So I have never had this dish! Most dishes I cook I have tasted a variant of it so I know how it should taste when I make it, but Cajun/Creole/Louisiana food in general is something I’ve never had the pleasure of trying first hand but the spices always look really tasty. Does anyone have a good recipe to share with me, with maybe some notes about how it should taste? I usually don’t cook with meat at home, so meat substitutes would be useful, but I still use chicken stock and enjoy cooking with sausages like andouille and kielbasas. I think my kitchen is pretty well stocked other than the meat bit! I do lack an instant pot, but I’ve got a Dutch oven and a slow cooker and a rice cooker, etc.
An instant pot isn’t useful here. If you cook it in an instant pot, the liquid used to cook the beans won’t thicken up at all. It’s one of those things where the liquid both has to reduce, and the starches etc. in the beans have to be extracted to thicken the remaining liquid. This just takes time. Same with extracting some of the flavors from the sausages, etc.
My personal opinion is to roughly quadruple the amount of the spices/herbs used (except the onion); I find truly authentic recipes to have a little less punch than I prefer.