Steps to Make Award-winning Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
by Jesse Swanson
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken and sausage gumbo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chicken and sausage gumbo using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Sausage Gumbo:
Take smoked sausage (andouille, or kielbasa from the Polish shop works well)
Prepare bone in, skin on chicken thighs
Take Vegetable oil
Prepare flour
Make ready medium brown onions, diced
Prepare medium green bell peppers, diced
Make ready ribs of celery, diced
Get water
Take garlic minced
Prepare bay leaves
Get Glug of Worcester sauce
Prepare Creole seasoning (see recipe below)
Make ready dried thyme
Prepare smoked bittersweet paprika
Get spring onions
Prepare Tabasco
Take Hot basmati rice
Get Cajun seasoning
Take paprika
Make ready dried oregano
Prepare dried thyme
Make ready cayenne pepper
Get garlic powder
Prepare onion powder
Prepare black pepper
Prepare white pepper
Instructions 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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