Ma Harper’s Creole Gumbo

  4.6 – 5 reviews  • Rice Recipes
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 40 min
Active: 55 min
Yield: 30 cups (15 to 20 bowls)

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups all-purpose flour
  2. 1 pound chicken meat, light or dark, cut into pieces
  3. 2 teaspoons oil
  4. 1 pound smoked or hot sausage, sliced
  5. 2 large onions, chopped
  6. 1 large bell pepper, chopped
  7. 1 head garlic, chopped
  8. 6 whole blue crabs, cleaned and back shell removed
  9. 2 teaspoons thyme
  10. 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  11. 5 ribs celery, chopped
  12. 3 small bay leaves
  13. 1 bunch green onion, chopped
  14. 3 quarts chicken or seafood stock
  15. 2 teaspoons salt
  16. 1 teaspoon black pepper
  17. Cajun seasoning, to taste
  18. 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
  19. Rice, for serving
  20. Gumbo file powder, for serving

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place flour in a baking pan and bake, watching and stirring occasionally until flour is a nutty brown color. Sift to remove the lumps of flour.
  2. Saute chicken in oil in a large pot. Add sausage and cook until it begins to change color. Add onions, bell pepper and garlic and let cook until onion is clear. Add crabs and let cook until the crabs have changed color. Add thyme, cayenne, celery, bay leaves, green onions and flour and let mixture cook 5 minutes. Add stock and season with salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning. Cook for 45 minutes over medium heat, then stir in parsley. Serve over rice. Add gumbo file to each serving.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 of 22 servings
Calories 319
Total Fat 18 g
Saturated Fat 5 g
Carbohydrates 13 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Sugar 1 g
Protein 25 g
Cholesterol 91 mg
Sodium 408 mg

Reviews

Jeffrey Oliver
Not the same recipe! On the show they included ham & put the file’ in while cooking. I hate when they substitute recipes.
Sara Gonzalez
This was easy to make . I added some spices that I thought would be good and it turned out amazing!

 

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