Chicken and Chorizo Jambalaya

[Pheebs]

Made this the other day... and it was OM NOM NOM!

Really healthy too and the below quantity has fed us for 3 meals each (6 dishes)

2 x Chicken Boobs (sliced)
100g Chorizo (diced)
1 or 2 x Large Onion (diced)
1.5 x Red Pepper (diced)
3 x Garlic Cloves
1 x big big dollop of cajun spices (flavour to suit I probably made up a couple of tablespoons worth... I didn't have any cajun so made up my own with chilli, cayenne, smokey paprika, salt, pepper, oregano, thyme and garlic)
1 x clump parsley
500g (ish) x chicken stock
1 x can chopped tomatoes (I'm a canned tomato snob and use napolena only... massive difference imo)
0.5 x can of plum toms
400g / 450g rice (I just kind of bosh it in until it looks about a right amount to the other fud)

Stir fry the sliced booby chicken until golden brown. Plonk out of pan.

Lob in onions and garlic and cook until soft.

Add back in the booby chicken, chorizo, cajun spices and pepper with some chopped toms juice so it doesn't stick. Cook for a few minutes.

Bosh in all of chopped and plum toms, rice and some stock until the rice is covered.

Simmer but stir from time to time whilst the rice plumps up... adding more chicken juice stock when it starts sucking up all the rest...

Wait til rice is nommable. Dish up, served with some chopped parsley on top.

Nom.

Simple eh?

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!

[Psymonkee]

Sounds aces :D

Shall try it in place of my Paella :D

[Muban]

Love jambalaya, had tasty authentic stuff when I was on holiday in New Awlins. Oh and it always makes me want to sing this badly...

Pa2Tl5BeK-U

[volospian]

I made something like this on Saturday night. I called it a paella though. I didn't use cajun spices, and added prawns and mushrooms, plus some other stuff... I can't really remember now... a bit of chilli.... a yellow pepper, I think... oh, and about 300ml of Pinot Grigio instead of water...

I remember while eating it thinking that it needed a dash of lemon juice as the chorizo was quite oily and it had left a slight oily taste in the mouth. Not bad, (serves me right for not tasting it just before serving...) but if I made it again I'd use a sharper wine and maybe add some lemon.

/EDIT lostkat's post reminded me... no toms in mine either... so, not much like the original recipe here at all then :)

[lostkat]

Was reading this months good food mag today and they've put this recipe in saying its the most downloaded recipe from their website in 2011 and i can see why. looks yum !

My paella is quite similar to this too, but i use arborio rice and put in prawns. No tomatoes either. always have a squeeze of lemon to give it some zing.

No matter what the recipe says i always fry the chorizo first then cook everything in its lovely tasty oil. NOM

Need to try this! Thanks Pheebs :-)

[Pheebs]

I do a similar paella now I think about it also with arborio rice!! Wheee.... just with muscles and prawns etc! Haha!

I saw a few similar recipes online but to be honest I tend to chuck in loads more spices and chillis then what's said! OM nom nom :) I like simple recipes :D

[Will]

Nom!

That is all.

[leowyatt]

Sounds great!

[Glaucus]

Sounds wonderfull and anything with chorizo in gets my vote.

[lostkat]

Sounds wonderfull and anything with chorizo in gets my vote.
Ditto! :)

[lostkat]

Made this tonight. Blaaaaaaaady laaaaaaaaavely! :-)

[Pheebs]

\o/ :)