Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Jambalaya is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Jambalaya is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:

1. Prepare 2 Bay leaves
2. Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
3. Take 1 1/2 tsp cayenne
4. Get 1 1/2 tsp crushed oregano
5. Take 1 1/4 tsp white pepper
6. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
7. Make ready 1 tsp thyme
8. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
9. Get 3 Tbsp fat or oil
10. Take 3 oz ham, chopped
11. Make ready 2 andouille sausages, cubed
12. Prepare 2 onions, diced
13. Make ready 4 stalks celery, diced
14. Get 1 green bell pepper, diced
15. Prepare 1 chicken boob, diced
16. Prepare 4 tomatoes, diced
17. Take 2 cups seafood stock
18. Prepare 2/3 cup tomato sauce
19. Take 2 cups converted rice (like uncle bens)
20. Prepare 1/2 lb raw shrimp, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
21. Get 10 oz oysters in their liquor, roughly chopped
22. Take 3 green onions, sliced

Jambalaya (/ ˌ dʒ æ m b ə ˈ l aɪ. ə / JAM-bə-LY-ə, / ˌ dʒ ʌ m-/ JUM-) is a popular dish of West African, French (especially Provençal cuisine), and Spanish influence, consisting mainly of meat and vegetables mixed with rice. Traditionally, the meat always includes sausage of some sort, often a smoked meat such as andouille, along with pork or chicken and seafood (less common. This quintessential dish from New Orleans is a spicy one-pot rice dish featuring chicken, andouille sausage, shrimp, and a whole host of Southern flavors. Jambalaya is a hallmark of the Creole cuisine.

Steps to make Jambalaya:

1. Prepare all ingredients before hand. This dish comes together in parts, and having everything mise en place helps. Plus you can sit back and drink some wine while it cooks. Add the spices and garlic together. Add the ham and sausage together. Add onion, celery, and bell peppers together. Add the shrimp and oysters together.
2. Heat the oven to 350F
3. Melt the fat over high heat in a 6qt dutch oven. I like to use duck fat or bacon grease. But if you want to use oil you can.
4. Add the ham and sausage and sauté until beginning to brown ~5 min
5. Add the onion, celery, and bell pepper. Cook until they begin to stick to the bottom of the pot. ~5 min
6. Add the chicken and cook for another 3 min.
7. Add the spices and garlic and cook another 3 min.
8. Add the tomatoes and cook another 8 min or until the tomatoes begin to give up their liquid.
9. Add the tomatoes sauce and stock and bring to a simmer
10. Add the rice, shrimp, oysters, and green onions.
11. Mix thoroughly and cover. Bake for 30 min.
12. Turn oven off, take jambalaya out and stir it. Place cover back on and let sit in hot oven another 30 min. Serve.

It is a versatile dish that combines cooked rice with a variety of ingredients that can include tomatoes, onion, green peppers and almost any kind of meat, poultry or shellfish. The dish varies widely from cook to cook. Some think the name derives from the French word jambon, meaning ham, the main ingredient in many of the first jambalayas. Jambalaya is a wildly popular dish that originated in New Orleans and was inspired by flavors around the world—Spanish, West African, and French to name a few. A fragrant chorizo, chicken and seafood jambalaya inspired by Creole cooking.

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