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Recipe: Perfect Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo

Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo.

You can cook Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo

  1. You need of personal comments.
  2. You need 1 of **** every southern family has a recipe for gumbo. This is just ours. Any kind of meat can be used in it but we generally just do chicken, but my brothers friends wanted shrimp in it.!!!.
  3. You need 1 of **** GUMBO is African for okra .... so true gumbo is an okra stew..
  4. You need of ROUX.
  5. Prepare 1/4 cup of veggie oil or bacon drippings.
  6. It's 3 tbsp of flour.
  7. Prepare of BROTH.
  8. Prepare 2 of chicken thigh (because of fat content).
  9. It's 2 tsp of salt.
  10. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
  11. You need 1/2 large of onion.
  12. You need 1 clove of garlic (1tsp minced).
  13. It's 10 cup of water.
  14. It's 2 of stalks celery minced.
  15. You need of Gumbo ingredients.
  16. It's 15 medium of shrimp (raw deviened, tail removed).
  17. Prepare 1 large of can diced or crushed tomatoes.
  18. Prepare 1 can of rotel (tomatoes with green chilis).. drain the liquid and use the tomatoes and chilis.... the liquid holds a lot of heat..... w/o liquid is mild.
  19. Prepare 1 clove of garlic (1 tsp minced).
  20. You need 1/2 large of onion.
  21. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of gumbo file.
  22. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of cooked rice (we add ours to the gumbo, but some people serve it on the side).
  23. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of frozen sliced okra.

Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo step by step

  1. mince the onion .... put 1/2 the onion, chicken, celery, salt, pepper, garlic powder in 10 cups of water. boil for about 40 minutes... chicken should be fall apart tender. if u use a carton of broth add onion, pepper, garlic powder to a full carton of broth and boil.
  2. remove chicken and set aside..
  3. make Roux with flour and oil or Bacon drippings. add garlic and onion and stir to release oil into drippings..
  4. add flour Roux mixture to pot of broth .... step back because it make steam up...
  5. while broth and Roux are cooking turn down to medium. and debone the chicken (remove skin and bone and discard..
  6. add both cans of tomatoes, okra, and let cook on Med for about 25 minutes. add chicken, shrimp, and gumbo file..
  7. let cook until shrimp is pink... stir well..
  8. ENJOY! !!.