In honor of Mardi Gras, I made a gumbo the other night. I was looking for something fairly easy and did it in the crockpot. I don't have pictures, but it was pretty darn good. I combined a couple recipes, below is what I did.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
· 1/3 cup flour
· 1/3 cup cooking oil
· 3 cups chicken broth
· 1 28 oz can crushed tomato
· 12 to 16 ounces smoked sausage, sliced about 1/2" thick
· 2 Lbs chopped cooked chicken
· 1 large bag frozen sliced okra
· 1 cup chopped onion
· 1 chopped green pepper
· 1/2 cup chopped celery
· 4 cloves garlic, minced
· salt, to taste
· 1/2 teaspoon pepper
· 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
· 2 Bay Leaves
· Splash of hot sauce (to taste)
· boiled white/brown rice
Preparation:
For roux, in a heavy 2-quart saucepan stir together flour and oil until smooth. Cook over medium-high heat for 4 minutes, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to medium. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for about 15 minutes more or until roux is dark reddish brown. Let roux cool.
Once roux is cool, mix all ingredients (except rice) in the crockpot. Cook on low about 8 hours. Serve gumbo over rice.
NOTE: I boiled chicken breasts in salt, pepper and old bay - then used some of the water with
the broth.
VERDICT: Not too bad....was fairly easy and tasted pretty good. It must have been decent, there were no leftovers. (About 8-10 people ate it)
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