How to Prepare Tasty Gumbo (southern style)

Gumbo (southern style). It can feature any number of main ingredients, most commonly, shrimp, crab, chicken, duck, and sausage. Our recipe, a chicken-and-sausage version, came from the late Southern Living Food and Travel Editor Dana Adkins Campbell. Even now we still receive frequent requests for reprints of the recipe.

Stir until the bouillon cubes dissolve, and whisk the roux mixture into the boiling water. Some opt for seafood, others for chicken and andouille. For this recipe, we chose to fill the gumbo with heady seafood ingredients such as fresh crabmeat, shrimp, and oysters. You can cook Gumbo (southern style) using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Gumbo (southern style)

1. You need of fat hen.
2. You need of small ham hock.
3. Prepare of large onion.
4. You need of large can tomatoes.
5. It's of Salt.
6. Prepare of Pepper.
7. You need of Celery salt.
8. Prepare of butter.
9. You need of chopped oysters.
10. It's of okra.
11. Prepare of chopped parsley.
12. You need of flour thickening.
13. Prepare of Onion seasoning.
14. It's of Paprika.

Thicken with okra as it simmers, or toss in some filé at the finish. Of course I added my own little twist into the recipe as I've been making gumbo for many year but this one brought me back to how I originally learned the craft of making gumbo. I truly wish I could rate it higher. If there's a more satisfying meal to make for cool weather, we haven't found it.

Gumbo (southern style) instructions

1. Slowly boil hen and ham hock together in 3 quarts water.
2. When done take out chicken let cool cut up breast in diced pieces(remove ham hock from stock).
3. ( fry large slice of ham cut in very small pieces.
4. Skim all fat from stock.
5. Fry onion light brown pour tomatoes in skillet with onion cook 15 minutes.
6. Add stock.
7. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Put tomatoes diced chicken finely cut ham.
9. In stock let cook slowly.
10. Add pint chopped oysters (or same amount of crab meat or shrimp finely cut) okra and flour thickening.
11. Serve with steamed rice.

Gumbo is a stay-inside-and-cook-all-day kind of dish that warms you inside and out. While Louisianans have firm ideas about what goes into a proper gumbo, there are infinite variations—chicken and okra; turkey and sausage; duck, oyster, and sausage—and countless versions, including ones with filé as a. This is a beloved recipe shared with me by a native New Orleanian. As you probably have gathered, I love making comfort food style recipes that use lots of fresh produce and real ingredients. This is a recipe for a classic, dark brown, shrimp gumbo in true Louisiana Cajun country fashion.