Dayafterthanksgivingturkeyandsausagegumbo Recipes

MONDAY TO FRIDAY TURKEY GUMBO

Steps:

• Over high heat olive oil in a large saucepan. Add scallions, onion, bell pepper and celery. Reduce heat to medium and stir the vegetables around until tender, about 3 minutes. Add garlic, cayenne and thyme and saute for a few seconds. Add broth, bring liquid to a boil, then add beans, spinach and corn. Cover and simmer gently for 20 minutes to bring flavors together.
• Stir turkey and parsley into stew and simmer, uncovered just until turkey is cooked through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve over boiled rice.

TURKEY ANDOUILLE GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large soup pot slowly heat oil and flour together over low heat, stirring constantly, until it becomes a nutty brown color and is very fragrant; be careful not to burn. Add onions, pepper and celery and cook, stirring, 4 minutes. Add garlic and andouille and cook 5 minutes, until some fat releases from sausage. Add stock, bay leaf, 2 teaspoons salt, cayenne and Creole spice to taste. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add turkey and simmer 30 minutes more. Adjust seasonings and serve with hot steamed rice and a generous sprinkle of green onions.

TURKEY GUMBO RECIPE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Put the bacon in a large skillet and place the skillet over medium heat. Cook until the bacon has rendered its fat. With a slotted spoon, remove the bacon pieces to paper towels to drain. You should have about 1/4 to 1/3 cup of drippings left in the pan. Refrigerate the crumbled bacon to use as a garnish or save it for another use.
• Remove 2 tablespoons of oil from the 3/4 cup and set it aside. Add the remaining oil-about 2/3 cup-to the bacon drippings. Add the flour to the bacon drippings and oil mixture and cook over medium heat, constantly stirring, for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until the roux is the color of milk chocolate. Remove the roux from the heat and set it aside.
• Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the smoked sausage and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Add the onions, celery, green and red bell pepper, and the white and light green parts of the green onions to the sausage; continue to cook for about 4 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute longer.
• To the vegetables and sausage, add the reserved roux; stir to combine.
• Gradually add 2 cups the chicken stock to the pot a little at a time, stirring constantly. Add the chopped turkey, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves, salt, Cajun seasoning, thyme, and black pepper. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. If too thick, add more stock in small amounts.
• Stir the parsley and chopped green onions (dark green parts) into the gumbo and serve it over hot steamed rice.
• Garnish the turkey gumbo with extra green onions, parsley, and the crumbled cooked bacon, if desired.

JUICY THANKSGIVING TURKEY

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a turkey roaster with long sheets of aluminum foil that will be long enough to wrap over the turkey.
• Stir together the parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, lemon pepper, and salt in a small bowl. Rub the herb mixture into the cavity of the turkey, then stuff with the celery, orange, onion, and carrot. Truss if desired, and place the turkey into the roasting pan. Pour the chicken broth and champagne over the turkey, making sure to get some champagne in the cavity. Bring the aluminum foil over the top of the turkey, and seal. Try to keep the foil from touching the skin of the turkey breast or legs.
• Bake the turkey in the preheated oven for 2 1/2 to 3 hours until no longer pink at the bone and the juices run clear. Uncover the turkey, and continue baking until the skin turns golden brown, 30 minutes to 1 hour longer. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone should read 180 degrees F (82 degrees C). Remove the turkey from the oven, cover with a doubled sheet of aluminum foil, and allow to rest in a warm area 10 to 15 minutes before slicing.

EASY SAUSAGE AND SHRIMP GUMBO

Steps:

• Cook and stir oil and flour in a skillet over medium heat until mixture is thick and the color of peanut butter, about 20 minutes.
• Stir onion, green bell pepper, and celery into flour mixture; cook and stir until softened, about 5 minutes. Add sausage; cook and stir until browned, about 5 minutes. Add Cajun seasoning, garlic, and black pepper; cook and stir until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
• Pour chicken stock over vegetable-sausage mixture; reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes. Add shrimp and cook until shrimp are pink and cooked through, about 10 minutes.

