Healthy Jambalaya. Add Meat, Seafood, Or Veggies To Zatarain's® Original Jambalaya Mix for A One-Pot Dish. With sausage and shrimp, this paleo Creole recipe is even keto friendly, thanks to cauliflower rice! Surprisingly easy, too, and it comes together in a little less than an hour.
Luckily, the traditional ingredients used in jambalaya are pretty easy to accommodate in a healthy diet.
This Jambalaya is certainly loaded with healthy and nutritious ingredients.
Brush chicken with olive oil, season with salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and a dash of cayenne pepper.
You can Have Healthy Jambalaya using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Healthy Jambalaya
- What You needis 3 cups of brown rice I use Brown Basamati from Aldi.
- Lets Go Prepare 2 packs of Beef Sausage cut into rounds.
- It's 1 of whole onion.
- It's of I finely chopped green belle pepper.
- It's 2 (4 cups) of cans of crushed tomato sauce.
- What You needis 6 cups of water.
- What You needis of onion powder.
- What You needis of Louisiana seasoning.
- Lets Go Prepare of salt.
- Lets Go Prepare of pepper.
- Lets Go Prepare of lawrys garlic powder and parsley seasoning.
- What You needis of oregano.
To Freeze: Prepare recipe as directed. In a large, deep skillet, heat the oil until shimmering. I love that this Healthy Cajun Jambalaya is packed with different kinds of meat (chicken, ham, and shrimp), the trinity of vegetables (onions, bell peppers, and celery), and a slew of spices that give this jambalaya incredible Cajun flavor and a good kick of heat. The heat in this jambalaya isn't like Mexican food where there is a spicy burn.
Healthy Jambalaya instructions
- Chop onions, belle pepper, and sausage.
- In a pot add water, crushed tomato sauce, and rice. Now this is just me I add my seasonings then but I know I'm going to taste toward the end and add more based on taste.
- Add chopped onion belle pepper and sausage.
- Really simple boil all ingredients for about 2 1/2 hours but this is also just me..brown rice has to cook awhile so I medium cook the first hour slow cook the rest of the time. checking and stirring as I go..
- Once that brown rice rises to the top the first time turn on mid low probably last 30 mins.
- After that and you stir and taste and rice is tender it's seasoned we'll to taste turn pot off but let sit for 45 mins with lid on and left over heat the rice will plump more and thicken the jambalaya.
- You can do corn fritters to go with it or corn bread.
I need to add those to the blogging recipe to-do's. YUM! 😋 Seeing as how food is a big part of Mardi Gras and cajun culture, I thought I'd celebrate it with this chicken and sausage jambalaya recipe. You can modify this recipe and add shrimp if you want to. My son doesn't love shrimp, though. Jambalaya Ingredients: Alright, let's talk ingredients.