Best Gumbo Shrimp Tasso Ham Andouille Sausage Chicken File Recipes

CHICKEN, TASSO AND ANDOUILLE GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large stock pot fry andouille and tasso in 2 tablespoons vegetable oil until browned. Remove meats and set aside. Add 1 cup vegetable oil and allow to heat. Whisk in flour and cook until a chocolate color is reached. Add onion, celery, garlic and bell pepper to roux and cook 15 to 20 minutes. Add chicken, reserved sausages, stock, tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves, and kitchen bouquet and simmer for 45 minutes.
• While gumbo is simmering, heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large fry pan. Add okra and cook on medium heat until no longer stringy. After 45 minutes of gumbo simmering, add okra, green onion, parsley and salt and pepper, to taste. Simmer 20 more minutes. Serve with rice and allow people to add hot sauce and file, to taste.

FRIED CHICKEN AND ANDOUILLE-FILE GUMBO

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a heavy 5-quart pot over medium heat. Add the chicken and brown on all sides. Remove chicken and set aside.
• Make a roux by blending the flour into the oil in the pot and stirring constantly with a long-handled spoon until the mixture is a deep coffee brown. Add the sausage, ham, onion, green pepper and celery. Saute, stirring, for about 10 minutes. Add the browned chicken, scallions, garlic, parsley, thyme, bay leaves and enough water to cover, stirring to incorporate the roux into the liquid.
• Stir in salt and pepper and simmer the soup slowly, partly covered, until the chicken is tender, about 1 hour. If you are using the very spicy rind of tasso ham, you will probably not need cayenne or Tabasco. Otherwise, add either toward the end of cooking.
• Take out the chicken and set aside just until cool enough to handle. Pull off the skin and bones and return the chicken to the soup in large pieces. Adjust seasoning if needed. The soup can be prepared in advance up to this point and stored, covered, in the refrigerator for 2 days. Skim fat from soup.
• Bring the soup to a simmer. Five minutes before serving, remove from heat and stir in the file powder. Cover and let stand for about 5 minutes. Do not boil the soup after the file has been added. Mound rice in soup plates and ladle the gumbo over.

CHICKEN, TASSO AND ANDOUILLE GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large stock pot fry andouille and tasso in 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, until browned. Remove meats and set aside.
• Add 1 cup vegetable oilm and allow to heat.
• Whisk in flour, and cook until a chocolate color is reached.
• Add onion, celery, garlic and bell pepper to roux, and cook 15-20 minutes.
• Add chicken, reserved sausages, stock, tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves, and Kitchen Bouquet, and simmer for 45 minutes.
• While gumbo is simmering, heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large fry pan. Add okra and cook on medium heat until no longer stringy.
• After gumbo simmers for 45 minutes, add okra, green onion, parsley and salt and pepper, to taste.
• Simmer 20 more minutes.
• Serve with rice and allow people to add hot sauce and file, to taste.

ANDOUILLE SAUSAGE, CHICKEN, AND SHRIMP GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large stock pot, combine the clarified butter and flour. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, for about 20 minutes until the roux turns very dark brown almost black. (Don't be intimidated by the color of the roux, the darker it is the better).
• add onion, carrot, and celery to roux and cook until tender.
• Add garlic and cook briefly until fragrant.
• Slowly add stock to roux in 3 stages, ensuring that the roux is completely smooth. Bring to a boil, then lower heat to a simmer.
• Add cajun seasoning and file powder.
• Add the sausage, chicken, shrimp, and allow it to cook until the shrimp just turns pink.
• Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Serve with rice and a wedge of lime.

SHRIMP AND SAUSAGE AND CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• Cook and stir flour in a large, heavy pot over medium-low heat until flour turns golden brown, about 15 minutes. Pour browned flour into a bowl and return pot to heat.
• Increase heat to medium and add oil to the pot. Cook and stir onions and bell peppers in hot oil until slightly softened, about 7 minutes.
• Stir garlic, thyme, and bay leaves into onion mixture; cook and stir for 1 minute. Add sausage to onion mixture and cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Stir diced tomatoes with juice, shredded chicken, chicken broth, vegetable juice cocktail, browned flour, and Creole seasoning into sausage mixture. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover the pot, and simmer, stirring often, until mixture is hot and flavors blend, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Pour shrimp into sausage-chicken mixture; bring to a simmer. Cook shrimp until they are pink on the outside and the meat is no longer transparent in the center, about 5 minutes.
• Discard bay leaves. Season gumbo with salt and pepper to taste.