Jambalaya a la Creole

 Ingredients

• 1 cup of rice
• A rich brown chicken fricassee
• Optional ingredients:
• cooked tomatoes
• green peas
• okra
• fried tomatoes
• oysters
• butter

Directions

1. boil rice 5 minutes
2. put chicken fricassee in saucepan
3. add rice to chicken fricassee
4. do closely cover, let dry slowly, turn with fork

Additional Optional Directions 

1. add cooked tomatoes and butter (or)
2. add green peas with butter (or)
3. add okra and fried tomatoes (or)
4. oysters fried in butter

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Kaitlyn J. Spearman

Louisiana Anthology

June 3, 2018