Jambalaya using the calculator

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Add chipotles.
Add Carrots - my wife loves carrots, so sometimes I commit sacrelige by using them.
Add mushrooms. Although frowned upon, many Cajuns do add mushrooms or mushroom gravy.
Make Oyster Jambalaya - pretty different than most jambalayas unless you're DTB.

What’s your reasoning for browning onions and then adding celery and bell pepper? Why?

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What’s your reasoning for browning onions and then adding celery and bell pepper? Why?

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Though not intended for me to answer, celery and bell pepper have more water. Onions have more natural sugars. If you sauté onions alone, carmelization is more successful. The moisture in celery and peppers will suppress carmelization if cooked together.

Note, he only adds water to deglaze.

Bell peppers and celery don’t brown/caramalize like onions. No point in running the risk of burning them.

Bell peppers and celery don’t “brown” like onions do. Shouldn’t have to explain that.

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Why don’t they brown like onions

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Because it’s not an onion? Why don’t cupcakes cook like French fries? Why don’t unicorns taste like pork?

I swear you are one annoying motherfricker.

There’s an answer, thank you.