Meatball Jambalaya Recipes

FOUR MEAT JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a dutch oven, fry the bacon and chicken until they are done.
• Remove the bacon and chicken into a paper towel lined bowl. Be sure and leave all the grease in the pan.
• Cook the onions, garlic, bell pepper and celery in the grease left in the dutch oven. About 5-7 minutes.
• Add the shrimp and sausage to the onion mixture and cook about 4 minutes or until heated through. Be careful not to cook this to long or the shrimp will be tough.
• Remove this mixture from the pan.
• Add about a tablespoons of olive oil to the pan.
• Put in your rice and cook about ten minutes stirring frequently to prevent the rice from scorching.
• Add the chicken broth, tomatoes, salt, pepper, thyme, tabasco and bay leaf. Stir.
• Bring this mixture to a boil and then turn heat down to simmer, cover and cook about 15-20 minutes.
• Remove bay leaf from rice mixture.
• Stir in your bacon and chicken mixture and your shrimp and onion mixture.
• Hope you enjoy this -- Thank you to Sue L from the zaar for the great ideas and recipe to take from.

JAMBALAYA BALLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450°F. Drizzle the olive oil into a 12 × 17-inch rimmed baking sheet and use your hand to evenly coat the entire surface. Set aside.
• Combine the ground pork, ground chicken, sausage, shrimp, rice, onions, bell peppers, eggs, bread crumbs, tomato paste, garlic, paprika, red pepper flakes, cayenne, and salt in a large mixing bowl and mix by hand until thoroughly incorporated.
• Roll the mixture into round, 3/4-inch meatballs, making sure to pack the meat firmly. Place the balls in the prepared baking dish, being careful to line them up snugly and in even rows vertically and horizontally to form a grid. The meatballs should be touching one another.
• Roast for 14 minutes, or until the meatballs are firm and cooked through. A meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meatball should read 165°F.
• Allow the meatballs to cool for 5 minutes in the baking dish before serving.

MEATBALL JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• Combine tomatoes, rice, water, green pepper, onion, garlic, 3/4 teaspoons salt, oregano, thyme and bay leaf in 3 quart casserole. In large bowl mix remaining ingredients: shape into 1 1/2 inch meatballs and place in casserole. Cover and bake in 350* oven 1 hour and 15 minutes. or until rice is tender, stirring occasionally. If after 45 minutes rice is dry, add 1/4 cup boiling water).

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.

MIKE'S JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• If using smoked andouille, cut into 1/2" rounds, if using raw, cut into smallest possible pieces. Saute in a 5 quart dutch oven or wide stock pot until lightly browned. Remove with slotted spoon to a small bowl. Reserve rendered fat in dutch oven.
• Melt butter in rendered fat,and add garlic, green pepper, onion, and celery to the pan. Saute until soft.
• Add salt and pepper, to taste.
• Add thyme, basil, file and rice to vegetables and saute approximately 2 minutes.
• Add bay leaf and stir in tomatoes and chicken stock.
• Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer until rice is tender, approximately 20-25 minutes, stirring 2-3 times.
• Add chicken (or turkey) and stir gently until chicken the thoroughly warmed. Return sausage to the pan and add shrimp at this time. Simmer another 2-3 minutes until shrimp is warmed. Remove bay leaf. Serve with addtional salt, pepper, and hot sauce to taste.

PENNE AND MEATBALLS ALL'ARRABBIATA

Steps:

• Mix beef, panko, 1/4 cup parsley, egg white, salt, and black pepper in a large bowl until combined. Form mixture into 12 meatballs.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet; pan-fry meatballs in hot oil until browned on all sides, about 7 to 10 minutes. Remove meatballs from heat.
• Heat olive oil in a 6-quart Dutch oven or a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir mushrooms in hot oil until tender, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low and add garlic and red pepper flakes. Cook and stir until garlic is golden, about 5 minutes more. Stir canned and fresh tomatoes into mushrooms and season with salt.
• Drop meatballs into tomato sauce and stir in sugar; bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered until sauce is reduced and meatballs are no longer pink in the center, about 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a boil. Stir in penne and return to a boil. Cook pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until cooked through but still firm to the bite, about 11 minutes. Reserve 1 cup cooking water, then drain pasta.
• Stir penne pasta into meatball sauce; toss to coat. Stir pasta water into mixture if sauce becomes too dry. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup parsley to serve.

FORGOTTEN JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a 5 quart slow cooker, combine the tomatoes, broth and tomato paste.
• Stir in the green peppers, onion, celery, garlic and seasonings.
• Stir in chicken and sausage.
• Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or until chicken is tender.
• Stir in shrimp.
• Cover and cook 15-30 minutes longer or until shrimp turn pink.
• Serve with rice.

HOMEMADE JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute sausage for 1 minute. Add chicken; saute 2 minutes longer. Add the celery, onion, green pepper and garlic; saute for 2 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. , Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink; stir. Let stand for 5 minutes to absorb any remaining liquid before serving. Fluff with a fork.