Four Meat Jambalaya

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 -6 slices bacon, chopped
• 1 -2 boneless skinless chicken breast, chopped
• 3 small onions, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1/4 cup celery, diced
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 (16 ounce) package smoked sausage, chopped
• 1 lb shrimp, peeled and de-veined and cooked
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 1 1/2 cups long grain rice, uncooked
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground thyme (to taste)
• 1/2-3/4 teaspoon tabasco sauce (to taste)
• 1 bay leaf

Recipe

• 1 in a dutch oven, fry the bacon and chicken until they are done.
• 2 remove the bacon and chicken into a paper towel lined bowl. be sure and leave all the grease in the pan.
• 3 cook the onions, garlic, bell pepper and celery in the grease left in the dutch oven. about 5-7 minutes.
• 4 add the shrimp and sausage to the onion mixture and cook about 4 minutes or until heated through. be careful not to cook this to long or the shrimp will be tough.
• 5 remove this mixture from the pan.
• 6 add about a tablespoons of olive oil to the pan.
• 7 put in your rice and cook about ten minutes stirring frequently to prevent the rice from scorching.
• 8 add the chicken broth, tomatoes, salt, pepper, thyme, tabasco and bay leaf. stir.
• 9 bring this mixture to a boil and then turn heat down to simmer, cover and cook about 15-20 minutes.
• 10 remove bay leaf from rice mixture.
• 11 stir in your bacon and chicken mixture and your shrimp and onion mixture.
• 12 hope you enjoy this -- thank you to sue l from the zaar for the great ideas and recipe to take from.