Simple Way to Make Quick Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo is 12 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo estimated approx 1 hour 30 mins.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Every southern family has a recipe for gumbo. So you may have seen anotger reciipe with other ingredients..... This is just ours. Old Gumbo recipes usual are passed down orally...

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo:

1. personal comments
2. 1 **** every southern family has a recipe for gumbo. This is just ours. Any kind of meat can be used in it but we generally just do chicken, but my brothers friends wanted shrimp in it.!!!
3. 1 **** GUMBO is African for okra .... so true gumbo is an okra stew.
4. ROUX
5. 1/4 cup veggie oil or bacon drippings
6. 3 tbsp flour
7. BROTH
8. 2 chicken thigh (because of fat content)
9. 2 tsp salt
10. 1 tsp black pepper
11. 1/2 large onion
12. 1 clove garlic (1tsp minced)
13. 10 cup water
14. 2 stalks celery minced
15. Gumbo ingredients
16. 15 medium shrimp (raw deviened, tail removed)
17. 1 large can diced or crushed tomatoes
18. 1 can rotel (tomatoes with green chilis).. drain the liquid and use the tomatoes and chilis.... the liquid holds a lot of heat..... w/o liquid is mild
19. 1 clove garlic (1 tsp minced)
20. 1/2 large onion
21. 1 1/2 tbsp gumbo file
22. 1 1/2 cup cooked rice (we add ours to the gumbo, but some people serve it on the side)
23. 1 1/2 cup frozen sliced okra

Steps to make Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo

1. mince the onion .... put 1/2 the onion, chicken, celery, salt, pepper, garlic powder in 10 cups of water. boil for about 40 minutes... chicken should be fall apart tender. if u use a carton of broth add onion, pepper, garlic powder to a full carton of broth and boil
2. remove chicken and set aside.
3. make Roux with flour and oil or Bacon drippings. add garlic and onion and stir to release oil into drippings.
4. add flour Roux mixture to pot of broth .... step back because it make steam up..
5. while broth and Roux are cooking turn down to medium. and debone the chicken (remove skin and bone and discard.
6. add both cans of tomatoes, okra, and let cook on Med for about 25 minutes. add chicken, shrimp, and gumbo file.
7. let cook until shrimp is pink... stir well.
8. ENJOY! !!

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