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Easy Sausage Rice Recipe (Cajun Dirty Rice) in a skillet with seasoned ground sausage, rice, and scallion garnish.
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Easy Sausage Rice Recipe (Cajun Dirty Rice)

Easy Sausage Rice Recipe (Cajun Dirty Rice) is a one skillet 30 minute comfort dinner with savory ground pork sausage and pantry seasonings. Perfect leftover rice meal!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword sausage rice recipe
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Additional Time for Cooking Rice 25 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 6 servings
Calories 425kcal
Author Dana DeVolk

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Start by making the roux, place the flour and the butter into a small skillet over medium heat and whisk together.
    2 tablespoons flour, 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
    Starting the roux for Sausage Rice Recipe by combining flour and butter in a small skillet.
  • Continue to whisk until the mixture turns medium to dark brown, about 5 minutes. Set aside off the heat.
    Whisking the roux for Sausage Rice Recipe until medium to dark brown.
  • Place a Dutch oven or thick-bottomed large skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add the sausage, cumin, pepper, and paprika. Sear the sausage hard, mixing it with the spices and letting it brown, while breaking it up into crumbles. Bits will stick to the bottom of the pan.
    1 pound ground pork sausage, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, 1 teaspoon paprika
    Browning ground pork sausage with cumin, pepper, and paprika in a Dutch oven for Sausage Rice Recipe.
  • Deglaze the pan with 1/2 cup of the stock, scraping off all the browned bits on the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.
    3/4 cup chicken stock
    Deglazing the pan with chicken stock to lift the browned bits for Sausage Rice Recipe.
  • Add the garlic and mix in until fragrant, about 1 minute.
    3 cloves garlic
    Adding minced garlic to the sausage mixture for Sausage Rice Recipe.
  • Add the roux and stir to combine.
    Stirring the prepared roux into the sausage mixture for Sausage Rice Recipe.
  • Cook uncovered for 10 minutes, adding in the rest of the stock slowly so the mixture doesn’t completely dry out. Stir occasionally.
    Simmering the Sausage Rice Recipe mixture uncovered while adding the remaining stock.
  • Add the rice, stir to combine everything and warm the rice. Serve with scallion garnish, optional.
    3 cups cooked white rice, 2 scallions
    Adding cooked rice to the finished Sausage Rice Recipe sauce and stirring to combine.

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Notes

  1. Leftover rice is perfect for this recipe.
  2. We like ground pork sausage for this but hamburger or another sausage can be used.
  3. Double this recipe if you want to serve a large gathering.
  4. This can be frozen, see my tips above.
  5. You can make this as spicy or less spicy as you’d like, see my tips above.

Nutrition

Calories: 425kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 75mg | Sodium: 527mg | Potassium: 284mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 500IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 28mg | Iron: 2mg