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Summary: How and when to add stock or shrimp stock when making authentic Cajun jambalaya; learn more about making traditional Cajun food in this free cooking video.
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David Postada David Postada is Chef and owner of the Big Easy Catering company in Santa Barbara, California. read more
Hi! This is Dave for expertvillage.com. We’re putting together the jambalaya now, we have got several layers of flavor going. Next is going to be our stock. Now, if you do not have a stock available to you, you can also use water; that will be fine with all the other flavors, that will be great to you, but I would like to use either a shrimp stock if you have made some, or else they do make some great products that you can mix with boiling water; and create your own shrimp stock that way, or you can use chicken stock, which I have chosen to do today, because we are also going to add chicken to this. It also goes well with the shrimp. So, what we are going to do, this is about 20 cups but again this is for 100 people. So, I am putting white stock in, and get that distributed around, and then just stir that right again. Make sure that you scrape up the bottom of the pots, as you have a lot of flavor down there. As you see the color has changed to real rich, a sort of light brown, and thus we will know all others layers of flavor that we put in earlier, and you have the stock again, water is fine too. We’ll let this simmer for about a whole 50 minutes or so, to get all that flavor together, and then will be ready for the next ingredient.