Simple Way to Prepare Award-winning Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
by Jeffery Sanders
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken and sausage gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken and sausage gumbo using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo:
Prepare 500 g smoked sausage (andouille, or kielbasa from the Polish shop works well)
Make ready 4 bone in, skin on chicken thighs
Get Vegetable oil
Make ready 3/4 cup flour
Make ready 2 medium brown onions, diced
Take 2 medium green bell peppers, diced
Get 5 ribs of celery, diced
Take 2 litres water
Prepare 4 cloves garlic minced
Take 3 bay leaves
Get Glug of Worcester sauce
Make ready 2 teaspoons Creole seasoning (see recipe below)
Make ready 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Take Pinch smoked bittersweet paprika
Make ready Bunch spring onions
Get Tabasco
Get Hot basmati rice
Prepare Cajun seasoning
Take 3/4 tsp paprika
Take 1/4 tsp dried oregano
Make ready 1/4 tsp dried thyme
Prepare 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Get 1/4 tsp garlic powder
Take 1/4 tsp onion powder
Make ready 1/4 tsp black pepper
Make ready 1/4 tsp white pepper
Steps to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo:
Cook sausage in a cast iron pot over medium heat, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes or until browned. Drain on kitchen roll, reserving drippings in pan. Set sausage aside.
Brown chicken in drippings in the same pan over medium heat for 5 minutes or so. Remove to kitchen roll, reserving drippings in the pan. Set chicken aside.
Add enough oil to drippings in same pan to measure 1/2 cup. Add flour, and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, 20 to 30 minutes, or until roux is chocolate coloured. Be careful not to burn it! Starting again is heartbreaking 😫
Stir in onion, pepper, and celery; cook, stirring often, 10 minutes or until tender. Stick your head in at this point for the best smell ever!
Gradually add 2 litres hot water. The mixtures seizes up at first because of the roux but will continue to loosen. Once all the water has been added, bring the mixture to a boil. Add chicken, garlic, bay leaves, Worcester, Creole seasoning, thyme and paprika.
Reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally for an hour. Remove chicken and let it cool.
Add sausage back in and cook for a further 30 minutes.
Stir in most of the sliced green onions and cook for a further 20 minutes. Meanwhile, shred the chicken off the bone and add back in the the gumbo with 5 minutes to go.
Discard the bay leaves. Serve with rice, remaining green onions and a few good glugs of Tabasco on top.
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