Creole Chicken And Sausage Jambalaya

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 2 -3 lbs chicken, boiled, deboned, and torn into manageable pieces
• 1 lb smoked sausage, sliced
• 1/2 cup onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon sugar (added in to my mom's recipe, she didn't remember doing it but it works)
• 1/2 cup bell pepper, chopped
• 1/2 cup celery, chopped
• 2/3 cup uncooked rice (! i don't want to figure out the liquid or cooking time difference on brown rice)
• 1 cup chicken broth (i used the broth from the boiled chicken)
• 1 cup tomato (or 1 can, drained but don't drain if you are freezing the recipe)
• 1 large garlic clove, minced (or as the recipe says, 1 large garlic toe)
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper (fresh ground, or to taste)
• 1 small bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (or to taste)

Recipe

• 1 saute sausage, onion, celery, and bell pepper with sugar (using the fat that renders from the sausage) in a dutch oven over medium heat.
• 2 cook until veggies are tender and sausage is slightly browned.
• 3 stir in rice, broth, tomatoes, and seasonings. bring to a boil over medium heat.
• 4 stir in chicken. put in oven and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.
• 5 fluff lightly with a fork. remove bay leaf.