Jambalaya recipe

Created by
  Print    Enlarge text

Rating:

5/ 5 stars 59 Votes
  • Cuisine: USA

A classic Louisiana, Creole dish from New Orleans – the ingredients are a testament to the unique blending of; French, African, Spanish and American influences. It’s believed to be an attempt to recreated the Spanish favourite, Paella – using new world ingredients and a different range of spices.

Ingredients

½ tbsp paprika
1 tsp cayenne pepper
½ tbsp dried oregano
½ tbsp dried thyme
1 red capsicum
4 sticks of celery, chopped
1 red onion
2 tsp of minced garlic (or garlic powder)
½ kg Andouille sausage, chopped (or chorizo)
1 kg boneless chicken breasts, diced
2 tbsp of tomato paste
1kg bag of converted rice, (parboiled rice)
3 cups chicken stock
1 tsp sea salt
6-8 large tomatoes, chopped

Preparation

Mix the spices together (paprika, cayenne pepper, oregano & thyme).

Pour some olive oil into a cast iron pot and heat before adding the vegetables. Add celery, capsicum, and red onion. Once they are nice and shiny, add 2 teaspoons of spice mix and blend well. Then add the grated garlic.

Next add chopped Adouille sausage, chopped breast of chicken, tomato paste, parboiled rice, chicken stock, the rest of the seasoning mix, salt and chopped tomatoes.
Mix all together and bring to a boil for approximately 3-5 minutes. Reduce heat and let mixture simmer for approximately 20- 25 minutes.

It is important to keep stirring to prevent the rice from sticking to the bottom of the pot. You may add a little more water as you go if drying out.

Serve with corn bread muffins.
 


If you enjoyed this Jambalaya recipe then browse more USA recipes, meat recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

USA Restaurants

Displaying 0 of 0 USA Restaurants.

  Restaurant Book Online Suburb

View all USA restaurants | Start a new search

Comments (12)

Previous Page 1 | 2 | Next
12 Apr 2011 09:03 AEST
Linda H
Sunshine Coast
"Jambalicious"
So simple, yet so flavoursome. I lightly pan-fry the diced chicken and bbq the chorizo sausages before adding to the pot. Last time I also added some diced lean bacon for extra smokey flavour. The Merlot sounds like a great idea! One of our favourite dishes now. Have passed on this recipe to lots of friends.
Agree(1 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
21 Oct 2010 10:20 AEST
dorothea
bulimba
Question
Where do you actually watch the full episode? Because I really want to show someone the diner part, with all the delicious burgers lol :(
Agree(0 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
29 Jul 2010 08:09 AEST
Trina
Grays Point NSW
question??
I am going to make this on the weekend, wondering if anyone knows how many it serves and if you can use un-parboiled rice in the recipe, ie: just dried arborio rice?
Agree(4 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
19 Apr 2010 10:10 AEST
Clint
Cottesloe
Amazing
So delicious, perfect share-house food - my housemate's mouths are watering!
Agree(1 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
04 Jan 2010 03:45 AEST
Carmen
romania
Yammi
Thank you for the recipe, tasy nd easy to make! Very delicious!
Agree(1 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
10 Oct 2009 04:05 AEST
Cleobytheseao
Scotland
"Pantastistic!"
Very easy dish to make, the hardest part was waiting for it to cool down so I could eat it. I used arborrio rice because I didn't have anything else but it was creamy and scrumptious. I love Food Safari.
Agree(2 people agree)
Disagree(1 people disagree)
20 Jul 2009 04:12 AEST
Pat
Loganlea QLD
Very delicious!!
Thanks for the recipe Victor! I used chorizo sausages and instead of chicken I used prawn. Absolutely wonderful dish to cook, very much enjoyed it!
Agree(1 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
11 Jun 2009 12:33 AEST
Victoria
Radelaide
WOW!!
This was amazing, so flavoursome and delicious! The boy only stopped stuffing his face to say, "wow!", which he gasped several times in awe of this delicious dish's flavours. This has become my new "impressing people"; they'll never know how easy and cheap it is to make!
Agree(2 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)
   

Comment on this recipe

You have characters left.
Validation ( What's this? ) : This is a captcha-picture. It is used to prevent mass-access by robots.

PLEASE NOTE: All submitted comments become the property of SBS. We reserve the right to edit and/or amend submitted comments. HTML tags other than paragraph, line break, bold or italics will be removed from your comment.

ADVERTISEMENT

Featured Food & Recipes

Hot Tips

Best mashed potato

For the perfect mash boil or steam floury potatoes until tender. Drain and cover with a clean tea towel to dry out. Meanwhile warm cream or milk and butter gently in a small saucepan. Peel away potato skin and press through a potato mill into a clean pot. Beat in milk mixture.

Glossary

Dukkah

A nutty Egyptian spice mix, made by mixing roasted nuts like hazelnuts with cumin and sesame seeds.

 
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
 
 
ADVERTISEMENT