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Tasty meal for two guys or four girls. (Or one guy, his girlfriend, and her best friend. You get the idea.) All done with less than ten dollars worth of groceries and taking less than 10 minutes provided you have a microwave, can opener and a large mixing bowl!
*Time spent shopping not included. Sorry. Get the girlfriend to do it if you really hate shopping that much. =)
**Price of spices not included. Dudes should have basic spices on hand. Seriously.
*Time spent shopping not included. Sorry. Get the girlfriend to do it if you really hate shopping that much. =)
**Price of spices not included. Dudes should have basic spices on hand. Seriously.
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This recipie is pretty basic, as jambalaya is just a bunch of stuff heated up and cooked to perfection. The real secret to getting the whole thing made in less than 10 minutes is the rice, as seen.
1) $2 Birds Eye frozen rice to be exact. It is microwaved and the bag puffs up like a bag of popcorn, without all the popping. This stuff is sweet. I used southwest style because it has corn and carrots and such.
2) $.89 Black beans are just plain ol' black beans. You can get a regular sized can (umm 12oz?) and that works well, or you can get a bigger can (24 oz?) and make some black bean soup to go with it, but I digress... =)
3) $5.99 Shrimp is just shrimp, frozen cooked. Tail on or off is fine. I bought the tail on kind by accident, which meant I had to take an extra minute or two to squeeze all the tails off. But, since I'm a pro, I still finished with time to spare.
I got all the stuff at Wal-Mart. I know, I suck.
1) $2 Birds Eye frozen rice to be exact. It is microwaved and the bag puffs up like a bag of popcorn, without all the popping. This stuff is sweet. I used southwest style because it has corn and carrots and such.
2) $.89 Black beans are just plain ol' black beans. You can get a regular sized can (umm 12oz?) and that works well, or you can get a bigger can (24 oz?) and make some black bean soup to go with it, but I digress... =)
3) $5.99 Shrimp is just shrimp, frozen cooked. Tail on or off is fine. I bought the tail on kind by accident, which meant I had to take an extra minute or two to squeeze all the tails off. But, since I'm a pro, I still finished with time to spare.
I got all the stuff at Wal-Mart. I know, I suck.
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But seriously, I do what I can with what I got, just like most of the others here on the instructables website. And what I got is a microwave and some bowls, and a few spices.
What I don't "got" is a house in Louisiana and an authentic Jambalaya recipe.
I found one here and took the comments "what really holds it together is the rice and spice. " and "Packed with chili powder, paprika, and other seasonings" to heart, and made my jambalaya.
Just give it a try, or not.
And there shouldn't be any water at the bottom of the dish. The water off the beans gets soaked in by the rice. =)