Slow Cooker Jambalaya

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Slow Cooker Jambalaya, with chucks of chickenhearted and andouille sausage and tons of shrimp, is simply a ace flavorful 1 crockery meal. Since Mardi Gras is conscionable astir the corner, my belly has been craving each those fantastic New Orleans foods.

Slow Cooker Jambalaya successful a bowl.

It’s a confederate favourite that does truly good successful a dilatory cooker.

I’m particularly excited astir Mardi Gras this twelvemonth due to the fact that conjecture what??!!

I’m going!!

(Note: This station was primitively published January 9,2017.)

I haven’t been to Mardi Gras since I was a pupil astatine Tulane University and that was implicit 20 years ago. It’s going to beryllium truthful overmuch fun.

Jambalaya is 1 of my favourite foods from New Orleans. I emotion making this Crawfish Jambalaya, but for years I’ve been wanting to effort a Slow Cooker Jambalaya. This was my archetypal attempt, and I was truly blessed with however it turned out.

This Jambalaya has truthful galore layers of flavors.

For immoderate herb spirit (I similar a tomato-y Jambalaya), I utilized some diced tomatoes and herb paste. For the liquid, I utilized a tin of beef broth. You could usage chickenhearted broth instead, but I similar the deeper spirit that beef broth has.

For flavoring, I of people started with the Holy Trinity– onion, greenish pepper, and celery. Then I added garlic, bay leaves, oregano, basil, Cajun seasoning, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, and Worcestershire to circular retired the flavors.

Recipe Tips

To forestall a mushy mess, I cooked the atom separately but utilized the cooking liquid from the crock cookware to navigator it successful truthful that the atom soaked up each that spirit that had been simmering distant successful the crock pot.

Don’t overcook the shrimp. The shrimp lone request to spell successful the dilatory cooker for the past 30 minutes. Overcooked shrimp person a rubbery texture.

What Size Slow Cooker To Use?

A 6-quart dilatory cooker is the cleanable size, but a somewhat larger 1 volition enactment too.

How Many People Does It Serve?

This look makes a large crock cookware afloat of Jambalaya. Six precise ample servings oregon if you service it with plentifulness of breadstuff and possibly a salad, you could astir apt agelong it to 10.

Slow Cooker Jambalaya successful a bluish bowl.

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Storage

Leftovers volition support successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for 3 days. Shrimp are highly perishable and I truly don’t similar to support them for longer than 3 days.

More Slow Cooker Recipes To Try

More Jambalaya Recipes

Crawfish Jambalaya
Instant Pot Jambalaya
Paul Prudhomme’s Chicken and Tasso Jambalaya
Jambalaya Stuffed Peppers
Spaghetti Squash Jambalaya

Watch the abbreviated video beneath to spot however to marque Slow Cooker Jambalaya.

Slow Cooker Jambalaya

Slow Cooker Jambalaya, with chucks of chickenhearted and andouille sausage and tons of shrimp, is simply a ace flavorful 1 crockery meal.

Course Dinner, Main Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword Andouille sausage, cajun, rice, shrimp

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 4 hours 30 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 575kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1 (14.5-ounce) can beef broth
1 (8-ounce) can herb paste
2 bay leaves
2 teaspoons dried basil
1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning
1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
1 green doorbell pepper, seeded and chopped
2 celery ribs, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound Andouille sausage or usage kielbasa, chopped into slices
2 chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 1/2 cup white rice
1 tablespoon chopped caller parsley

Instructions

Combine 1st 12 ingredients successful a 6-quart dilatory cookerand disturbance to combine.
Add onion, greenish pepper, celery, garlic, sausage, and chicken. Stir to combine.
Cover crock cookware and navigator connected LOW 4 to 5 hours.
Set a larger strainer/sieve implicit a ample vessel and determination astir 75% of liquid successful the crock cookware done strainer. You should person astir 3 cups to navigator the atom in. Add h2o to get 3 cups if necessary.
Return each solids to crock pot. Stir successful parsley and shrimp. Cover crock cookware and navigator connected LOW 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring the 3 cups of liquid to a boil. Stir successful atom and navigator according to bundle directions.
Add cooked atom to dilatory cooker and premix in. Serve.

Notes

I tried to support the constituent database reasonably reasonable. For other flavor, effort adding 1/2 spoon of dried thyme and/or 1/2 spoon achromatic pepper.