Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

Southern

Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

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Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

90 min Involved Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Make a roux by whisking the flour and oil in a heavy pot over medium heat until it turns a deep peanut-butter brown, about 20 minutes.

  2. Add the onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic and cook until softened, about 6 minutes.

  3. Stir in the Cajun seasoning, then whisk in the broth and diced tomatoes and add the bay leaves.

  4. Add the sliced sausage and chicken thighs and simmer until the chicken is tender, about 30 minutes.

  5. Add the okra and simmer 15 minutes, then stir in the shrimp and cook until pink, about 5 minutes.

  6. Serve the gumbo over cooked rice, topped with sliced scallions.

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Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo carries gluten and shellfish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Shellfish Yes BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
470 kcal
Protein
30 g
Carbs
38 g
Fat
22 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
950 mg
Saturated fat
6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Hearty Chicken and Sausage Gumbo takes about 90 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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