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Smoked Sausage and Rice The smoked sausage is the trick here to get great flavour into this quick one pot dinner. Tastes like Jambalaya, minus the cajun flavours, and much faster to make. Everybody loves this!
I used kransky sausages but you can use any smoked sausages you want, including chorizo. You can even use raw sausages – see Note 1! Also feel free to use other vegetables – anything that can hold up to 20 minutes on the stove.
Instructions
Cook sausage: Heat 2 tbsp oil in a large heavy based pot over medium high heat. Add sausages and cook until golden. Remove with a slotted spoon.
Cook onion and garlic: Add remaining 1 tbsp oil. Add garlic and onion, cook for 2 minutes. Add capsicum and cook for 2 minutes until onion is translucent.
Add rice and liquid: Add rice, chicken stock, paprika, salt, pepper and the sausage. Stir, bring to boil, then reduce heat to low so it's simmering very gently.
Cover and cook: Cover with lid, cook 20 minutes.
Add peas and rest: Remove pot from stove. Working quickly, remove lid, add peas, then quickly put the lid back on. Rest 10 minutes – the residual heat with cook the peas.
Fluff and serve: Add parsley. Use a fork to fluff the rice. Serve immediately!
Recipe Notes
1. Smoked sausages – Any smoked sausage will work here. They are well seasoned so they leech a ton of flavour into the oil which then flavours the whole dish. Raw sausages – Even raw sausages will work because they too leave a ton of flavour in the pot! You can’t really slice them though because the meat is raw and squishy, so just cut into small chunks. They end up looking like mini meatballs – it’s so good!
2. Rice – Best made with long grain rice for this one pot cooking method because it’s the least sticky. Other rice types that work:
Basmati rice – same fluffy texture but you get the basmati aroma (which is lovely!)
Medium and short grain white rice – works perfectly but the rice is a bit stickier (that’s the way it is) so don’t expect the same rice texture you see in the video (it will clump a little more).
Jasmine rice – reduce water by 1/4 cup (water to rice ratio is lower, see here for cooking plain jasmine rice).
CREDIT - https://www.recipetineats.com/smoked-sausage-and-rice-quick-one-pot-meal/#wprm-recipe-container-66795
