Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is a recipe for a classic, dark brown, shrimp gumbo in true Louisiana Cajun country fashion. Browning the chicken pieces in the oil used for the roux adds flavor to the dish. I use the cooked chicken for chicken salad.
Gumbo is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Gumbo is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have gumbo using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Gumbo:
- Get 1 box Zatarain's gumbo mix with rice
- Take 6 cups Water
- Prepare 1 cup Chicken broth
- Take 2 Diced potatoes
- Make ready 1 tsp Parsley flakes
- Make ready 2 bags small, tail-off peeled shrimp (100-150 in each bag)
- Get 2 cups chicken breast
- Make ready 1 1/2 Polish sausage
- Take 2 cups crab meat
- Make ready 2 cups frozen okra
- Make ready 1 Bay Leaf
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Red crushed peppers
- Get 5 Hardboiled eggs (Optional)
- Get Seafood seasoning
Reduce heat to medium-low, and add the butter to the Dutch oven. Once melted, sprinkle in the toasted flour, and stir until combined. Cajun gumbo is the tomato-free version of this legendary Louisiana stew, though there are otherwise very few rules that govern what goes into the pot. In this recipe, we use the classic combo of chicken and andouille sausage, but feel free to change it up with other proteins.
Instructions to make Gumbo:
- Add 6 cups of water, 1 cup of chicken broth, eggs, and gumbo mix into a big pot (under low heat)
- After it starts to boil add parsley flakes and bay leaf
- Make sure to stir frequently to keep your food from sticking
- Rinse shrimp in cold water for about 5 minutes then sprinkle with seafood seasoning
- Add potatoes, crab meat, polish sausage, shrimp, chicken breast, and frozen okra then stir
- Add red crushed peppers
- Place a lid on the pot. Let it cook for about 30 minutes or until rice is done
- Enjoy :-)
Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken until browned on both sides and remove. In a large, deep skillet over medium-low heat, melt butter, then add flour. Food writer, historian, and BBQ scholar Rien Fertel sits down with Cajun cooking king Isaac Toups and the legend herself Leah Chase of Dooky Chase in New Orleans for a master class in gumbo making.
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