Chicken Gumbo With Homemade Stock Recipes

CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, add all ingredients.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until all vegetables and rice are tender.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.

CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• In several large stock pots, saute celery, green peppers and onions in butter until tender. Add the next seven ingredients; bring to a boil. Stir in rice. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender. , Stir in the chicken, ham, okra and shrimp if desired. Simmer for 8-10 minutes or until shrimp turn pink and okra is tender. Discard bay leaves.

CHICKEN GUMBO WITH HOMEMADE STOCK

Steps:

• The stock ingredients are everything from 2 tbsp chicken bouillon and above. The gumbo ingredients is browned flour and below.
• Stock Directions.
• Heat a large stock pot over medium high heat for a few minutes.
• Rinse chicken and pat dry. Liberally sprinkle the chicken with salt, pepper and creole seasoning.
• Add the olive oil to the pot and brown the chicken in batches. Set aside for later.
• With the chicken removed, add all the veggies but the garlic. Saute for a few minutes then add the garlic and bay leaves. Saute one more minute.
• Put the chicken back into the pot. Add the water. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce to a simmer. Simmer for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• Remove the stock from the heat. Remove chicken to a platter to cool. Strain stock into another pot to remove veggies. Defat if desired.
• Gumbo Directions.
• Heat a large steel pan over medium high heat for a few minutes. Add the flour. Stir constantly with a whisk so the flour does not burn. If it smokes too much, reduce heat.
• When the flour is the color of say chocolate milk powder, remove from heat and continue stirring as it will continue to brown in the hot pan. Keep stirring off the heat until the smoking has subsided.
• Heat a large nonstick stock pot over high heat for 4 minutes.
• Add all the onion, bell pepper and celery, creole seasoning and ¼ cup stock. Stir and cook until the stock is almost gone.
• Stir in another ¼ cup stock. Stir and cook until the stock is almost gone.
• Add the garlic. Cook and stir one more minute.
• Add 10 ounces of stock and the browned flour. Stir until a paste forms. Let this sit for 30 seconds or so. Stir and let it sit again for a little bit.
• Add the rest of the stock, chicken and sausage. Stir well to incorporate the flour.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add the gumbo filé powder. Reduce to a simmer. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add salt and pepper to taste. Chile powder is optional.

FILE CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• To make chicken stock, place all ingredients into 8-quart stockpot. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, skimming impurities off the top. Remove chicken pieces. Allow chicken to cool, remove meat from bones, and then return bones to stock. Reserve chicken meat for the gumbo. Continue to simmer stock for additional 2 1/2 hours.
• To make gumbo, begin by heating oil in a large pot (preferably an enameled cast iron or other heavy-bottomed pot) and cooking garlic, onions, peppers, and celery until soft and translucent. Add sausage, tomatoes, tomato paste, and stock. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer and add okra and reserved cooked chicken meat. Season with hot pepper sauce, cayenne, salt, pepper, and file. Simmer for 1 hour until flavors meld together. Stir in chopped parsley. Serve over hot rice and garnish with julienned scallions.

CLASSIC CHICKEN GUMBO RECIPE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Peel and chop the onions .
• Cut the bell pepper in half lengthwise; remove the seeds and stem. Cut the pepper into 1/4-inch dice.
• Chop the celery. Set the vegetables aside.
• For the roux , melt the shortening in a large Dutch oven over low heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring, until medium brown-about 10 to 15 minutes. Stir the roux constantly to avoid burning. If it burns, you will have to start over.
• Add the chopped vegetables to the roux, adjust the heat to medium-low to medium, and continue to cook, constantly stirring, until the onion is translucent.
• Slowly add the chicken stock and bring it to a boil, stirring constantly.
• Add the diced tomatoes, okra, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano, cayenne, and bay leaf; bring to a boil.
• Reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cook the rice following the package directions. Set aside and keep warm.
• Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.
• Add the chicken to the soup and cook, covered, for 6 to 8 minutes longer, or until the chicken is thoroughly cooked. Taste the soup and adjust the seasonings with more salt and pepper, as needed.
• To serve, scoop a mound of rice into the center of each of the four large, shallow bowls. Ladle the soup around the rice. Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley and/or green onion tops, if desired.

CHICKEN GUMBO WOW

Steps:

• Heat a pan over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and garlic; saute until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add shredded chicken and Creole seasoning. Mix thoroughly. Add tomatoes, chicken broth, corn, and sausage. Reduce heat and simmer until flavors come together, about 20 minutes.

SEAFOOD GUMBO STOCK

Steps:

• Bake shrimp shells at 375 degrees F (195 degrees C) until dried and starting to brown on edges.
• In an 8-quart pot, combine water, carrots, onions, celery, bay leaves, garlic, parsley, cloves, pepper, basil, thyme and shrimp shells. Bring slowly to a boil.
• Reduce heat, and cook 5 to 7 hours. Replace water as needed, 2 or 3 times, by pouring more water down the inside of the pot.
• Remove stock from heat, and strain. Press all liquid from the shells and vegetables, then discard them. Return liquid to heat, and reduce to 2 to 3 quarts, or to taste.

GROUND CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• Cook rice according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven or soup kettle, cook the chicken, celery, green pepper and onion in oil over medium heat for 8 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink; drain. , Stir in the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until heated through. Serve over rice.

CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large pan over a medium high heat. Add the chicken and cook in batches for about 5 mins to brown all over. Remove the chicken with a slotted spoon and set aside.
• Add the onion, green pepper and celery to the pan, put on the lid and cook for 5 mins, stirring occasionally until softened a little. Stir in the garlic, spices, thyme and bay leaf and cook for 1 min until fragrant. Return the chicken and any juices to the pan with the flour, stirring to coat everything. Pour in the tomatoes and stock, and bring to the boil, cook for 5 mins, then add the okra and half the sage. Turn down to a simmer, put on the lid and cook for 10 mins. Then season and serve, scattering the rest of the sage over.