Recipe: Perfect Chicken and sausage gumbo

Chicken and sausage gumbo. You'll love the quality taste of Johnsonville Sausages with your next meal. The secrets to a good gumbo aren't anything fancy either, but if you take the time to do them right, your gumbo will be just as good as the ones served in New Orleans. Make sure to brown the sausage and chicken until they both have crispy caramelization.

Add the chicken pieces, bay leaf and finely minced fresh garlic. Cut the meat from the bones and discard the bones. Combine the oil and flour in a large cast iron or enameled cast iron Dutch oven over medium heat. You can have Chicken and sausage gumbo using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken and sausage gumbo

1. It's of sausages, cut.
2. You need of chicken breasts, cut.
3. Prepare of of whole tomatoes (cut in quarters).
4. You need of onion, chopped.
5. Prepare of celery stalks chopped.
6. You need of bell pepper, chopped.
7. Prepare of all-purpose flour.
8. Prepare of vegetable oil.
9. You need of garlic cloves, minced.
10. It's of of corn.
11. Prepare of whole okra, cut in halves.
12. It's of Creole seasoning, to taste.
13. It's of salt/pepper to taste.
14. It's of cayenne pepper, lightly to taste.
15. You need of crushed red pepper, lightly to taste.
16. Prepare of chicken broth.
17. It's of rice.
18. It's of hot sauce, squirt.
19. You need of worcestershire sauce, squirt.

Chicken and Sausage Gumbo is the ultimate Louisiana comfort food! This gumbo starts with a dark roux as its base. Once the roux is ready and combined with water, add sautéed chopped green bell pepper, onion and celery to the pot. Sear the chicken and sausage, too, before throwing them in, and letting the gumbo cook low and slow for hours.

Chicken and sausage gumbo step by step

1. Add flour and oil, whisk and stir constantly until it turns color of chocolate (20-25 minutes).
2. Mixed in diced vegetables for 5 minutes.
3. Add chicken, sausage, garlic and seasonings.
4. Add chicken broth, corn, okra, and tomatoes.
5. Bring to boil and let simmer on low/medium heat, stirring occasionally.
6. Serve over rice.

This Easy Chicken Gumbo recipe is like a party for your mouth! Vibrant, spicy flavor simmered to perfection, this combination of chicken, sausage, okra, and veggies is cooked in a creamy creole spiced broth that is just pure comfort. I have had several people ask me for an authentic chicken gumbo recipe. This is my attempt at a recipe. I didn't realize it until I sat down the try to type this, I don't know HOW I make gumbo!