Flavorful Slow Cooker Jambalaya
This flavorful Slow Cooker Jambalaya recipe is super easy to make, and full of bold Cajun flavors that everyone will love!
I teamed up with Eckrich to bring you this post. As always, all opinions are my own.
Whether you’ve got a busy weeknight ahead or you’re needing a crowd pleasing meal for game night, everyone needs a super tasty, but also super easy meal that they can throw together and forget. This oh so flavorful slow cooker jambalaya is totally that dish!
I kept things pretty traditional with shrimp, chicken, classic cajun seasonings and the rich, savory Eckrich Smoked Sausage. Eckrich Smoked Sausage is one of my favorite ingredients to use when I really want to take the flavor up a notch! It’s naturally hardwood smoked and crafted with the perfect combination of spices. Your family and friends will love it just as much as mine did!
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This flavorful recipe is super easy to make, and full of bold Cajun flavors that everyone will love!
- 1 (14 oz.) package Eckrich Smoked Sausage
- 1/2 lb. (about 2.5 cups) shredded chicken (I used rotisserie chicken)
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 yellow onion, diced
- 2 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1 (28 oz.) can crushed tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 cups uncooked brown rice
- 1 lb. uncooked shrimp, peeled and de-veined
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Spray crockpot with cooking spray. Slice sausage into 1/4 inch thick slices.
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Add the sausage along with all other ingredients, (except for shrimp), to slow cooker. Stir to combine.
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Cover and cook for 3-4 hours on high. Check to see if rice is cooked and tender.
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In the last 20 minutes of cooking and once rice is tender or seems close to being cooked completely, remove tails from shrimp and place into crockpot. Cover and cook for another 15-20 minutes, or until shrimp turns pink and is cooked through. Stir everything together, sprinkle with chopped parsley if desired, and enjoy!
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I teamed up with Eckrich to bring you this post. As always, all opinions are my own.
This sounds and looks amazing! I really need to get the ingredients and make this asap!
Oh my goodness I need to try this! it sounds like it would taste absolutely delicious and I bet it is just full of flavour with the mix of meal and shrimp.
Yum, I think I’d really enjoy this. I would be a fan of all the various flavors. Plus I love when I can use my slow cooker.
OMG! This looks fantastic! My mouth was watering and I don’t even eat Jambalaya. If only I had a slow cooker…
My son was dancing his little butt off to the music in your video.
I love jambalaya it is so flavorful and I really love that you can add anything you want and make it your own with more veggies more protein or whatever you want.
This sounds like the perfect recipe for our new Instant Pot! We like a little bit of spice in ours, so may add a dash or two of some hot flavoring/spice. Thanks for sharing and keep the yummy recipes coming!
I love slow cooker recipes, It´s kinda like just throw everything in there and let magic begin, this jambalaya here is a BIG winner! everything about sounds delicious, thanks for the recipe 🙂
YUM! Slow cookers are the BEST… I honestly don’t know what I did before having one. You are an amazing food photographer, by the way!
This looks so perfect for a cold night. Anything with shrimp is good in my books plus it is so simple to make as well. Thank you saving this one.
I am a vegetarian but would love to try this recipe with Paneer. I must say your photography is beautiful! This was a good read for me on a Saturday evening 🙂
looking at your photos make me hungry! my partner loves cooking this type of food and i showed this to him, we are now both excited to try! thank you!
Jambalaya is so good, and crockpot jambalaya sounds even better haha. I’ll have to dive it a try as I’m currently in my Winter Crockpot Meal Phase.
OMG, I about fell out of my chair when I saw the picture!!! This looks so yummy! I have already printed and pinned the recipe, and I can’t wait to try it!
I am always looking for new recipes to make in my slow cooker. I will have to give this jambalaya recipe a try. I am sure it will be a big hit.
That jamalaya looks amazing. Now it makes me want to go to NOLA.
This Flavorful Slow Cooker Jambalaya looks so good! I bet it was tasty! Thanks for the recipe!
This looks so good!! I am using my slow cooker less and less now, but this has inspired me to pull it out again!
This is really mouthwatering!! I love a good slow cooker recipe!! I will surely try it sometime!!
I like your jambalaya it is attractive to the eyes and appealing to the taste buds. Cajun seasoning added to mixture of shrimp and chicken added smoked sausage ensures a taste that is heavenly
This does look delicious. And I always love some good jambalaya. I will have to try this out. I usually make my jambalaya in a pot, but this would be such a convenience to do.
Me too, but this was super easy and I was able to just forget about it for a few hours! It was really convenient for me to throw some things in, do some work on my laptop, and come back to it to add the rice, leave it for another hour and a half, and then come back and add the shrimp. It was so simple!
I cant have tomatoes. Do you think I could sub pumpkin?
You could try that. I’m not sure, though. It would definitely change the flavor. Or you could just leave them out altogether, but you may need to add more broth or water. Good luck!
It was super flavorful, however, when I added the rice it didn’t cook. After an hour I increased the heat to high and it still didn’t cook. It was in for 2 1/2 hours. Not sure the problem.
I’m so sorry for your trouble. I think I had a typo in the instructions when both rice and shrimp were mentioned. I’ve edited to hopefully be more clear and hopefully result in fully cooked rice. Thanks for your message!
The sausage is not good. It’s very soft and has a weird mushy texture. But, I know she used this sausage because she teamed up with the company for this recipe. I would recommend a different brand/type. It’s not a good meal to cook with the intentions of having leftovers because the rice becomes too soft to refrigerate and then microwave. It wasn’t overly soft when it first finished cooking, but after being in the fridge and microwaving it was. I would alter the recipe to make less next time. I noticed that the recipe used rotisserie chicken – I just put in chunks of raw boneless skinless chicken thighs and it turned out wonderful for it. The taste was great, the sausage just had the texture issue. Otherwise, the recipe was great I would just change the sausage and make way less!