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Après-Paddling Chef Recommends Quick Jambalaya

By Tim Tilson


Years ago, I submitted a recipe to the Cruiser for Paddling Pasta. This was a dish that could be cooked within 30 minutes after arriving home from paddling. Cheese was a significant ingredient. Unfortunately since then, I have been diagnosed as lactose Intolerant. So, no cheese for me. Recently I experimented with making a quick jambalaya, which came out to be excellent. Here’s how to do it:


Ingredients

2 Italian sausages

½ cup of rice

8 oz. chicken broth

¼ cup chopped onion

¼ cup chopped green pepper

1 small can of diced tomatoes

Jambalaya seasoning

Sliced lunch ham (optional)

Garlic powder to taste

Garlic salt to taste 

Red pepper to taste

Tabasco sauce to taste

Jambalaya

Illustration by Chat GPT

Turn the grill on medium.  


Spray your rice cooker and pour in the chicken broth. Add your rice and some oil. I usually make a ½ cup of rice in my cooker. Feel free to make more and increase the ingredients accordingly. Turn on.


Put your sausages on the grill.


Dice the onion, green pepper, and ham (if using). Sauté in olive oil for about 3-5 minutes.


Drain the tomatoes. Microwave on low for 3 minutes and then on high for 30 seconds to 1 minute.  Add to the peppers/onion.


Take the sausage off the grill and cut into medallions.


When the rice is ready, mix the pepper mixture into it, adding some oil or butter. Put in the sausage.  


Season to taste. As to jambalaya mix, I used Kingsford Jambalaya grilling mixture. When I went to make this, I had only a single sausage so I added some lunch meat to flesh it out. It should take about 30 minutes from start to finish.