Cajun Dirty Rice
This Louisiana style Creole dish made with fragrant rice, delicious plant-based chicken pieces, and vegetables is the perfect budget-friendly comfort food. The cajun seasoning mix makes this recipe spicy and delicious.
Cajun Dirty Rice Recipe
This year we are focusing on being frugal. Our goal for the year is to save up as much as we can by living frugally and saving as much as we can.
That's why I've challenged myself to create more budget recipes in the next few months. In doing so, I'm telling you now that I won't compromise two things: flavour and nutrition. Life's too short to eat bad food. I like my recipes to taste good and to be nutritious, with a few lovely treats in between.
Cajun Dirty Rice
Dirty rice is a traditional Louisiana Creole dish made from white rice, which gets its signature look from being cooked with small pieces of meat or ground meat, finely chopped vegetables and spiced with cayenne and black pepper.
This recipe is equally delicious with authentic chicken pieces and plant-based chicken, but it's also great to use mince for this recipe. My homemade Cajun seasoning mix gives the dish a good kick, too.
This Cajun Dirty Rice recipe is:
- Quick and easy
- Pantry friendly
- Vegan and vegetarian-friendly if you opt for plant-based meat
- Dairy-free, lactose-free
- Nut-free
- Egg-free
- Tasty
- Delicious
What you'll need to make Cajun Dirty Rice:
- Rice, cooked and cooled
- Vegan chicken pieces (or actual chicken if you prefer)
- Pepper, diced
- Onion, diced
- Cajun Seasoning Mix
- Vegan beef stock
- Frozen mixed vegetables
- Olive oil
This Louisiana style Creole dish made with fragrant rice, delicious plant-based chicken pieces, and vegetables is the perfect budget-friendly comfort food. The cajun seasoning mix makes this recipe spicy and delicious.
- 3 cups cooked rice
- 250 g plant-based chicken pieces
- 1 pepper, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 200 g mixed frozen vegetables
- 200 ml vegetables stock
- 2-3 tbsp Cajun seasoning mix
Heat the olive oil in a pan and add the onion. Sauté the onions until they are soft. Add the diced pepper and continue to sauté.
Add the mixed frozen vegetables and cook until hot through.
Set the vegetables aside and cook the vegan chicken pieces until cooked through. Add about 1-2 tsp of cajun seasoning (link again) to flavor the chicken pieces.
Combine the cooked rice, cooked vegetables, and vegan chicken pieces in the pan and add the vegan beef stock. Add 2-3 tablespoons of the Cajun Seasoning (link again) and toss everything together and heat until piping hot.