WILD TURKEY, SAUSAGE AND SHRIMP GUMBO

Steps:

• Add oil to skillet, heat over medium heat slowly mixing in the flour to make a roux. Keep cooking and stirring until it is a dark golden brown. Be patient it can take awhile, if you burn it start over.
• Keeping the pan on medium heat stir in the onion, bell pepper, garlic, carrots, celery and black pepper. Cook for about 3 minutes or just until the vegetables start to turn tender.
• Transfer to a large soup kettle, use medium heat, gradually stir in the broth, tomatoes, salt, worcstershire sauce, hot pepper sauce, basil, thyme, cumin, bay leaf, corn, jalapenos and okra.
• Bring to a boil then add the turkey and sausage, when it reurns to a boil, reduce to heat to a simmer.
• Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes.
• Add the shrimp during the last 5 minutes.
• Serve over hot cooked rice (basmati).

CHICKEN, TURKEY, AND SMOKED SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• Combine the oil and flour in a large cast-iron Dutch oven over medium heat.
• Stirring slowly and constantly for 20 to 25 minutes, make a dark brown roux.
• Add the onions, garlic, celery, carrots and bell peppers and continue to stir for 4 to 5 minutes, or until wilted.
• Add the sausage, salt, cayenne, and bay leaves.
• Continue to stir for 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add the chicken broth or water.
• Stir until the roux mixture and water are well combined.
• Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low.
• Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 1 hour.
• Season the chicken and turkey with old bay and add to the pot.
• Simmer for 1 hour.
• Add okra simmer 45 minutes.
• Add shrimp simmer another 5 to 8 minutes don`t overcook the shrimp!
• Skim off any fat that rises to the surface.
• Remove from the heat.
• Stir in the parsley, green onions.
• Remove the bay leaves and serve with lots of white rice.
• Add extra seasoning if needed or hot sauce for heat to your liking!
• If you like, sprinkle a small amount of gumbo filé in your individual serving for a little more flavor.

SEAFOOD AND TURKEY-SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• Sprinkle flour over bottom of heavy large pot. Stir flour constantly over medium-low heat until flour turns golden brown (do not allow to burn), about 15 minutes. Pour browned flour into bowl.
• Heat oil in same pot over medium heat. Add onion and bell pepper and sauté until tender, about 7 minutes. Add garlic, thyme and bay leaf; stir 1 minute. Add sausages and sauté until brown, breaking up with back of spoon, about 5 minutes, then add browned flour. Add tomatoes with juices, broth and Creole seasoning. Bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes to blend flavors, stirring frequently.
• Add shrimp and catfish to pot and simmer just until seafood is opaque in center, about 5 minutes. Discard bay leaf. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

BISCUITS WITH TURKEY SAUSAGE GRAVY

Steps:

• Bake biscuits according to package directions. Meanwhile, crumble sausage into a large saucepan; cook over medium heat until no longer pink. Drain and keep warm. , In the same saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the flour, mustard, salt and pepper until smooth. Gradually add milk and Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. , Stir in sausage; heat through. Place two biscuits on each serving plate; top with gravy. ,

DAY-AFTER-THANKSGIVING TURKEY AND SAUSAGE GUMBO

Steps:

• To make the roux, in a large Dutch oven over medium heat, combine the oil and flour. Cook, stirring constantly until becomes a reddish-brown color, approximately for 30 to 40 minutes. Be careful not to burn.
• Add to the roux the onions, bell pepper and celery, stirring, about 5 minutes; add broth. Bring to a boil, stirring to incorporate roux, then reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour. Add salt, pepper and cayenne. Add turkey and sausage then simmer an additional 30 minutes. Should the gumbo become too thick, thin with additional broth or water. Skim from the top any fat that surfaces.
• Add the green onions and the parsley. Serve over hot rice.