Happy Fat Tuesday! Satisfy your craving for a Fat Tuesday favorite!
Ingredients:
- 1 pound shrimp (medium sized, peeled and deveined
- 1 pound raw chicken/turkey sausage
- 1 cup brown rice
- 2 cup chicken broth
- 1 large onion
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 green bell pepper
- 2 cups celery
- 2 cups chopped tomatoes (or 1 can diced tomatoes in a pinch)
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 6-10 cloves of garlic
- 2 tablespoons avocado or refined coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons no sodium creole seasoning
- 3-5 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1/2 tablespoon dried thyme
- 1 bunch green onions (garnish)
Instructions:
- Heat dutch oven over medium heat. While the pan heats up, chop chicken/turkey sausage. Add oil and chopped sausage, cook approx. for 5 minutes until sausage starts to brown, stir occasionally.
- Chop onions and bell peppers into a dice. Saute onions and bell peppers until they soften, about 5 minutes.
- Chop garlic into fine dice and add to dutch oven. Chop celery and add to dutch oven.
- Add chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce, chicken broth, bay leaves, and spices; bring to a boil.
- Rinse and drain rice, once the dutch oven is boiling, add in rice.
- Cook for 15-20 minutes until most the liquid has been absorbed. Add the shrimp and cook until shrimp turns whitish pink and starts to curl, about 2-5 minutes.
- Remove from heat, remove bay leaves. Let rest 5-10 minutes and chop green onions.
- Taste and add salt/pepper or hot sauce if needed.
- Serve and garnish with green onions, then enjoy!
