Southern
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
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.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 12 oz andouille sausage
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 onion
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 green bell pepper
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 cups okra
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 tbsp cajun seasoning
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp cayenne
- 2 cups long-grain white rice
- 3 scallions
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Whisk the oil and flour together in a heavy pot over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, until the roux turns a deep chocolate brown, about 25 minutes.
- Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic and cook until softened, about 6 minutes.
- Stir in the sliced sausage, cajun seasoning, thyme, cayenne, and bay leaves, then slowly whisk in the broth.
- Add the chicken thighs and okra, bring to a boil, then simmer gently until the chicken is tender, about 45 minutes.
- Remove the chicken, shred it, return it to the pot, season with the salt, and simmer 10 minutes more.
- Cook the rice separately and serve the gumbo ladled over the rice with scallions on top.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken and Sausage Gumbo, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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. Chicken and Sausage Gumbo carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo takes about 120 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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, sausage, and okra.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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