Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, jambalaya. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Jambalaya is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Jambalaya is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Opinions differ on how to cook a proper jambalaya, just as they differ on how to cook a gumbo or whether you. Jambalaya is such a culinary staple and storied dish in New Orleans the word is used to describe so much more than food. "What a crazy jambalaya of music at this festival." The dish has represented New Orleans since Colonial Spanish settlers tried reconstructing their native paella from locally-sourced ingredients. Jambalaya Ingredients: Alright, let's talk ingredients.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook jambalaya using 22 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Jambalaya:

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

Instructions 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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