Instant Pot Chicken, Sausage, and Shrimp Jambalaya
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Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 12 ounces andouille sausage (Andouille is a spicy smoked Cajun sausage. If you don’t have access to it, substitute it with a Spanish chorizo or kielbasa.) cut into 1/2 inch slices
- 12 ounces chicken thighs boneless, skinless, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 pound Shrimp peeled and deveined
- 1 cup onion chopped
- 1 cup bell pepper chopped
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 1 tablespoon garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoningor to taste
- ½ teaspoon salt or to taste Quantity of salt will depend on your Cajun seasoning. If it’s more salty, go easy on the extra salt.
- 1½ cups long grain white or brown rice
- 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes with liquid
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 2 small bay leaves or 1 large
Instructions
- Rub shrimp with 1 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning and set aside.
- Press ‘Sauté’ and add oil to inner pot of Instant Pot. Add Andouille sausage, and cook until browned, about 6 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Add chicken, and cook until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Add onions, bell pepper, celery, and garlic. Stir until onion is translucent. Add thyme, Cajun seasoning, salt, rice and stir to coat, about 30 seconds.
- Stir in tomatoes, Worcestershire, chicken broth and bay leaves. Stir in the reserved sausage and chicken.
- Cook on ‘Manual’ setting for 7 minutes for white rice, 22 minutes for brown rice. Make sure steam release handle is in the ‘Sealing’ position. Do a Quick Release and open the Instant Pot.
- Carefully stir in shrimp. Close the Instant Pot and allow the shrimp to finish cooking in the residual heat for 10 minutes.
- Open the Instant Pot and gently stir the jambalaya. Serve with hot sauce on the side.
- Note: If any of the ingredients being sauted browns too quickly, press ‘Keep Warm/Cancel’ until the Instant Pot cools down a bit and press the ‘Saute’ button again to restart.