MAKING JAMBALAYA (EASY ONE POT CAJUN DINNER) | SAM THE COOKING GUY

with nine ingredients in about 30 minutes you're eating jambalaya so great you'll think you're still in new orleans at mardi gras beads around your neck getting a food tummy okay so maybe mardi gras technically has passed but this is the season for this what i like about this one pan all the ingredients go in and boom 20 minutes later it's a celebration of flavors in your mouth it's so great and leftovers just late at night you come back from somebody's house the food sucked you open your fridge oh there's a tupperware with leftover jambalaya couple minutes in the microwave you're eating large happy as a clam or as they say in new orleans happy as a crawfish i think something like that okay you know i like to tell you what we're doing we're cutting vegetables we start them sauteing we cut some sausage we get that sauteing garlic whatever then in goes rice and broth seasoning we let it cook 20 minutes last five minutes shrimp go in they cook everybody comes out and we're living large so if you're ready well you're going to go along with whatever you do boys are you ready yep yeah let's go you know you got a little spill right there just just so you know yeah it was water i was taking a sip out of this first time drinking that's how it happened it happens just like that so we need this cut up uh tomatoes will come after right now we need about a cup of the pepper the onion and the celery so just do your thing sides off cup of each and in bite-size pieces right peppers like this and to me i always say think about how someone's gonna eat the food and if they're gonna need a knife and a fork to cut up something like this then that's just not it's not what you want especially jambalaya it's you know it's just a fork proposition it doesn't need anything else okay that's enough of that the onion i don't care what you use yellow white red they're all gonna work a little bit more from this kid onion's good celery's up next perfect i'll get the tomatoes prepared they're not going in yet but while i'm here perfect i think two tomatoes should be enough all right let's get the vegetables in our pan a little oil first you can see the pan's pretty hot they didn't go the vegetables oh damn it shot back at me sorry the pen has been heating a while all right all right okay we're softening you want to use a pan with a lid because we're going to cover this up once the rice and stuff get in wow that's pretty and while this is softening let's cut some sausage [Music] this is chorizo it's fully cooked it's delicious it's got some bite to it it's got some smokiness to it and it's what we want the slightly more traditional jambalaya thing would be andouille sausage max and chance but we're using chorizo because i love it and i couldn't find andouille sausage at the store so now just these guys into bites and we have a whole pound of them ah no no i think i just got very lucky again what are you doing man being stupid today okay have this at the ready we're gonna add some garlic in our pan and then our sausage will follow so you know i when i put garlic in i like to make a little home for it a little extra oil and i've got like three decent sized cloves right there wow look at that let's wait for that to get fragrant shall we yes thank you won't take long you need the affirmation i do i do this good color that we got on our vegetables that's what you want that's what you want it's flavor all this is flavor all this mmm the smell is lovely when you start to really smell it let's move it around mix it in and after a quick mix throw our sausage in and it looks like this so now we just want to get some of this good base flavor on our sausages let them start to get a little color on them because even though they're already cooked and even though a bite of them is going to be delicious if we did nothing else to them a little uh color is going to just sort of help intensify the flavor a bit so leave them for three four minutes give them a little stir every so often and then we carry on all right this is looking gorgeous smelling amazing you're gonna be a jambalaya king or queen before you know it time for a little spice and here's what we're using i'm using this this creole seasoning you could easily use old bay that would be fine this one is pretty accessible we're not pimping it we're just using it and i want about a tablespoon it'll look like this i think scatter it around mix it in and just start to toast it a little bit not for long i don't want to burn these spices and the pan's hot give this about 30 seconds then we're going to add a cup of white rice just like this we'll mix this around and start to toast the rice a tiny bit one pot dish man i love it love this stuff so when the rice gets a little color it starts to get some of the seasoning in it and the nonsense from the sausage and the vegetables now we'll follow up with our chicken broth could be vegetable broth we got two cups of