Prize-Winning Creole Jambalaya

Recipes Ingredients:

3/4 c Chopped onion
1 c Uncooked long Grain white
1/2 c Chopped celery
- rice
1/4 c Chopped green pepper
1 c Water
2 Garlic cloves, minced
1 ts Sugar
2 tb Butter or margarine
1 ts Dried thyme
2 c Cubed fully cooked ham
1/2 ts Chili powder
1 cn Tomatoes with liquid, cut
1/4 ts Pepper
- up (28 oz.) 1 1/2
lb Fresh or frozen uncooked
1 cn Condensed Beef broth
-shrimp, peeled & deveined
- (10 1/2-oz.) 1
tb Chopped fresh parsley

Recipe Instructions:

In a Dutch oven, saute onion, celery, green pepper and Garlic in Butter until tender. Add next 9 ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until Rice is tender, about 25 minutes. Add shrimp and parsley; simmer uncovered, until shrimp are cooked, 7-10 minutes. Source: Country magazine (Aug. 1993)