This serves 8 or more .......You'll understand by the end.
2 lbs chicken breast cubed
2 Medium onions Diced
garlic garlic garlic
3 bell peppers chopped (You pick the color) I prefer red and yellow
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper to your liking
1 Kielbasa sausage cubed
2 boxes Zatarain's Jambalaya Mix
1 lb Shelled and deveined shrimp or any other seafood you like in your Jambalaya (Optional)
4 1/2 cups water ----5 1/2 cups if you are out of the next ingredient
1 cup white wine (use the type you like or the one you didn't, I just hate to waste anything)
1/4 cup butter or spread
2 boxes cornbread mix (follow direction on the box to make batter)
Cook onions, peppers, chicken, garlic with olive oil in large dutch oven on top of camp stove or fire pit. Once onion is translucent add sausage to warm a couple minutes then transfer all to a bowl. Put water,wine and butter in dutch oven and bring to a boil. Add Zatarain's and let return to boil. Add the ingredients from the bowl to the dutch oven. Gently place the optional seafood around the entire top of your Jambalaya. Pour Cornbread batter evenly on top.
Depending on how you like to bake in your dutch oven you will need to get the dutch oven 300 degrees using briquets, camp oven, or using your camp fire and bake 30 mins.
Myself I take a different approach. On long riding weekends and on vacations I bring along my smoker. So I use it to make this recipe while I am smoking something for later. It usually takes about 3 hours this way but is worth the wait.
I get this all going before I leave home. I'll get everything chopped, diced, cubed and measured at home. After Breakfast the morning I want to do this, I fire up my briquet smoker and get a something going in it and go riding for the morning. When I come in to camp for breaks I check on the status of the meat in the smoker. At lunch time I'll start the Jambalaya and before I head out for the afternoon I'll put my dutch oven in the smoker on the top shelf to begin its cooking. Smoke from the smoker will not enter the dutch oven so the amount of smoke I use on the meat will not effect the Jambalaya.
If all went well. The meat you are smoking should be done and the Jambalaya as well. You'll need all this food now that you have created a feeding frenzy with all your new friends near your camp site.
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