Chinese Jambalaya Recipes

QUICK JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Cut sausage into 1/2-inch slices. Melt butter in a 5 to 6-quart pan over medium-high heat. Add sausage, onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until vegetables are soft and sausage is lightly browned.
• Stir in tomatoes, pepper sauce, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes and salt to taste. Bring to a boil; add shrimp. Cook 3 minutes or until shrimp are cooked and opaque in center.
• Gently stir in hot rice and cook 3-5 minutes or until heated through.

JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of peanut oil in a large heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Season the sausage and chicken pieces with Cajun seasoning. Saute sausage until browned. Remove with slotted spoon, and set aside. Add 1 tablespoon peanut oil, and saute chicken pieces until lightly browned on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside.
• In the same pot, saute onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic until tender. Stir in crushed tomatoes, and season with red pepper, black pepper, salt, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce and file powder. Stir in chicken and sausage. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the rice and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, or until liquid is absorbed.

EASY CHEESY JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• start cooking two cups of rice with 4 cups of water in a small pot over medium heat. For extra flavor cook with chicken broth instead.
• preheat a large stock pot on medium heat with two teaspoons of vegetable oil.
• Slice sausage and dice chicken into 1/2 inch size pieces.
• Brown meat until it is golden brown.
• Meanwhile, mince garlic. chop all the green pepper, onions, celery and mushrooms into 1/2 inch size pieces.
• When meat is browned add in all the chopped vegetables and stir to combine.
• Wait three minutes and pour can of diced tomatoes and juices over veggies. Add chicken broth and seasonings.
• Stir to combine and let simmer on stove for 20 minutes checking occasionally until done.
• Add cheese and pinch of corn starch and cook 10 more minutes.
• Remove from heat and serve over rice and top with shredded chesse.

JAMBALAYA (AUTHENTIC)

Steps:

• In a large pot, cover chicken with water and add the celery, quartered onion, and the 4 cloves of garlic. Boil until tender, approximately 1 hour.
• Reserve the stock. Remove the chicken from the bones & either cut, slice, cube or shred.
• In 5 cups of stock, cook rice until liquid is absorbed, about 25 minutes. The rice should be slightly moist.
• In a Dutch oven, saute the sausage and ham until slightly browned, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Remove the sausage and ham from the Dutch oven and set aside.
• Add butter to Dutch oven and saute the chopped onion, green bell pepper and parsley until tender, about 3 minutes.
• Into the Dutch oven, add the chicken, sausage, ham, the 2 cloves of minced garlic, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme, salt and pepper.
• Mix, and then add the rice and the cooked shrimp and mix thoroughly.
• Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, about 15 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

EASY JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• In a large dutch oven, saute the onions in the butter until soft.
• Add the rice, mixing until rice is coated.
• Simmer for about 5 minutes.
• Add the mushrooms and cajun seasoning to taste and simmer another 5 minutes.
• Stir in the tomatoes, onion soup and beef broth.
• Add your meat choice, and stir to combine.
• Cover the pot (dutch oven), and place in oven, baking 45-60 minutes.
• Stir once, halfway through cooking time.

CHINESE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Cook Zatarain's Jambalaya Mix according to package instructions, omitting the meat.
• Reserve.
• Heat oil in a wok.
• Add crab and cook until done.
• Add all the vegetables and lightly stir fry leaving vegetables crisp.
• Add the tomatoes.
• Do not overcook.
• Add soy sauce, pepper, and pecans and mix well.
• Add cooked Jambalaya, stir to mix well and cook until rice is hot.
• Can be served as an entree or side dish.