Louisiana Creole Vegetable Jambalaya Food

CREOLE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven over medium-high heat, saute the onion, celery and green pepper in butter until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Add the next 9 ingredients; bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until rice is tender, about 25 minutes. , Add shrimp and parsley; simmer, uncovered, until shrimp turn pink, 7-10 minutes.

CREOLE-STYLE VEGETARIAN JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy pot over medium heat.
• Add the onions, shallots, celery, bell peppers and garlic and saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add the eggplant, squash, and zucchini, and saute until they're tender, about other 5 minutes or so.
• Add the tomatoes.
• Season with salt, Creole seasoning, and additional cayenne, if desired.
• Add the bay leaves.
• Add the rice and stir for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Heat the tomato paste in a non-stick pan and stir, making sure it doesn't stick or burn, until the sugars in the paste begin to caramelize, and the paste begins to turn a deep mahogany color.
• Deglaze with some of the vegetable stock, stir and combine thoroughly.
• Add the tomato paste to the rest of the vegetable stock and stir until well-blended.
• Add the vegetable stock/tomato mixture to vegetables, stir and cover.
• Cook for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the rice is tender and the liquid has been absorbed.
• Do not stir the jambalaya while it's cooking.
• Remove from heat and let stand for 2-3 minutes.
• Add the green onions and mix thoroughly.
• Garnish with some fresh long chives, and serve with a salad and good beer.

LOUISIANA CREOLE VEGETABLE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy pot over low heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring until wilted, 10 minutes. Add the garlic, celery, and carrots. Cook, stirring 1 minute longer.
• Mix in the thyme, paprika, salt, cayenne, and bay leaf.
• Add both of the bell pepper, the black eye peas, tomatoes with their juices, and broth.
• Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, partially covered, for 10 minutes for the flavors to blend.
• Adjust the seasonings. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
• Add the zucchini and bring the sauce to a boil. Stir in the rice, cover, reduce heat to low, and cover until the rice is tender, 20 minutes.
• Adjust the seasonings, stir in the parsley, and serve immediately.

LOUISIANA JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add red onions, 4 green onion, bell pepper, garlic, bay leaves, jalapeño, Creole Seasoning, cayenne pepper and oregano. Cover and cook until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes. Mix in tomato paste. Add sausage, ham, broth, tomatoes and rice. Bring mixture to simmer. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook until rice is very tender, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour. Garnish with remaining green onion and serve.

CREOLE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Chop the left over pork or chicken into small chunks and slice the smoked sausage.
• Chop the onions, Celery, Bell Pepper, Jalapeno and mince the garlic herbs and ham.
• Remove the skin from the sausage if it has any.
• In a heavy bottomed pot with a tight fitting lid, brown the pork sausage braking it up, after the sausage is good and brown remove it with a slotted spoon If you have a lot of rendered fat you can pour it out but leave a couple of table spoons so you can brown your veggies. If you don't have any fat left over use a couple table spoons of butter to brown your veggies,.
• Brown your onions bell pepper and celery slowly when slightly brown add the garlic, when that browns slightly, add the ham then minced herbs, bay leaf, cloves and chili powder stir till it starts smelling Good.
• Add the browned sausage, smoked sausage and left over meat and stir till everything is well mixed.
• Add broth and bring to a boil, as it boils taste the jambalaya to determine how salty and spicy you want to make it. Once your happy with the broth add the rice and let it come to a boil again. Put the lid on it, turn it down to a medium low and LEAVE IT ALONE for at least a half an hour before you go checking it.

CREOLE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, heat oil then add onions and bell pepper. Cook until onion is translucent.
• Add diced andouille. Cook, stirring often, for 10 minutes.
• Add rice, and continue to cook and stir for 5 minutes.
• Add all remaining ingredients.
• Allow mixture to come to a full rolling boil.
• Remove from heat and cover with a tight fitting lid. Do not open lid for at least 30 minutes, rice will steam and should be perfectly done.
• Stir and serve.

CREOLE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Melt the butter and sauté the sausage and chicken just a little bit.
• Add the onions and green pepper and sauté a little longer, until fragrant.
• Add the rest of the ingredients, bring to a boil, then cover and cook on low until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. This should take about 30 minutes.