Chicken Sausage and Shrimp Dirty Rice

I found this recipe online. I made it for Christmas Eve dinner and it turned out so good.  I made a few adjustments.  I added sweet potato instead of butternut squash. Try it you will really like it.

Chicken Sausage and Shrimp Dirty Rice

3/4 cup Jasmine rice ( cook with 1 cup water)

1/2 cup wild rice (already cooked from a can)

2 medium sized sweet potatoes (around a total pound)

1/2 lbs cauliflower, cut into florets

2-3 tbls olive oil

3/4 tsp cajun seasoning

2 andouille chicken sausages (cut into pieces and brown)

1/2 medium yellow onion diced

2 stalks celery, chopped

1/2 large green bell pepper

2-3 tbls olive oil

2 large garlic cloves, minced

1/2-1 tsp cajun seasoning

3/4 tsp paprika

1/4 tsp crushed red chilies

1/4 tsp dried thyme

1 can 14 ounce diced tomato

1/2 cup chicken stock

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

8-12 Jumbo shrimp with shell on and butterflied open

2 tbls fresh parsley, chopped

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

on a baking tray toss sweet potato and cauliflower with oil and seasoning, roast in oven until tender.

Meanwhile cook the rice in a pot with water. Drain wild rice and mix together.

In a large pan sauté sausage until browned, remove from pan. 

In the same pan, sauté onions, celery and bell peppers until tender, adding more olive oil if necessary. 

Add garlic, cook for a minute then add remaining spices and cook for another minute. 

Add tomatoes and stock, simmer on low until mixture has thickened, approximately 15 minutes.

Add Shrimp cook until cooked through stirring at times.

Fold in cooked rice, sausage, sweet potato and cauliflower, adjusting seasoning to taste with salt and pepper.

Sprinkle fresh parsley on and serve. Yum.

PRINTABLE RECIPE

if you can't find cooked wild rice in a can just make your own.