Jambalaya

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 (16 ounce) package polish sausage
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 1 bell pepper
• 2 cups rice
• 4 cups water
• 2 (15 ounce) cans diced tomatoes
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce (optional)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon dried rosemary
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• 5 -6 dashes hot pepper sauce
• 1 (10 ounce) package baby shrimp (optional)

Recipe

• 1 chop onion and pepper roughly.
• 2 slice polish sausage into 1/4" slices.
• 3 in a large pot heat oil and add polish sausage.
• 4 cook for 1-2 minutes.
• 5 add onion and pepper.
• 6 cook until onion is translucent.
• 7 add all other ingredients except shrimp.
• 8 (the optional tomato sauce just makes it more tomato-y) stir.
• 9 cover and simmer on medium stirring at every 15 minutes.
• 10 taste and re season as needed.
• 11 when rice is almost cooked (35-45 minutes) add shrimp.
• 12 cook an additional 10 minutes.
• 13 enjoy.