Almost Traditional Jambalaya
From foodiefreak 14 years ago
- 55 minutes to make
- Serves 8
It is almost traditional because I use drumsticks instead of cubed chicken. So sue me-I like tearing meat off bones!
Ingredients
- 1 large onion, chopped shopping list
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped shopping list
- 3 stalks celery with leaves, chopped shopping list
- 6 cloves garlic, chopped shopping list
- 1 pound andouille or smoked sausage, quartered and sliced shopping list
- 8 chicken legs (drumsticks) shopping list
- 3 teaspoons cayenne pepper shopping list
- 1 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil shopping list
- 3 bay leaves shopping list
- 3 cups rice shopping list
- 6 cups water shopping list
- 2 green onions, chopped shopping list
How to make it
- In large iron Dutch oven heat oil over medium heat.
- Season chicken with 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp cayenne. Add chicken to pot
- and sear and turn until all sides are brown, scraping bottom of pan to loosen browning bits. Remove from pot.
- Add sausage and sear until brown, scraping bottom regularly.
- Add veggies and garlic and remaining cayenne and salt to sausage. Cook for about 20 minutes, stirring regularly and scraping bottom until mixture is a dark caramel color.
- Add rice, tossing it until thoroughly coated.
- Add water and bay leaves. Stir thoroughly.
- Add drumsticks back into pot and bury them.
- Cover and cook over medium low heat for 30-35 minutes, until rice is
- cooked and all liquid is absorbed. Do not removed lid during cooking
- time.
- Remove from heat and stir in green onions. Let sit covered for 10 minutes.
- Taste before serving and add salt as needed to bring out flavors.
- To make it more traditional, substitute three chicken breasts or six chicken thighs chopped into cubes for the chicken legs. With this change, you can leave the chicken in the pot when you add the sausage.
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