Dirty Rice with Sausage
This easy dirty rice with sausage recipe makes a quick and flavorful dish that is full of sausage, rice, and veggies cooking in Cajun spices!
Servings: 8
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pound bulk pork sausage*
- 1 medium onion diced
- 1 cup diced celery
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups white rice uncooked
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
- 4 tsp beef bouillon granules
- 1 green bell pepper diced
- 1 red bell pepper diced
- sliced green onions
- hot pepper sauce
Instructions
- Brown the sausage with the onion and celery in a large saute pan or dutch oven over medium heat. Break into small pieces as it cooks and cook until no pink remains. Drain off most of the fat from the meat and return to the pan.
- Add the rice, water, beef bouillon granules and Cajun seasoning. You can substitute beef broth or chicken broth for the bouillon and water if you prefer.
- Bring the sauce and rice to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Add the chopped bell peppers, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until the rice is cooked and tender.
- Remove the pan from the heat and allow the rice to sit for 4-5 minutes. Fluff the rice with a fork and serve. Garnish with sliced green onions or chopped fresh parsley. Serve with your favorite hot pepper sauce.
Notes
Notes:
Cajun seasoning: I recommend Slap Ya Mama Cajun Seasoning or Zatarains.
Make it spicier: switch the bulk pork sausage for hot sausage.
Make it more traditional by adding ½ pound of minced chicken livers during step 1.
Make it vegetarian by using Boca Crumbles or another vegetarian ground beef substitute and vegetable broth. If you are using a lower fat content meat, you will need to add a little olive oil to the pan to cook the veggies.
Other suitable meat substitutions would be ground beef, turkey, chicken or sliced smoked sausage. Lots of options with this recipe!