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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Distribution: world
From: burdick@hditest1.crd.ge.com
Date: 2 Oct 91 17:44:16 GMT
Subject: MEAT: Jambalaya
Summary: orig. subject: RECIPE: Seafood (or Chicken) Jambalaya (from Paul Prudhomme)
Archive-Name: recipes/meat/jambalaya
Keywords: recipe meat jambalaya
Followup-To: rec.food.cooking
Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
Approved: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu
The following recipe was taken from "K-Paul's Louisiana Cajun Magic
Cookbook" by Chef Paul Prudhomme (copyright by Paul Prudhomme). For
more information on Cajun Magic and/or Paul Prudhomme cookbooks, etc.,
call 1-800-4 KPAULS or write to KPAULS Enterprises, PO Box 770034 New
Orleans, LA 70177-0034. Personal commentary and advice follows the
original recipe (see COMMENTS section).
SEAFOOD JAMBALAYA
Ingredients
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2 1/2 tablespoons chicken fat, pork lard, beef fat or butter
2/3 cup chopped tasso (preferred) or other smoked ham (preferably
Cure 81)
1/2 cup chopped andouille smoked sausage (preferred) or any other
good pork sausage such as Polish sausage (kielbasa)
1 1/2 cups chopped onions
1 cup chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped green Bell peppers
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons plus 1 1/2 teaspoons Cajun Magic Seafood Magic
1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic
4 cups peeled and chopped tomatoes (about 4 medium size)
3/4 cup tomato sauce
2 cups Basic Seafood Stock
1/2 cup chopped green onions
2 cups uncooked rice (preferably converted)
1 pound peeled crabmeat, crawfish or firm-fleshed fish fillets
(cut into bite-sized pieces), or any combination of these that
equals one pound
1 1/2 dozen oysters in their liquor (medium size oysters)
1 1/2 dozen peeled medium shrimp (about 1/2 pound)
Procedure
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Melt the chicken fat in a two quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the
tasso and andouille and saute until crisp, about five to eight minutes,
stirring frequently. Add the onions, celery, and Bell peppers; saute
until tender but still firm, about five minutes, stirring occasionally
and scraping the pan bottom well. Add the bay leaves, Cajun Magic
Seafood Magic and garlic; cook about three minutes, stirring constantly
and scraping the pan bottom as needed. Add the tomatoes and cook about
seven minutes, stirring frequently. Add the tomato sauce; cook about
seven minutes more, stirring fairly often. Stir in the stock and bring
to a boil. Then stir in the green onions and cook about two minutes,
stirring once or twice. Add the rice, crabmeat, crawfish, and/or fish
and the oysters and shrimp; stir well and remove from heat. Transfer
mixture to an ungreased 13 X 9 inch baking dish/pan. Cover dish/pan
snugly with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees F until rice is
tender but still crunchy, about twenty or thirty minutes. Remove from
oven. If you still have liquid in the dish/pan bottom, let sit for a
few minutes, still covered, to allow rice to absorb the liquid. Remove
bay leaves and serve immediately. To serve, mold rice in an eight
ounce cup and place two cups on each serving plate as main course or
one cup as an appetizer.
COMMENTS:
1. This stuff is great but time consuming to make. Makes enough
to serve four to six ... easily! See the following substitution
suggestions if you're not up to the full-blown recipe effort.
2. Do not attempt to substitute for the Cajun Magic; its a lot
better if you use as directed.
3. If you never heard of or tasted andouille ... simply put, its
the Cajun (actually andouille is of German and French origins)
version of smoked sausage; its the spicy equivalent of Polish
kielbasa. If you have a real good German or Polish butcher
shop in your area try to get kielbasa; if you can't find
anything other than supermarket "stuff", give KPAULS a call.
I'll warn you ... andouille goes for about $12-$15 per pound!
Substitutes:
1. Use bottled clam juice instead of Seafood stock; making the
seafood stock will smell up your whole house for days and its
really not worth the effort.
2. Try making a chicken jambalaya ... i.e. substitute chicken
for fish (about 1 1/2 pounds). Also, use two to three cups
of chicken stock (canned is fine) in place of the seafood stock.
I prefer Chicken jambalaya ... tastes just as good ... lots less
work!
BASIC SEAFOOD STOCK
Ingredients
-----------
About 2 quarts cold water
1 1/2 to 2 pounds rinsed shrimp heads and/or shells, crawfish heads
and/or shells or crab shells (ten to twelve cups), rinsed
fish carcasses (heads and gills removed), or any combination
of these.
1 medium onion, unpeeled and quartered
1 rib celery
1 large clove garlic, unpeeled and quartered
Procedure
---------
Place all the ingredients in a large saucepan; bring to a boil over
high heat; reduce heat and simmer gently at least four hours,
preferably eight, replenishing water as needed to keep about one quart
of liquid in the pan. Strain, cool and refrigerate until ready to
use. Makes one quart.
Bon appetite! Any questions, comments, etc., contact me.
burdick@hditest1.crd.ge.com