4 minute, 40 second Jambalaya with packaged rice and Andouille sausage

The finished product

When you're too tired to cook, cook this. It takes 5 minutes. Really 5 minutes, from entering the kitchen to leaving it. So if you're beat, prep this, go rest for an hour, and then enjoy a delicious, healthy meal.

Tools needed:

1. Micom rice cooker

Photo lineup of ingredients

Ingredients:

Ready to go into the rice cooker

1. Packaged Jambalaya rice with spices 
2. Frozen uncooked shrimp
3. Andouille sausage 
4. Chicken broth
5. Cherry tomatoes or frozen sliced sweet peppers

Directions:

You'll need an electronic ("micon") rice cooker

1. Measure one rice cooker cup rice into the rice cooker bowl
2. Add chicken broth to the one-cup line of the rice cooker bowl
3. Use cooking shears to snip 1/2 to 1 Andouille sausage into bowl
4. Put 1-2 handfuls of cherry tomatoes or sweet peppers into bowl
5. Top with 5 or 6 frozen shrimp
6. Cook on white rice setting. It'll take about 1 hour.