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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:

1. 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.
2. Chop onions and bell peppers into a dice. Saute onions and bell peppers until they soften, about 5 minutes.
3. Chop garlic into fine dice and add to dutch oven. Chop celery and add to dutch oven.
4. Add chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce, chicken broth, bay leaves, and spices; bring to a boil.
5. Rinse and drain rice, once the dutch oven is boiling, add in rice.
6. 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.
7. Remove from heat, remove bay leaves. Let rest 5-10 minutes and chop green onions.
8. Taste and add salt/pepper or hot sauce if needed.
9. Serve and garnish with green onions, then enjoy!