Chicken And Sausage Gumbo With Corn Dumplings Recipes

BAKED CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Stir flour, oil, and butter together to form a paste. Transfer "roux" to the center of a large roasting pan and spread out into a rough rectangle about 1/2-inch thick, leaving enough room around the outside to place the chicken and sausage.
• Lay chicken thighs, skin-side down, and sausage pieces around the roux. Season chicken generously with salt.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes. Remove from oven and scatter onion, celery, and bell pepper evenly over the chicken, sausage, and roux. Briefly stir the roux in the center, then spread it back out. Continue baking for 20 minutes.
• Remove pan from oven; remove chicken and sausage to a plate and reserve until needed. Stir vegetables and roux together in the pan, spread back out into an even layer, and bake for another 20 minutes, or until roux is as browned as you like.
• Mix chicken broth, salt, pepper, thyme, bay leaf, and cayenne in a large bowl or pitcher. Refrigerate cooking liquid until needed.
• Pour the cold cooking liquid mixture into the gumbo and whisk until well combined. Stir in tomatoes and okra. Add the sausage and chicken back in, skin-side up. Continue baking, stirring gently and occasionally, until liquid is thick and chicken is very tender, 30 to 40 minutes more.
• Taste and adjust seasonings as desired. Garnish with green onions.

CHICKEN AND SAUSAGE GUMBO WITH CORN DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In 12-inch nonstick skillet, melt 2 teaspoons butter over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 5 to 6 minutes, turning once, until evenly browned. Pour soup over chicken; heat to boiling. Reduce heat to low; move chicken to one side of skillet.
• In medium bowl, mix cornbread mix, milk, 1 tablespoon butter and egg until well mixed. Drop batter by 8 rounded tablespoonfuls onto hot soup mixture.
• Cover; cook over low heat 18 to 22 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean.