Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo
Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo

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In a bowl, plate rice off to one side. Add gumbo to the bowl, and top with a chicken thigh. Reviews for: Photos of Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have brad's chicken and sausage gumbo using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:
  1. Make ready 3 lbs chicken thighs with bone and skin
  2. Make ready Seasoned flour to dredge chicken
  3. Get 1 lg yellow onion, chopped
  4. Take 1 red & 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
  5. Get 6 celery stalks, chopped
  6. Take 8-10 roma tomatoes, chopped
  7. Make ready 10 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
  8. Make ready 1 1/2 cups cream sherry
  9. Get 1 1/2 cups shortening
  10. Make ready 1 1/2 cups flour
  11. Prepare 10-12 cups water
  12. Make ready 1/3 cup granulated chicken bouillon
  13. Prepare 1 tbs dried oregano
  14. Make ready 1 tbs smoked paprika
  15. Take 1/2 tbs white pepper
  16. Prepare Cajun seasoning to taste. I like it spicy so I used a fair bit
  17. Make ready 1 pkg frozen okra
  18. Get 1 1/2-2 lbs andouille sausage, sliced 1/2 inch thick
  19. Make ready 4-6 cups prepared white rice
  20. Make ready Gumbo filé

Chef John takes gumbo to the oven, baking up a beautiful golden brown roux right alongside the chicken, sausage, and Holy Trinity in this dish. Gumbo doesn't have to be hard! Instead of slowly cooking and stirring a roux for what seems like forever, try this alternative baked method. With ordinary ingredients, the right seasonings, and patience, the results.

Instructions to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:
  1. Place seasoned flour into a lg ziplock bag. Add chicken and seal. Shake well to coat evenly. Heat canola oil in a lg frying pan just under medium heat. Fry chicken covered until golden brown on both sides. Set aside.
  2. In the same pan, reserve 2 tbs of the chicken grease. Add onions, peppers, and celery. Fry on medium heat until onions are translucent.
  3. Meanwhile in a lg Dutch oven, melt shortening on medium heat. Add flour and mix thoroughly. Stir almost constantly until the roux becomes almost a chocolate brown and smells very nutty. This takes a while, but is the base Flavor of the dish. If it starts to smell burnt. Start over.
  4. Add tomatoes and garlic to the onion mixture. Keep frying until about half of the liquid from the onions evaporates. Add sherry. Bring to a simmer until half of that liquid evaporates.
  5. When the roux is done it will be a nice caramel color. Slowly add the onion mixture to it. Continue to stir constantly. Add water and mix thoroughly. Add the fried chicken, bouillon and spices. Bring to a simmer and simmer for an hour uncovered. Stir every 5-10 minutes
  6. Adjust seasonings to taste. Add okra and sausage. Simmer for another 20 minutes.
  7. In a bowl, plate rice off to one side. Add gumbo to the bowl, and top with a chicken thigh. Sprinkle a little gumbo filé on top and serve immediately. Enjoy.

A delicious Cajun-style dish, made by simmering chicken, smoked sausage, onion, green pepper and celery together in a Creole sauce. Put chicken pieces in a bowl. Blend salt, peppers, mustard, cayenne pepper, paprika, granulated garlic and file powder. Rub four teaspoons of the mixture over the chicken. Set rest of spice mixture aside.

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