Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

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Stir in the smoked sausage and tasso. Return the mixture to a boil. Combine the oil and flour in a large cast iron or enameled cast iron Dutch oven over medium heat. Season with salt, pepper, and Creole seasoning; blend thoroughly.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
  1. Take 500 g smoked sausage (andouille, or kielbasa from the Polish shop works well)
  2. Take 4 bone in, skin on chicken thighs
  3. Take Vegetable oil
  4. Prepare 3/4 cup flour
  5. Prepare 2 medium brown onions, diced
  6. Make ready 2 medium green bell peppers, diced
  7. Prepare 5 ribs of celery, diced
  8. Take 2 litres water
  9. Prepare 4 cloves garlic minced
  10. Prepare 3 bay leaves
  11. Take Glug of Worcester sauce
  12. Take 2 teaspoons Creole seasoning (see recipe below)
  13. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
  14. Get Pinch smoked bittersweet paprika
  15. Take Bunch spring onions
  16. Get Tabasco
  17. Prepare Hot basmati rice
  18. Prepare Cajun seasoning
  19. Make ready 3/4 tsp paprika
  20. Make ready 1/4 tsp dried oregano
  21. Get 1/4 tsp dried thyme
  22. Get 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
  23. Take 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  24. Prepare 1/4 tsp onion powder
  25. Take 1/4 tsp black pepper
  26. Get 1/4 tsp white pepper

Drain on paper towels, reserving drippings in Dutch oven. Try this traditional chicken and sausage gumbo dish. Gumbo represents the cultural blending that makes the Bayou State so unique. With it's African origins, gumbo is the perfect dish to represent the cultural melting pot that is Louisiana.

Instructions to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 😫
  4. 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!
  5. 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.
  6. Reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally for an hour. Remove chicken and let it cool.
  7. Add sausage back in and cook for a further 30 minutes.
  8. 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.
  9. Discard the bay leaves. Serve with rice, remaining green onions and a few good glugs of Tabasco on top.

Gumbo represents the cultural blending that makes the Bayou State so unique. With it's African origins, gumbo is the perfect dish to represent the cultural melting pot that is Louisiana. When the first cool temperatures of Fall roll in, locals declare "it's gumbo weather." Although most popular on Fat Tuesday, chicken and sausage gumbo is a wonderful comfort meal any time of the year. Chicken and sausage gumbo served with rice. I fell in love with gumbo while visiting New Orleans a few years back and have tried to replicate that hearty taste ever since.

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