Saturday, September 17, 2011

Mock Jumbalaya!

This is a go-to recipe at our house. You can choose to either make it the quick spur-of-the-moment way, or take a little more time and make it from scratch. Either way it is super yummy and easy!


Ingredients:
1 smoked sausage (I use that U-shaped kind) DOn't know what it's actually called
2 c. cooked brown rice (I often use the microwaveable pouch)
1 bag frozen cut up green/red peppers and onions (if you chop your own you need 1 of each pepper
        and 1 med onion.)
1 to 2 tsp or so cajun seasoning. Do this to your taste this is just a questimate!
1 to 2 tbsp butter

The next two are optional. Use one or use both what ever you have handy. It is great anyway you want to go!
2 boiled chicken breasts cut into cubes 
1 cup chopped up ham

Step 1 - Place butter in large skillet and begin to melt it. While you are waiting chop up the sausage into bite size pieces of your liking. 
Step 2 - throw sausage, onions, and peppers into the skillet. Cook on med heat until sausage is starting to brown and onions are almost cooked.
Step 3 - add others meats if you are using them and cook around 2 min. more to heat them up.
Step 4 - add remaining ingredients are stir well.  Cook for 5 or so min more until everything is nicely heated through.

Sneaky Tip -  You can easily hide about a cup of squash in this concoction. Or about 1/2 c. of sweet potatoes.  I have to puree these, or use baby food to truly sneak them by. But either one will work if you need to hide a veggie. Just add them when you add the rice.

Enjoy! We do at our house.  SOrry I don't have a pic to post. But it is good!

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