Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe page.it is Matthew Wheeler. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, brad's chicken and sausage gumbo. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have brad's chicken and sausage gumbo using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:
- Make ready 3 lbs chicken thighs with bone and skin
- Take Seasoned flour to dredge chicken
- Take 1 lg yellow onion, chopped
- Get 1 red & 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- Take 6 celery stalks, chopped
- Make ready 8-10 roma tomatoes, chopped
- Get 10 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- Take 1 1/2 cups cream sherry
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups shortening
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 10-12 cups water
- Make ready 1/3 cup granulated chicken bouillon
- Make ready 1 tbs dried oregano
- Get 1 tbs smoked paprika
- Get 1/2 tbs white pepper
- Get Cajun seasoning to taste. I like it spicy so I used a fair bit
- Prepare 1 pkg frozen okra
- Get 1 1/2-2 lbs andouille sausage, sliced 1/2 inch thick
- Get 4-6 cups prepared white rice
- Prepare Gumbo filé
Instructions to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:
- 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.
- In the same pan, reserve 2 tbs of the chicken grease. Add onions, peppers, and celery. Fry on medium heat until onions are translucent.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Adjust seasonings to taste. Add okra and sausage. Simmer for another 20 minutes.
- 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.
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