How long to cook gumbo soup?

It takes 3 hours to make gumbo soup.

How to cook gumbo

Products

Smoked meats (brisket, sausage, chicken, sausages) – 50 grams of each type

Seafood (peeled king prawns, squid and mussels rings) – 70 grams of each seafood

Chicken thighs – 2 pieces

Gumbo (okra) fruit – 1,5 cups

Celery – 3 stalks

Green bell pepper – 1 piece

Tomatoes – 3 large

Garlic – 3 prongs

Onions – 1 large head

Olive oil – 3 tablespoons

Butter – 80 grams

Bay leaf – 2 leaves

Flour – 4 tablespoons (75-80 grams)

Cayenne pepper – 2 pinches

Black pepper – 0,5 teaspoon

Salt – to taste

Vinegar – 1 glass

How to make gumbo soup

1. Boil chicken thigh broth and 2 liters of water for half an hour.

2. Remove the chicken from the broth, separate the meat from the bones and sprinkle with seasoning.

3. Peel the shrimps, put the shells and heads of the shrimps in the chicken broth and cook for half an hour, then strain the broth.

4. Wash 1,5 cups okra and 3 celery stalks, chop across.

5. Peel the bell pepper from seeds and stalks, cut into small cubes.

5. Preheat a thick-walled saucepan, pour in olive oil.

6. Put boiled chicken pieces into a saucepan, fry for 3 minutes.

7. Add chopped onion and finely chopped garlic, pepper and celery.

8. Cut the smoked meats into shavings and add to the pan.

9. Pour in half a liter of broth and simmer the future gumbo over low heat for half an hour.

10. Put butter in a frying pan and melt it.

11. Pour flour into boiling oil.

12. Fry over medium heat until golden brown.

13. Pour the rest of the broth into a frying pan and stir the flour with vigorous movements until the consistency of the sauce is uniform, boil and pour into the soup.

14. Stew the okra, peppers and tomatoes in oil for 7 minutes, then add to the gumbo and cook for 5 minutes.

15. Put the shrimps in the soup, cook the gumbo for another 3 minutes.

16. Season the gumbo to taste and cook for another 2 minutes.

Serve gumbo soup on flat plates, garnish with herbs. Serve rice as a garnish for the gumbo.

Delicious facts

– Gumbo is a thick soup made from meat and vegetables with a lot of spices. Gumbo is an American dish especially common in Louisiana.

– Any meat can be used for gumbo: game, poultry, smoked meats, sausages, shellfish, oysters.

– It is important to cook gumbo from okra peeled from the stalks.

– To prepare gumbo, you can use not only chicken, but also any other broth, for example, from seafood. It can be cooked from the shells of shrimp, crayfish or crabs (if used to make gumbo). This broth needs to be cooked for 1 hour. Also gumbo can be boiled in water.

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