Jambalaya with Broad Beans Recipe

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Jambalaya with Broad Beans Recipe

Jambalaya with Broad Beans Recipe. This classic Louisiana creole dish is full of hearty seafood and chorizo paired with delicious cajun spices. It’s a perfect one-pot dish for weekend entertaining.

Serves 4

3 chicken thighs, chopped

2 chorizo, sliced

1 tbsp Cajun seasoning

1 tsp smoky paprika

¼ cup olive oil

1 onion, diced

2 garlic cloves, crushed

2 celery sticks, sliced

3 tomatoes, diced

2 cups medium-grain rice

1 bay leaf

1 tsp worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp hot-pepper sauce

1 litre chicken stock

1 blue swimmer crab, cleaned

and quartered

12 green prawns, peeled

12 mussels, cleaned

2 cups broad beans, blanched

and peeled

1 long green chilli, thinly sliced

fresh lime, to serve

1 Place chicken, chorizo, Cajun seasoning, and paprika in a large bowl; season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; and toss to combine.

2 Heat half the oil in a large frying pan over high heat. Add chicken and sausage mixture and cook, turning, for 2-3 minutes, or until brown.

3 Add onion, garlic, and celery, and cook for 3-4 minutes, or until golden. Add tomatoes, rice, bay leaf, worcestershire, hot-pepper sauce, and stock, and cook for 20 minutes, or until rice is still a bit crunchy. A

4 Add crab, prawns, and mussels, and cook for another 5-10 minutes, or until seafood is cooked through and all the mussels are open. Add broad beans and let warm through.

5 Sprinkle with chilli and serve with lots of fresh lime.

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