Cajun Rice
Rice with a little kick — Cajun Rice and Sausage, a Popeyes Cajun Rice copycat, Creamy Cajun Rice, and plain Cajun Rice for busy weeknights.
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dinnerCajun Rice and Sausage
Linked sausage cooked with rice and rotel. Easy one pot dinner and delicious!
Teresa LuskIngredients
- 14 oz Smoked sausage
- 1 box Zattarains yellow rice
- 1 can Rotel drained
- 2 tsp Olive oil
- 1/3 cup Onion
- 1 tsp Minced garlic
- 1 tsp Cajun Seasoning
- 1 tsp Black pepper
- 2 1/2 cups Water
- 3 tbsp Salted butter
Instructions
- 1Slice smoked sausage and dice onion
- 2Heat olive oil in skillet.
- 3Cook sausage in skillet until brown. Drain sausage and set aside.
- 4Sauté onion in olive oil left from sausage until translucent.
- 5To sautéed onion, add water, butter, rice packet, rotel, garlic and pepper. Heat until boiling.
- 6Cover with lid and simmer 15 min.
- 7Add cooked sausage, stir, cover and simmer 10 more minutes.
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Rice stretches whatever you have on hand. Add smoked sausage, onion, and bell pepper, and you've got a full pan of supper that feeds everybody without a pile of dishes.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on the nights when nobody has decided what's for dinner, when there's a package of sausage in the fridge and rice in the pantry, and the crowd is hungry now.
Every recipe here leans on that same handful of things: Cajun Rice and Sausage with yellow rice and drained Rotel, a Popeyes Cajun Rice copycat with ground beef and long grain rice, Creamy Cajun Rice with Polish sausage and onion, and a simple Cajun Rice built on olive oil, onion, and green bell pepper.
Quick Tips
- 1
Brown the sausage first
Slice the smoked sausage into coins and brown it 5 to 6 minutes before anything else, then cook the onion and bell pepper in that fat.
- 2
Measure your liquid
Long grain rice wants about 2 cups liquid per cup of rice. Drain canned tomatoes well so the extra juice doesn't throw it off.
- 3
Let it sit covered
Once the rice is tender, pull it off the heat and leave the lid on 10 minutes. The grains firm up and quit sticking together.
- 4
Taste before more spice
Smoked sausage and boxed rice mixes are already salty, so wait until the last 5 minutes to add Cajun seasoning or salt.
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