Easiest Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
by Rosa Watkins
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken and sausage gumbo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken and sausage gumbo using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo:
Get 500 g smoked sausage (andouille, or kielbasa from the Polish shop works well)
Get 4 bone in, skin on chicken thighs
Get Vegetable oil
Get 3/4 cup flour
Prepare 2 medium brown onions, diced
Get 2 medium green bell peppers, diced
Get 5 ribs of celery, diced
Take 2 litres water
Get 4 cloves garlic minced
Prepare 3 bay leaves
Get Glug of Worcester sauce
Prepare 2 teaspoons Creole seasoning (see recipe below)
Make ready 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
Make ready Pinch smoked bittersweet paprika
Make ready Bunch spring onions
Prepare Tabasco
Make ready Hot basmati rice
Take Cajun seasoning
Make ready 3/4 tsp paprika
Get 1/4 tsp dried oregano
Take 1/4 tsp dried thyme
Prepare 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Prepare 1/4 tsp garlic powder
Take 1/4 tsp onion powder
Prepare 1/4 tsp black pepper
Prepare 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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