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Let's cook UV's simple jambalaya
Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Sunday, 5 December 2004, at 9:32 p.m.
Jambalaya is probably the best known coonass food, but shrouded in mystery on how it's made. Here's my super-simple recipe for feeding about 8:
Take about a pound or so of hot (spicy to you yankees, if you can't find hot, just add some Tabasco) smoked link sausage, cut it in 1/2" discs and put it in a big cast iron dutch oven and simmer it to get the fat to come out. Chop up a large white or yellow onion as fine as you can and put in with the sausage and saute' until the onion is clear. Chop up about a quarter cup of parsley and a few pods of fresh garlic and put in after the onions turn clear. Continue to saute' a few minutes until the parsley is limp. Then add a cup and a half of water and bring to a low boil. Now add about a pound or two of raw peeled shrimp and a cup and a half of long grained white rice. What the hell, throw in a teaspoon of thyme.
Stir all this just once, reduce the heat to a low boil, and cover it. Don't stir it again. Simmer under cover for about 30 minutes. It's OK to look at it now and then and if the mixture looks like it's sticking to the pot, raise it with a fork, but don't stir. When the grains of rice are nice and tender and not sticking to each other, it's ready. If during the 30 minutes or so it looks like it's getting too dry, add a little more water, if too watery, let it go a little longer. When done it's not watery or dry, just moist. Season to taste at the table, 'cause it's easy to add and impossible to take out.
UV
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