Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 1 chicken, about 2 lb
- 1 onion, large and chopped
- salt and black pepper
- 16 ounces sausage, smoked link
- 1 fresh tomato, or 16 oz can
- 2 tablespoons shortening or 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 1⁄2 lbs fresh okra
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 3 quarts water
directions
- Cut up chicken, remove skin if you like. Dredge the chicken with flour salt and pepper.
- Fry the chicken until brown.
- Slice up a pound of the link sausage For a hotter sausage, try the Louisiana 'Andouille', if a vailable. After the chicken is browned, place sausage in the same skillet -- use a heavy iron one. Brown the sausage on both sides.
- Save the grease from chicken and sausage. Fry the tomato, onion and okra in about 2 Tbsp shortening or oil, until they become tender.
- Make a roux with 2 tsp oil and 2 tsp flour, stir and brown over a medium-low heat until the roux is as dark as possible without burning it. Do not burn the roux, just make it real dark.
- Place chicken and sausage in the roux, stir a bit. Then place all ingredients into a heavy, deep iron pan, add water and cook about 2 hours.
- Cook slow, add water if needed.
- The okra will thicken the gumbo as it cooks.
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