Coonasses, how long do you cook down your vegetables when making jambalaya?

Only vegetable I put in jambalaya is onion. Cook em down after I brown the sausage.

It takes about 3 to 3-1/2 beer to allow the veggies enough time to cook down enough to start throwing in the meet

I only use onions...nothing green. It’s jambalaya, not salad.

Depends on the sze of the pot. 5 lbs of onions takes about 30 minutes. 25 lbs of onions closer to a hour.

There's some seriously crazy people reading his thread.

brown and cook meat first then set it aside (the meat residue stuck to pot adds flavor), now make a roux in the pot add then add the onions, shallots, garlic, and bell peppers, simmer that down until the onions turn clear, then throw the meat back in and start adding the rest of everything your recipe uses

I’ve always browned meat first then put aside, toss in trinity and that cook it down for way past clear, deglazing multiple times picking up the brown bits... by this time my trinity is half sugar and dark brown by this point... then add garlic for a few minutes and toss meat back in. Maybe it’s overkill. Usually I don’t even feel like eating by the time it’s done.

It takes me longer to brown the onions than to brown my meat and cook the rice combined, probably about an hour at least. I also save about 1/5 of whatever bell pepper I'm using and add it when I add my stock.

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the meat residue stuck to pot adds flavor

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Everything you put in the pot adds flavor. The meat residue stuck to the side of the pot is where the color comes from.

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now make a roux

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It's fricking jambalaya

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Keakar has become one of my favorite posters, he’s constantly wrong about almost everything