Any southern chefs here?

[bhu]

I tried a southern dish composed mostly of chicken, chicken stock, long  grain rice and sausage tonight,  I'm told it's cajun, and begins with a P (it sounded something like 'prole').  I know it's not paella, and it's not jambalya.

[Chemus]

I'm not a chef, but I've a little book-larnin' w/ food. Your description of chicken, rice and sausage sounds a bit like gumbo. Gumbo (and jambalaya) are creole rather than cajun, in that they were in Louisiana before the acadians were. That's not to say that cajuns don't make/eat a lot of creole food, just that they're not necessarily the originators.

Gumbo is a sort of stew made with a roux as thickener and flavor, often has bell peppers, onions, celery, okra,  andouille (sausage) and some sort of meat. Served over rice.

[bhu]

I've had gumbo aplenty, this was more like risotto than gumbo.

[Chemus]

Oh, well I'm sorry I couldn't help. My only other idea is that someone misinterpreted 'creole' as 'preole'. That could account for the hard to place name. Creole risotto would be a descriptive name if that were the case

[bhu]

They swore it's a cajun dish, but this is the first I've ever seen of it.  The main ingredients would be easy to get, it's the spice mix I need to figure out to fix it on my own.

And sadly when i google cajun rice dishes all I get are jambalya, gumbo, and paella (which is odd cause Paella is spanish). 

Thanks for the help Chemus!

[linklord231]

Could be something like this, if they called it "piquant rice". 

[bhu]

It's close,  this had no veggies of any kind except maybe some onion.

[bhu]

Perlo!!!


http://www.satisfyingeats.com/main-dishes/daddys-chicken-perlo/  It's something like this

Damn that took forever