snakybus
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I couldn't find the old thread. I seem to be constantly running out of dinner ideas so post your recipes/suggestions here.
On Friday I made shrimp & sausage jambalaya (except I used prawns so it was prawn & sausage jambalaya). It's really easy and tastes great! It's well spicy.
I used two big toulouse sausages - chopped these up and fried them in two big knobs of butter. Then I threw in four tablespoons of cajun spices. You can get these in your fancy shops like Fallon & Byrne or whatever, or you can just use 1 tbsp cumin, 2 of paprika and half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. (I just realised my four tablespoons was way too much, explains why my jambalaya was super awesome HOT, but that's actually good because I like it like that)
The main thing is to fry the spices in the butter for a few minutes, then I threw in a can of tomatoes, then some chopped celery (2 stalks), a green pepper and 4 or 5 spring onions. I left those to saute for a couple of minutes, then added some salt and a bayleaf, stirred that in, and then threw in 750 mls of chicken stock. Then I threw in 150 g of brown rice. However, I found this wasn't enough and later I had to add some more rice (I actually used sushi rice as it cooks faster, worked grand). But next time I'll use maybe 200g of brown rice. I left this around half an hour until the rice was more or less cooked, then threw in the prawns, which cooked in a few minutes. I think it was around 400 g of prawns.
It was super yum with bread & butter and even nicer the next day. Rec-o-mmended.
On Friday I made shrimp & sausage jambalaya (except I used prawns so it was prawn & sausage jambalaya). It's really easy and tastes great! It's well spicy.
I used two big toulouse sausages - chopped these up and fried them in two big knobs of butter. Then I threw in four tablespoons of cajun spices. You can get these in your fancy shops like Fallon & Byrne or whatever, or you can just use 1 tbsp cumin, 2 of paprika and half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. (I just realised my four tablespoons was way too much, explains why my jambalaya was super awesome HOT, but that's actually good because I like it like that)
The main thing is to fry the spices in the butter for a few minutes, then I threw in a can of tomatoes, then some chopped celery (2 stalks), a green pepper and 4 or 5 spring onions. I left those to saute for a couple of minutes, then added some salt and a bayleaf, stirred that in, and then threw in 750 mls of chicken stock. Then I threw in 150 g of brown rice. However, I found this wasn't enough and later I had to add some more rice (I actually used sushi rice as it cooks faster, worked grand). But next time I'll use maybe 200g of brown rice. I left this around half an hour until the rice was more or less cooked, then threw in the prawns, which cooked in a few minutes. I think it was around 400 g of prawns.
It was super yum with bread & butter and even nicer the next day. Rec-o-mmended.