Okragumbowithchickenandouillesausage Recipes

MEAN CHEF CHICKEN, ANDOUILLE, HAM AND OKRA GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large pot or Dutch oven, heat the oil over medium heat and stir in the flour, sprinkling a little at a time and whisking inches Whisk slowly and constantly for 20 to 25 minutes to make a dark brown roux, the color of chocolate.
• If you get black specks in your roux it is burned and you will have to start over.
• Add the onions, celery, okra and bell peppers and continue to stir for 4 to 5 minutes, or until wilted.
• The mixture will be pasty and fairly dry.
• Add the sausage, ham, salt, cayenne, pepper, and bay leaves and stir well.
• Cook, stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the stock or broth and stir well to combine with the roux mixture.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low.
• Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour.
• Add the chicken and cook just until the chicken is heated through, about 5 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley, Pickapeppa Sauce and green onions.
• Ladle into deep soup bowls over rice.
• Serve with hot sauce, if desired.

OKRA GUMBO WITH CHICKEN & ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix your onion, celery, and bell pepper together: The Holy Trinity.
• Heat the oil in a cast iron dutch oven over medium heat, whisk in the flour to make a milk chocolate colored Roux.
• Add the Andouille, 1 Tbsp of Seasoning, and 3/4 of the Holy Trinity, cook, stirring often, for about ten minutes or until the vegetables soften, add the cold stock, remaining seasoning, okra, remaining trinity, and Garlic.
• Bring to a boil then bring this down to a simmer, add the thigh meat and let it go for at least 2 hours, stirring occasionally. About 10-15 minutes before you're ready to serve add the Worcestershire, hot sauce, and 1/2 of the Green Onions.
• Serve with Creole Boiled Rice, crusty French bread.
• Garnish with green onions, and the parsley.

GUMBO WITH SHRIMP, CRAB & ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE WITH OKRA

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy pot and add the flour.
• Cook the roux, stirring constantly.
• Just as the roux reaches light brown color, add the vegetables and stir.
• When the vegetables are tender, add the stock, spices, cooked andouille sausage, salt, and peppers.
• Stir until the roux is dissolved, and simmer over low heat for one hour.
• Add the shrimp about 5 minutes before serving, then add the crabmeat by the handful, then cook over low heat just until the shrimp turn pink and the crabmeat is warmed through.
• remove bay leaves.
• Serve in large soup or gumbo bowls over about 1/2 cup of cooked rice per serving.

SMARTY PANTS = CHICKEN, SAUSAGE, OKRA GUMBO & RICE

Steps:

• -----Gumbo--------.
• Follow recipe on gumbo base container to mix base.
• Using water is good, but some chicken broth is better.
• Bring base to a low boil.
• This is the critical step= stir well because the base wants to stick to the bottom of the pot, while it is being fully dissolved.
• Add meat, and bring to a low boil again, lower fire and simmer for thirty minutes, stirring occasionally while scraping bottom of pot.
• stir in okra, and bring back to a low boil for 2-3 minutes, just enough to heat the okra, then serve with cooked long grain white rice.
• -----------Boiled long grain regular white rice recipe----------.
• Add salt to water and bring water to boil.
• Add rice and stir well.
• The moment you add the rice to the water, start timing for 13 minutes.
• stir occasionally during cooking process, while scraping bottom of pot.
• After 13 minutes, stir well, then drain rice using calendar, then run some hot faucet water over the rice in the calendar.
• Serve gumbo with rice added.

ONE GREAT GUMBO WITH CHICKEN AND ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat a large heavy bottomed pot over medium high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil, 1 turn of the pan, and 1 pound of the diced chicken. Season with salt and pepper and a sprinkle of poultry seasoning. Brown on all sides, about 2 or 3 minutes. Chop your veggies while it's working. Add half the andouille to the pan and cook another 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer chicken and sausage to a dish and repeat with remaining chicken and sausage, remembering to season the diced chicken as you go. Return pan to heat and add butter. When the butter melts, add chopped celery, peppers, onion and bay. Season with salt, pepper and hot sauce. Cook 3 to 5 minutes to begin to soften veggies. Add flour and cook for 2 minutes. Slowly stir in the broth and bring liquid up to a boil. Add okra, chicken and sausage to the boiling broth, then stir in your tomatoes and half of your fresh thyme. Bring back up to a bubble, reduce to simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes to combine flavors and adjust your seasonings. Serve gumbo with chopped thyme and scallions to garnish. Scoop cooked white rice into the center of bowlfuls of gumbo using an ice cream scoop. Enjoy!