Ingredients For Jambalaya: Part 1

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Hi! This is Dave for the Big Easy Catering Company in Santa Barbara, California, with expertvillage.com. Today, we’re going to be making a traditional Cajun jambalaya. Jambalaya comes from the word jambon, which is French for ham, a la, which means with, and ya is the Africanized term for rice. We’re going to be adding a few extra things to it other than that. So anyway, I would like to start to show how this is going to be jambalaya for one hundred people. So, this is a caterer’s amount. So, I am going to give you the recipe and the amounts where both the hundred people and for just 10 or so, and you can mix and match the spiciness that you like. First of all for a 100 hundred people, we start of with 20 bay leaves, about 15 teaspoons of salt, about 10 teaspoons of cayenne pepper to taste for sure, about 15 teaspoons of oregano leaves, about 8 teaspoons of white pepper, 10 teaspoons of black pepper and about 8 teaspoons of thyme leaves. Also, you want to start with a little vegetable oil to get the meat going, and the meat is going to be in this case, is going to use Tasso ham, usually get out 10 lbs. for 100 people, the smoked sausage, you get about 10 lbs. of that also for a 100 people, and then celery about 10 cups chopped, 15 cups of chopped onion, and about 8 cups of chopped bell pepper. You can… with the chicken, we usually for this recipe about 10 lbs. of chicken breast, although you can use any type of the bird that you want. We need a lot of minced garlic, I say about 15 tablespoons for me, but it is my preference. We need 1 large, large can of diced tomato, a little bit smaller can of tomato puree, a chicken stock about 20 cups, or you can use shrimp stock or just water if that’s what you have. We need about 5 cups of green onions as a garnish, and also to stir in at the end of the dish. And if you want to use shrimp in here we like did today, I would recommend about 10 lbs. for 100 people. Now if for just 10 people, we just need about 2 bay leaves, about 2 teaspoons of salt, 2 teaspoons of cayenne, 2 teaspoons of oregano, about 3 teaspoons of white pepper, 2 teaspoons of black pepper and about a teaspoon of thyme leaves. Vegetable oil again to cook the ham, and I would suggest just about 2 cups of the ham, 2 cups of sausage, 1 cup each of the celery and the green bell pepper, and 2 cups of the onions. Also, with the chicken again, for that amount of people, probably 2 lbs. or so will work just fine. Minced garlic is as much as you would like to taste, smaller can about 28 ounce can of diced tomato, or smaller can of the tomato puree or tomato sauce, whichever you prefer, chicken stock only about 2 cups in this case or shrimp stock, just some green onion as garnish. And then shrimp, I like a lot of shrimp, but you could probably just do 2 lbs. and that would be fine. So, let’s get cooking.

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