broth now pour that in and we mix follow up with our tomatoes love it stir this together so everybody gets the benefit of all of these great flavors it's on medium heat and when it's mixed let it sit and when it comes to a quick little boil put the lid on turn it down give it about uh 10 uh 15 minutes and then we'll check it again and at the end of 15 look it say fantastique it's gorgeous but it's not done yet because now it needs some shrimp and by some shrimp i mean kind of a lot because everybody's gonna want a couple right this is about a pound of 16 20s you know that means there's between 16 and 20 per pound just trying to get them underneath the rice a little bit don't have to be perfect about this but once everybody's living happy in here let's close up shop give them five more minutes okay who's ready for gorgeousness anybody yes but everybody dang what did i promise perfectly cooked shrimp everything in here is just a feast for the eyes and the senses what the smell i'm getting right here rice is cooked nice everything i need one thing on top of this anybody want to guess who wants to guess go ahead something green yes little parsley there you go done one more there look at that that's amazing and it's time and gorgeous and ready to be loved i already love it actually so extra love maybe and here look everything it's just look you could have added chicken to this if you wanted you could have put crab in this if you wanted but but this for me the shrimp the sausage a few bites right here gosh what's not to love this is just straight freaking comfort food first a bite of some rice with some sausage oh my god the flavors if you've never had this you saw it it is so simple and now bite of a perfect shrimp perfect um five minutes that's all they need oh my god i could stand here and do this all day long but i won't because we received a present one for each of us i meant to read the letter and then we get to see our presents so this came from mike maltby and he says really nice things but he said i wanted to do something nice for you max and chance i like his last paragraph that says keep making stupid sam and stay safe with the covet number one fan from lowell indiana well so so here's what it is there's three of these and we each got one so i'll hand them to the boys boys i want you to speak up when i say turn don't turn yet don't turn yet i'm gonna start to open mine so people can see it are you ready ready fellas okay one two three open it you know what this is like a wrestling belt we all have our own custom wrestling belts wow look at this it's crazy and we mix and this is look this is here at least show chance bring yours here [Music] max it's got chargers on here that's what she said i'll cover that for the people that don't like that anymore fantastic chansey i've always wanted one and you should know these are 100 handmade like cut out cardboard all these little gems the raised cardboard for the glasses and stuff this is so so nice thank you so much mike this is awesome of you it means an awful lot you have no idea this is not like sending me a present this is making something this is i don't know where this is going to go but this will go in in a in an important place this is an incredible this is awesome awesome i know it's it's even bedazzled bedazzled is that the worst probably probably all right mike malpe from lowell indiana we salute you thank you very much this is so awesome thank you mike you got me a chance on camera max is he's the shy one mike i'm busy back here he's busy back there eating this amazing jambalaya you got to make it everybody thanks for hanging see ya see ya you

Channel: SAM THE COOKING GUY

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Id: tNGNj5GFBQI

Length: 12min 0sec (720 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 01 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/SquidSledge]

Protip from a Louisiana native: add tomatoes to your jambalaya if you want, use chorizo if you want, props for using Tony's... but PLEASE PLEASE take the dang shrimp tails off...

In Sam's own words: "think about how people are gonna eat this"

[u/monkeywrwnch99]

We eat Jambalaya once every other week, year round in our home. I agree with Sam in saying I love one pot/pan meals! Please make more meals like this.

[u/[deleted]]

100 percent making that this weekend. And any leftovers will be packed up for lunch on monday.

[u/green18green18]

This is a great recipe, although I'd suggest making a roux! Roux is just the combination of flour and fat (oil - grapeseed, canola, or something else like bacon fat). Nurse that for 45 minutes until it's the color of milk chocolate and then add your trinity. It's the thickening agent that all of your ingredients come together in.

I like that Sam used chorizo because in the spirit of cajun cooking, you cook with what's available. I'm sure chorizo is easier to find in SD than andouille.

[u/Job_Shopper_TN]

I cannot wait to try this. Looks amazeballs.