lightly browned.
• Stir in tomatoes, pepper sauce, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes and salt to taste. Bring to a boil; add shrimp. Cook 3 minutes or until shrimp are cooked and opaque in center.
• Gently stir in hot rice and cook 3-5 minutes or until heated through.

JAMBALAYA WITH FRESH FRUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 2 quart casserole dish with lid.
• Place the flour in a shallow dish. Dip the sausages into the flour to coat evenly.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the sausages, turning to brown all sides, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
• Using the same skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Stir in the onion, green pepper, garlic, and bay leaves; stir and cook until tender, about 2 minutes. Combine the rice with the pepper mixture; stir and cook until the rice turns opaque, about 3 minutes. Stir in the thyme, salt, chili powder, white and black peppers, red pepper flakes, wine, tomatoes, and chicken broth. Add the sausages; increase heat to high and bring the mixture to a boil. Transfer the rice mixture to the large pot and cover.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove pot from the oven. Stir in the shrimp, pineapple, mango, and apple; blending thoroughly with the rice mixture. Cover and bake until shrimp is cooked, 10 to 15 minutes.

JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Melt shortening in a large/huge saucepan over medium heat.
• Cook chicken pieces until brown on all sides and cooked about half way through, around 20 minutes or so.
• Remove and add onion, green pepper, celery and garlic.
• Cook slowly stirring now and again until onions are tender.
• Add sausage and cook 10 min more.
• Return chicken and add all remaining ingredients EXCEPT rice and stir together well.
• Cover and simmer for 30 min stirring now and again.
• Remove cover and continue to cook until broth cooks down a bit-you don't want it too thick as the rice will soak up the juice.
• Serve up the rice in bowls and ladle the Jambalaya on top, and offer more cayenne or Tabasco at the table.
• ***I know that cooking the rice on the side and not in the dish will cause some to have a heart attack, but I've found the flavor much better this way, IMHO.
• Diana.

JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Put the vegetables in a 4-quart saucepan and cook them over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Add Andouille, ham, chicken, and spices.
• Add enough chicken stock to cover and simmer until the mixture becomes thick, about 15 minutes.
• Add shrimp and rice, mix in parsley, cook two more minutes and serve.

SEAFOOD JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven, saute the mushrooms, onions, pepper, celery and garlic in oil. Add the sausage, shrimp, crawfish, broth, tomatoes, seasonings and rice., Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 45 minutes or until heated through, stirring after 20 minutes.

JAMBALAYA WITH FRESH FRUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 2 quart casserole dish with lid.
• Place the flour in a shallow dish. Dip the sausages into the flour to coat evenly.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the sausages, turning to brown all sides, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
• Using the same skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium heat. Stir in the onion, green pepper, garlic, and bay leaves; stir and cook until tender, about 2 minutes. Combine the rice with the pepper mixture; stir and cook until the rice turns opaque, about 3 minutes. Stir in the thyme, salt, chili powder, white and black peppers, red pepper flakes, wine, tomatoes, and chicken broth. Add the sausages; increase heat to high and bring the mixture to a boil. Transfer the rice mixture to the large pot and cover.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Remove pot from the oven. Stir in the shrimp, pineapple, mango, and apple; blending thoroughly with the rice mixture. Cover and bake until shrimp is cooked, 10 to 15 minutes.

EASY JAMBALAYA RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Add diced chicken breasts and Andouille sausage. Add salt and pepper to taste, and cook thoroughly.
• Add crushed garlic and a diced jalapeño pepper.
• NOTE: Leave the jalapeño seeds in for extra spice
• Stir in diced onion, peppers, celery until they're soft.
• Add chicken stock, tomatoes, rice, cajun seasoning, bay leaf, dried thyme, cayenne pepper and stir.
• Cover and simmer stew for 30 minutes.
• NOTE: Stir occasionally to make sure the rice doesn't burn at the bottom of the pan.
• Once the rice is cooked, add in shrimp, season with salt and pepper, then continue simmering until the shrimp are cooked through.
• Enjoy!

QUICK AND EASY JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Boil sausage until hot, 8 to 12 minutes; drain.
• Heat canola oil in a pot over medium-high heat; saute sausage, celery, bell pepper, and onion in hot oil until vegetables start to soften, about 5 minutes.
• Stir chicken and Cajun seasoning into the vegetable mixture. Pour broth and tomatoes into the pot; bring to a boil, add the rice, and stir. Return mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover pot, and simmer mixture until for 5 minutes. Remove cover, stir, and continue to simmer until the rice has absorbed the liquid and is tender, about 5 minutes more.

JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Heat butter in tight, fully covered saucepan.
• Add onion and garlic, cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and juice and bring to a boil.
• Sprinkle rice on top of tomatoes.
• Add salt, pepper cayenne and soup mix.
• Cook for 15 minutes.
• Then add green pepper, celery, parsley and basil.
• If necessary, add a little water or tomato juice and cook for another 5 minutes.
• Transfer to a casserole dish and add shrimp, chicken and juices, sliced mushrooms.
• Cover tightly.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes 350°F till shrimp are cooked, but not overdone.