Recipe - Creole Hot Sausage

Three fourths cup Chopped Onion
One half cup Chopped Celery
One fourth cup Chopped Green Pepper
2 Garlic cloves (minced)
2 tablespoon Butter or Margerine
2 cup Cubed Fully Cooked Ham
1 Can (28 oz) Tomatoes with
Liquid (cut up)
1 Can (10 One half oz) Condensed
Beef Broth
1 cup Uncooked Long Grain White
Rice
1 cup Water
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Dried Thyme
One half teaspoon Chili Powder
One fourth teaspoon Pepper
1 One half pound Fresh or Frozen Uncooked
Shrimp, Peeled and Deveined
1 tablespoon Chopped Fresh Parsley

In a Dutch oven, saute onion, celery, green pepper and garlic in butter
until tender. Add next 9 ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover
and simmer until rice is tender, about 25 minutes. Add shrimp and parsley:
simmer uncovered, until shrimp are cooked, 710 min.

Diabetic Exchanges: One serving (prepared with margerine and lowsodium
tomatoes and beef broth) equals 3 lean meat, 1One half starch, 1 vegetable,
also 310 calories, 464 mg sodium, 154 mg cholesterol, 28 gm carbohydrate,
31 gm protein, 8 gm fat.

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