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Dinner · 45 min · Amounts not specified

Skillet jambalaya

Rice cooks in the pot. Sausage is the seasoning; chicken is the leftover.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 45 min

medium

Why tonight. Rice cooks in the pot. Sausage is the seasoning; chicken is the leftover.

What it needs

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  • chicken
  • sausage
  • rice
  • tomato
  • onion
  • celery

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: bell pepper, hot sauce.

Method

  1. Brown the sausage and chicken first and take them out. That fond on the base is where the color and depth come from.
  2. Trinity in the fat, then tomato cooked down, then rice stirred through until coated.
  3. Stock in, everything back on top, lid on, and then leave it alone. Stirring makes it gluey.
  4. Rest it ten minutes off the heat before forking through, and hot sauce at the table.

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Published minimums for what is in this

Published minimum internal temperaturesGround beef, pork, lamb and veal: 71°C, 160°F. Poultry, whole or ground: 74°C, 165°F.Ground beef, pork, lamb and veal71°C / 160°FPoultry, whole or ground74°C / 165°F40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
rice
Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
onion
The base under most of this library.
celery
Salinity and a bitter green edge, which is why it sits in so many bases without ever being the point.

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