Jambalaya (authentic)

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 small broiler-fryer chicken
• 1 stalk celery (cut into bit size pieces with leaves)
• 1 onion (quartered)
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2 cups converted long grain rice
• 1 lb cooked and peeled shrimp
• 1 lb smoked sausage (sliced)
• 1 lb ham (cubed)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup yellow onion (chopped)
• 3/4 cup green bell pepper (chopped)
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley (chopped)
• 2 garlic cloves (minced)
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 1 large bay leaf
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 reserve the stock. remove the chicken from the bones & either cut, slice, cube or shred.
• 3 in 5 cups of stock, cook rice until liquid is absorbed, about 25 minutes. the rice should be slightly moist.
• 4 in a dutch oven, saute the sausage and ham until slightly browned, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• 5 remove the sausage and ham from the dutch oven and set aside.
• 6 add butter to dutch oven and saute the chopped onion, green bell pepper and parsley until tender, about 3 minutes.
• 7 into the dutch oven, add the chicken, sausage, ham, the 2 cloves of minced garlic, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme, salt and pepper.
• 8 mix, and then add the rice and the cooked shrimp and mix thoroughly.
• 9 cook over low heat, stirring constantly, about 15 minutes.
• 10 remove bay leaf and serve.