Recipe: Delicious New Orleans gumbo 🎶🎺

New Orleans gumbo 🎶🎺. Good New Orleans Creole Gumbo Good New Orleans Creole Gumbo. This is not Gumbo, and other than the author's origins, has little to do with New Orleans. The foundation of a real New Orleans gumbo is a rich, dark roux.

The only thing more New Orleans than a dented pot of gumbo simmering on the back burner is arguing about the right way to make it. With a heritage claiming both French and West African roots, gumbo is a thick stew served over rice and made with a roux (a mixture of butter and flour) and a wide variety of ingredients such as celery, peppers, okra, onions chicken, sausage and/or seafood. This Authentic New Orleans Gumbo is made with a dark roux, vegetables, chicken, sausage, and shrimp, and served over rice. You can have New Orleans gumbo 🎶🎺 using 23 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of New Orleans gumbo 🎶🎺

1. Prepare of ➖Main ingredients ➖.
2. You need of fresh king prawns.
3. It's of chicken breasts (diced).
4. Prepare of spiced sausage e.g. chorizo.
5. Prepare of red pepper.
6. It's of orange pepper.
7. You need of red onion.
8. Prepare of okra (ladyfingers).
9. You need of garlic cloves.
10. It's of red chilli.
11. Prepare of celery stick.
12. Prepare of lemon thyme (stalks removed).
13. It's of chicken stock.
14. It's of chopped tomatoes.
15. Prepare of flour.
16. It's of ➖Creole seasoning ➖.
17. It's of smoked paprika.
18. You need of cayenne pepper.
19. It's of pepper.
20. Prepare of onion powder.
21. Prepare of onion powder.
22. Prepare of mixed herbs.
23. It's of salt.

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. Creole gumbo: A true New Orleans Creole gumbo starts with a lighter roux—meaning a shorter-cooked roux with a less intensely toasty flavor—ham or chaurice (spicy fresh-pork sausage), okra, and tomatoes, all simmered in a flavorful stock. The protein in Creole gumbo is often seafood, such as shrimp, oysters, and crab.

New Orleans gumbo 🎶🎺 instructions

1. Chop the chorizo. Place in a hot pan and cook to release the oils.
2. Chop the peppers, onion, garlic, chilli, celery and okra.
3. Remove the sausage from the pan with a slotted spoon saving the oil. Add the flour to the oil to make a roux. Cook to darken the roux..
4. Add the chopped vegetables, cooked chorizo, chicken and creole spices (see ingredients). Cook for 10mins on a medium heat.
5. Add the stock to deglaze the pan then add the chopped tomatoes and thyme. Cook on medium heat until the sauce has reduced.
6. Finally add the prawns and cook for a couple minutes.
7. Serve topped with some lemon thyme and serve with crusty bread.

This New Orleans Gumbo is a southern classic! It is full of sausage, shrimp, the "Holy Trinity" of vegetables, okra, and a dark roux. Enjoy the flavors of Louisiana in this comforting Creole dish! Every region of the country has their signature dish and Gumbo is the star of Louisiana. This soup is so full of flavor and comfort.