7 real gumbo Recipes

whole chicken, cut up (save the gizzards and stuff for your dirty rice), sausage , as much as you feel like cutting up, water or chicken broth, how much depends on how big your chicken is and how much gumbo you want, butter, flour, onion, diced, green pepper, diced, head garlic, diced (as many cloves as you d like), stalks celery, cut up, salt, pepper, cajun seasoning (i use tony chachere s, it is available on the internet) or creole seasoning (i use tony chachere s, it is available on the internet)

do all the chopping ahead and precook the sausage links to save time, vegatable oil, flour ( all purpose, onions chopped, celery chopped, bell pepper diced, heavy chicken stock ( use canned if necessary), garlic diced, diced mushrooms, heavy shrimp stock, tspoons kitchen bouquet 2 tspoons quick fix flour, bay leaves, tspoonnred pepper flakes or more if you like the, zestier version, heavy shrmip stock made from removing tsp he shells and boiling in a separate sauce pan, gumbo grabs found at most every grocery, shrimp cleaned and shells used for stock, bs crawfish tails with fat in the p;ackage if fresh is not available, tspoons liquid crab boil this is available most everywhere, green onions thinly sliced used for garnish, salt and sea to taste, steamed rice, parsley ( fresh only diced for garnish ), precooked link sausage ( fresh ), some fillet gumbo to be added at the last minute ( it is a thickening agent, bay leaf, gumbo crabs ( in any good freezee)

crabs, cleaned, fresh, broken into 4 parts each, with claws cracked (for lack of fresh crab, 1.5 lbs chicken or fish may be substituted), raw shrimp, cleaned and peeled (if only shrimp are used, use 5 lbs), oyster, raw drained (optional), whole canned tomatoes, okra, thinly sliced (optional), bacon , real pork, onion, chopped, peppercorns, crab boil , zatarain s, thyme, flour, garlic cloves

all-purpose flour, salt, black pepper, cayenne, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, chicken breasts, skinned and cubed, vegetable oil, all-purpose flour, lard (crisco , or vegetable oil), chopped onions, chopped green bell peppers, chopped celery, chicken stock (vegetable stock, or water), andouille sausage, cubed (or hot italian sausage if you can tsp find the real deal), garlic cloves, minced, cooked rice

shrimp, peeled and de-veined (35-count), lump crabmeat, dozen shucked oysters , reserve liquid, shellfish stock, vegetable oil, flour, chopped onions, chopped celery, chopped bell pepper, diced garlic, sliced andouille sausage, claw crabmeat, sliced green onions, chopped parsley, salt, cayenne pepper, louisiana gold pepper sauce