Recipes/Americas/USA/Southern Comfort Jambalaya

Southern Comfort Jambalaya

Serves: 6

Preparation: less than 30 minutes

Cooking: 45 mins - 1 hour

Ingredients:

8 tbspn

Sunflower, vegetable or olive oil

450g

smoked sausage, sliced

450g

king prawns

500g

boneless chicken pieces

2

medium green peppers, chopped

1

medium red pepper, chopped

1

bunch of Spring Onions, chopped

1

large onion, chopped

4

sticks celery, chopped

2 tbspn

minced/crushed garlic

400g can

tinned tomatoes, with liquid

2 pints

chicken stock

250ml

Southern Comfort

2 tbspn

Worcestershire sauce

1½ tsp

dried thyme & oregano

½ tsp

freshly ground black pepper

1½ tsp

salt

500g

easy-cook American style rice

Method:

1.

In a large pot, sauté sausage in cooking oil until lightly browned

2.

Remove sausage from pot and sauté chicken until cooked

3.

Remove chicken and sauté onions, celery, garlic, green and red peppers until tender

4.

Then add tomatoes (with liquid), thyme, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper, and cook for 5 minutes

5.

Stir in rice and add chicken stock, SoCo, and Worcestershire sauce

6.

Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer, add sausage and chicken

7.

Once the rice has swollen and is part cooked add the prawns

8.

Simmer for 45 mins until the rice is fluffy, prawns are meat are cooked through

9.

Taste for seasoning, add salt, black pepper and more spices, depending on your personal taste

10.

Serve

NB: If you find the rice dry upon serving, add a tbsp mixture of water and SoCo and stir through to loosen the grains