Chicken Gumbo with Andouille Sausage

1 Cook the bacon: Cook the diced bacon until crunchy in a big stew pot set over medium warm. Remove the bacon and also alloted; you’ll include it back in when you offer your gumbo.

2 Brown the hen in the bacon fat: Once the bacon is cooked, set the chicken upper legs skin side down in the bacon fat to crisp. Salt the meat side, which will be dealing with up in the pot.

Cook the chicken, without moving, for a minimum of 4-5 mins before attempting to turn the chicken over. Brown the opposite side of the hen thighs. By the way, you begin with skin side to provide some fat, which you will certainly need for the roux.

3 Brown the sausages: Remove the browned poultry thighs as well as reserved. Brown the sausages in the fat, get rid of and also reserve.

4 Make the roux: If you desire, determine how much fat is in the pot; it ought to be about 1/2 cup. Or, do what I add as well as do 1/2 cup peanut oil to the pot. Allow this warm up a min or two, after that stir in 1 mug flour. Stir this practically continuously for the very first couple of mins, then every couple minutes or so thereafter. Reduced the warmth to medium-low and also cook this roux until it turns dark. Exactly how dark? I like my roux the shade of coffee with simply a little bit of cream.

You can go all the way to delicious chocolate brown, yet be careful! If you shed your roux you will need to start over as well as make it again. This entire process can take 30 mins.

5 Heat hen stock: While you are stirring and also preparing the roux, bring the poultry stock and also water to a boil in a different pot. 6 Add onion, bell pepper, celery to roux, add garlic, after that tomato paste: Add to the roux the onion, green

pepper and celery and also blend well. Let this chef, mixing often, for about 5 mins. Add the garlic, stir once more and prepare for an additional 2 mins. Mix in the tomato paste. 7 Ladle hot stock into the gumbo, mix insome spice: Using a huge ladle, include the warm chicken supply to the gumbo. It will sear and also confiscate up as the roux takes in the fluid. Keep adding more supply, mixing at all times and also

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You might not require all 2 quarts, but include sufficient to make the gumbo a little a lot more watery than you want it to be at the end— remember you are mosting likely to cook this down for numerous hours.

Mix in half the Cajun spice mix, taste the gumbo, and also add more if you desire. 8 Lower the warm, add the chicken, simmer: Lower the warm to medium-low and also add back the hen thighs. Currently you can either consume the skin while it’s still crunchy, or throw it right into the gumbo as well as chop it great later. I have a tendency to do half-and-half.

Simmer this carefully, mixing periodically, till the meat wishes to fall off the bones of the hen, concerning 90 minutes. Get rid of the chicken and let it cool down a little bit.

9 Add sausage, okra, chicken meat: While the chicken is cooling down, cut the andouille sausage into thick discs as well as drop them in the gumbo. Include the okra. Choose the hen meat from the bones as well as chop it about. Include it back to the gumbo.

At this point you can cook the gumbo for another hour, or approximately a number of more hours, depending upon how prepared down you want the last stew to be.

10 Add eco-friendly onions, parsley, bacon to offer: When you prepare to eat, add the eco-friendly onions, parsley as well as bacon as well as stir well. Offer over rice, or with excellent French bread.

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