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Smoky Vegan Jambalaya

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Vegan jambalaya on a plate.
Photo by Emily Dorio

This one-pot meal is adapted from my Creole grandmother's recipe. When veganizing recipes it’s really important to find ways to add tons of seasoning (and love) to your plant-based dish. For this smoky vegan jambalaya, I do include plant-based sausage, which brings a lot of that Creole nostalgia, but I also create a smoky, spicy broth so that every grain of rice is penetrated with an explosion of flavor. Toasting the rice in the pot with the vegetables first, instead of just adding it to the simmering liquid, infuses the rice with flavor and also results in fluffy, separate grains.

This recipe was excerpted from 'Unbelievably Vegan' by Charity Morgan. Buy the full book on Amazon. This plant-based jambalaya appears in our Vegan Comfort Food Meal Plan for 2023. Click through for more vegan recipe inspiration →

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