Cajun Chris’s Jambalaya

Joe Cahn’s New Orleans School of Cooking

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Floyd's American Pie

By Keith Floyd

Published 1989

  • About

This kind of Cajun risotto is traditionally the one-pot meal made at the end of the week from whatever is left in the larder - and since the Cajun people fish and hunt for their food along the bayou, that often includes things like alligator and racoon. As it’s tricky to get these at Sainsbury’s, you can make do quite happily with chicken and some good spicy sausage, such as chorizo. Or you could add some diced pork or ham, or even some seafood. It’s really up to you. Provided you keep to t