Jambalaya Fest At My House Yesterday

[SigNate]

Alright, so just found out a couple of days ago that the OFFICIAL Jambaaya Fest was this weekend in Gonzales LA. Funny because all this week I had planned to make a jambalaya here at home this weekend. So I decided to use my small 5 gal. cast iron jambalaya rig and cook outside and have my own Jambalaya Fest. Cold beer included! Yeah this looks like a bunch of jambalaya but it won't last. Especially since I share it with friends and relatives.

Started out with cooking some homemade bacon and a cold beer. This wasn't one of my favorites but it was given to me as a birthday variety of beer. Kind of tasted like soap. Lol.......



Here's the setup I used.



That bacon smelled soooo..... good!



Bacon done I removed it and browned/cooked the pork which was a couple or two or three pounds of pork loin(I know the butt is better but this was from a whole pork loin I had to cook). I also cooked down the sausage a bit(no picture)and remove that to cook down the onions. Added some diced tasso to allow that flavor to dispearse throughout the stock



Sweating down the onions and added two cans of Rotel. I KNOW! No Tomatoes according to many but believe me this gives it a nice kick.



Pork stock was added and my seasonings.



Let that come to a light boil and then added the chicken. I smoked the chicken thighs to a temp of about 150* and removed them, let cool and cut into nice chunks.



Again let that come to a light boil and then added the pork and sausage.



Again let the temp come up to a light boil and added the rice.



Thirty five minutes later it was done!



I like to get a little meat in every bite when I make jambalaya.

[jchief]

Damn, now I am hungry.

Awesome

[Broke Down]

Agreed, that looks tasty!

[Bluechip]

I cooked a 15 gallon pot this morning. Nice job as always Sig.

[Cappy]

looks good man the gonzales fest is too strict for me. Since ya from around N.O. I will forgive ya for using rotel and pork loin but I can never forgive or condone parboiled rice sorry but it aint right.

[swamp snorkler]

I use Rotel when I make a shrimp and salt meat jambalaya. I pass it through the gyrator first, that's what my coonass buddy calls the food processor when he's drunk.

[bjhooper82]

Looks awesome as always sig! I've seen that beer at Rouses and almost grabbed it. Glad I didn't now.

[mriguy]

Looks fantastic!
Yea that beer sucks

[simplepeddler]

Looks great!........I am more a die hard being just from Ascension parish.....but I can eat anything good.

Just gave my future son in law 2 gallon from Krazy Kajun that I did some grinding on and got it nice and smooth......It's a round bottom with legs.......Jamb is so much easier with a round bottom.