What's the difference between Jambalaya and Gumbo? What's a good recipe?!


Question: What I've eaten has shrimp, chicken and other stuff. It's spicy! Mmmm.....any good recipes?


Answers: What I've eaten has shrimp, chicken and other stuff. It's spicy! Mmmm.....any good recipes?

I believe gumbo has a lot of fish in it, not just shrimp. This one has no shrimp, my kids don't like shrimp. This is excellant, even without the shrimp. Jambalaya is usually spicy, like this one. It's as hot as the sausage you use.


Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

5 to 6 hot links (or other hot sausages), cut into bite size pieces
4 to 5 boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
garlic salt
pepper
1 tbs butter
1 cup chopped onion
? cup chopped celery
1 tsp minced garlic
2 cups white or brown minute rice
2 cups canned low sodium chicken broth

Place sausages in large deep pot with water to a depth of about 1 inch. Cook over medium-high heat until water boils away, about 10 minutes. Continue cooking the sausages until lightly brown. Remove sausages with slotted spoon and set aside.

Salt and pepper chicken pieces. Add butter to pan and cook over medium heat until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove chicken and set aside.

Add onion and celery to pot and sauté them until they are soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and chicken broth, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer for about 10-15 minutes. Add reserved sausage and chicken, stir. Makes 4-5 servings.

Here is a recipe for Jambalaya.

6 slices bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 cup chopped celery
1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
1 onion, chopped
1/2 pound cubed cooked ham
1/2 pound cubed cooked chicken

1/2 pound cubed smoked sausage
2 (14.5 ounce) cans crushed tomatoes,
with liquid
2 cups beef broth
2 cups chicken broth
1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
2 cups uncooked white rice

1/2 pound salad shrimp
DIRECTIONS:
1. Heat a large pot over medium-high heat. Add bacon, and cook until crisp. Remove bacon pieces with a slotted spoon, and set aside. Add celery, bell pepper, and onion to the bacon drippings, and cook until tender.
2. Add the ham, chicken and sausage to the pot, and pour in the tomatoes, beef broth and chicken broth. Season with thyme and Cajun seasoning. Bring to a boil, and add the rice. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes, until the rice is tender.
3. Stir in the shrimp and bacon just before serving, and heat through. If you use uncooked shrimp, let it cook for about 5 minutes before serving

Jambalaya is a rice dish and Gumbo is a thickened soup, not a huge difference in flavor, but ingredient quantity's very abit.\


for gumbo use above but add an additionl 1 cup of broth and use only 3/4 of a cup of rice, then thicken with 1 T corn starch or better yet about 1/2 cup sliced Okra durning last 5 min of cook time.

So yummey. Thanks for the dos puntos.





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