Cajun fried rice made with leftover Boiling Crab sauce. I ordered Boiling Crab to-go the other day and specifically ordered sausage and corn in a separate bag so I could get extra sauce to make fried rice with it (#lifehack number 1 – you’re welcome). I merged the leftover sauce from my seafood bag with it so I could have more sauce + seafood flavor.

Ingredients:

• Leftover Boiling Crab sauce
• Leftover Andouille Sausage
• 2 cups cooked Jasmine rice
• 1/4 of an onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 celery stalk
• 1 chicken bouillon powder
• 2 tbs tomato paste
• Garlic salt
• Oregano
• Soy sauce
• Sugar

Step 1 – Prep:

1. Dice onions small and cut celery to match the size.
2. Mince garlic.
3. Cut sausage into preferred bite-size.

Step 2 – Cook:

1. Heat up a pan, add canola oil and sauté onions and garlic till aromatic.
2. Toss in the celery, add in a sprinkle of oregano, and sauté until onions are translucent.
   1. I like adding in the dried herbs at this stage so that the flavor can be released in the oil (as opposed to adding it once the rice is in the pan).
3. Throw in the sausage and boiling crab sauce, basically cooking it to warm it up now.
4. Sprinkle of chicken bouillon powder
   1. I added this because I like things extra savory and thought it’d kick it up a notch (or maybe I’m just extra lol). It’ll probably taste fine without it so I wouldn’t go out of the way for it.
5. Throw in the cooked rice.
6. Squeeze in tomato paste – about 2 tablespoons
   1. Btw I just recently discovered tomato paste in a tube (#lifehack number 2 for the day – you’re welcome). The shelf life is much longer than an opened can of tomato paste (~45 days vs 5-7 days). So much easier and more convenient to use, especially when a recipe only calls for a little bit of it.
7. Continue to toss until everything is evenly mixed in.
   1. My rice was a little hard to mix because it was cold, so I turned my heat on low and covered it with a lid to let it soften up a little.
8. Sprinkle of sugar, garlic salt, and soy sauce to taste.
9. Garnish with window-sill re-grown green onions (in the time of COVID-19)

If I were to do this again:

• Add green bell peppers
• Or do everything exactly the same because it was delicious

Inspiration:

My mom, because she always makes fried rice with leftover lobster from Chinese restaurants.