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Shrimp Jambalaya

Ingredients
  

  • 6 oz. salt pork
  • 6 oz. onion diced
  • 6 oz. green bell peppers diced
  • 6 oz. red bell peppers diced
  • 6 oz. celery diced
  • 8 oz. ham diced
  • 5 cloves garlic minced
  • 8 oz. long grain rice
  • 2 tsp salt or to taste
  • Tabasco sauce to taste
  • 1 tsp thyme
  • 3 pints fish stock
  • 8 oz. garbanzo beans cooked & drained
  • 3 oz. olives pitted
  • 1 ½ lb. tomato concassé
  • 2 ¼ lb. large shrimp peeled & deveined
  • 20 okra
  • 3 tbsp parsley chopped

Instructions
 

  • Render the salt pork until it is lightly browned.
  • Add the onions, peppers, celery, ham, and garlic; cook them over high heat until aroma is apparent.
  • Add the rice; cook until the rice is coated with the rendered fat. (It should appear shiny.)
  • Add the salt, thyme, Tabasco, and stock.
  • Bring the mixture to a boil.
  • Add the garbanzos, olives, and tomato concassé.
  • Cover the pot and cook the mixture over low heatfor 20 minutes, or until the rice is nearly tender.
  • Add the shrimp; cover and cook until the shrimpare barely cooked through and the rice is tender.
  • Sauté the okra quickly and add it to thejambalaya.
  • Adjust seasoning to taste with salt, pepper, and Tabasco.
  • Garnish with parsley.