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Chicken Gumbo.

You can cook Chicken Gumbo using 24 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Gumbo

  1. Prepare 4 lb of boneless chicken thigh/breast.
  2. You need 1 lb of andouille smoked sausage.
  3. Prepare 4 tbs of olive oil.
  4. Prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil (for Roux).
  5. You need 1 cup of flour (for Roux).
  6. You need of I large onion.
  7. You need 1 stalk of green onion.
  8. Prepare 1 of bell pepper.
  9. It's 3 stalks of celery.
  10. You need 1 of garlic minced.
  11. It's 3 of bay leaves.
  12. Prepare To taste of Cajun seasoning.
  13. Prepare To taste of salt free seasoning.
  14. It's To taste of onion powder.
  15. You need To taste of garlic powder.
  16. Prepare To taste of cayenne pepper.
  17. You need To taste of basil.
  18. You need To taste of paprika.
  19. It's To taste of thyme.
  20. It's To taste of oregano.
  21. Prepare To taste of gumbo file.
  22. You need 1 box of chicken broth no salt.
  23. Prepare of Boil chicken in garlic onion celery chicken broth and water.
  24. It's 4 cups of cooked rice.

Chicken Gumbo step by step

  1. In a large pot on medium heat add chicken, flavor meat with chicken broth, minced garlic, chopped onions and chopped celery and bay leaves. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 1 hour so you can pull meat apart with a fork. Turn heat under pot off. Remove chicken from pot, pull chicken apart into bit size pieces, add back into your chicken stock pot and set heat the medium high..
  2. Slice sausage, add to stock pot chop up all the veggies add to pot along with seasonings. Bring to boil. Once boiling reduce heat. Simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally..
  3. To make roux, in large skillet add oil on medium high heat. Heat oil until you see a ripple or waves. This tells you the oil is ready for the flour. Slowly add flour as you whisk the ingredients together. Add some Cajun seasoning to flavor roux. Constantly stirring until roux is the color of a dark kidney bean. Once you reach this darkness turn heat off. Slowly stir into gumbo pot. Stir occasionally for 1 hour more..
  4. Serve over cooked rice.