Eat This! Easy Holiday Slow Cooker Jambalaya

It’s started! The holiday crazy has begun! Running around like lunatics waiting till the last minute because after years and years we still haven’t learned our lessons! This is a time when most of us find sanctuary in the hundreds of drive thrus that litter our drive home. It is surely easier to pull in and order a value meal to go and be on our merry ways than to go home and make a home cooked meal…or is it? Besides the obvious health consequences and the immediate “ I feel gross. I am going on a diet tomorrow. “ that follows after you have ingested that last cold french fry. Money wise its really not a good choice. For the price of two of those drive through meals you can put together a relatively quick and healthy dinner that you can make in one batch and enjoy for a couple days. This Jambalaya recipe is my go to meal during the month of December. Its quick ,healthy, filling and bursting with flavor. Everything goes in one pot and I actually stock my freezer with bags of the Steam Fresh Brown Rice. So I can pop those in the microwave w This can also be prepped the night before throw everything in your crock pot cover and refrigerate then in the morning put the pot in the heating compartment of the crock pot and turn it on LOW so when you come home…its done!

Jambalaya (crock pot)

½ bottle of light beer

Chicken 1lb cut into pieces

1 package Turkey Kielbasa sliced

1 lb Cooked Shrimp peeled deveined

2 cans stewed tomatoes

1 onion diced

1 bell pepper diced

½ jalapeno diced

3 celery stalks sliced

1 packet Goya Sazon

1 garlic clove diced

1 bay leaf

3 tbsp franks red hot

1 tsp OLD BAY SEASONING

THE NIGHT BEFORE -put all ingredients EXCEPT the shrimp in crock pot cover and refrigerate. In the morning before you leave for work put the crock pot into warming vessel on LOW for 8 hours. When you come home add the shrimp and stir serve over rice.

THE DAY OF- Put all ingredients in crock pot on high for 3-4 hours until chicken is cooked through. Add the shrimp the last 10 minutes . Stir serve over rice.