15 Bean And Chicken Gumbo
From dmajor 8 years ago
- 4 hours to make
- Serves 12
Using 15 bean or other bean soup mix, I created an amazingly light and refreshing gumbo! Serve with cooked rice and some French bread and ooooweeee that's some good stuff!!!
Ingredients
- 1 bag 15 bean soup mix(you can use and bean soup mix) shopping list
- 1 cup each: chopped onion, chopped celery, chopped bell pepper shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic minced shopping list
- 6 cups chicken broth shopping list
- 3 to 4 cups water(or broth) shopping list
- 1/2 pound smoked sausage, sliced shopping list
- 2 chicken breast, cubed shopping list
- 1/4 cup sliced green onions shopping list
- 2-3 tablespoons liquid smoke shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon Zatarains Garlic and Herb seasoning shopping list
- 3 tablespoons butter shopping list
- 1 cup roux(dark) you can make your own using equal amounts flour and oil and cook stirring often until dark brown, use a jarred roux such as Richards or use a powder roux mixed with water( use about 6 tablespoons to 1 cup water) shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- frozen okra(use about 1/2 bag} shopping list
- parsley if desired shopping list
- cooked rice shopping list
How to make it
- In a colander, rinse and sort through the beans.
- Pour rinsed beans into a large pot and cover with of water.
- Bring to a boil and boil 2-3 minutes.
- Remove from heat, cover and allow to soak no less than 4 hours(overnight is best).
- Discard soaking water and place beans in a bowl
- In a large soup pot brown chicken in butter, remove from pan and set aside.
- Add remaining 2 tablespoons of butter to pot
- Sautee the onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic a few minutes in the butter.
- Scrape the bottom of the pan and add the chicken both and water
- bring to a boil and stir in beans, chicken lower heat to a low medium.
- Cover and cook until beans are tender about 3 hours depending on weather and altitude(I like to cook mine until very tender but cook until you get the beans to the texture you desire.
- Sautee the smoked sausage in a skillet until lightly browned.
- Add this to the pot and stir in spices
- Remove chicken and shred it desired
- Stir in roux, liquid smoke and okra and cook another 15-20 minutes
- A few minutes before serving, stir in sliced green onions and parsley
- serve over hot cooked rice
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