Easiest Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, brad's chicken and sausage gumbo. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have brad's chicken and sausage gumbo using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:

1. Get chicken thighs with bone and skin
2. Make ready Seasoned flour to dredge chicken
3. Take lg yellow onion, chopped
4. Make ready red & 1 yellow bell pepper, chopped
5. Get celery stalks, chopped
6. Get roma tomatoes, chopped
7. Make ready garlic, peeled and smashed
8. Make ready cream sherry
9. Make ready shortening
10. Get flour
11. Make ready water
12. Take granulated chicken bouillon
13. Make ready dried oregano
14. Get smoked paprika
15. Make ready white pepper
16. Get Cajun seasoning to taste. I like it spicy so I used a fair bit
17. Make ready frozen okra
18. Take andouille sausage, sliced 1/2 inch thick
19. Make ready prepared white rice
20. Make ready Gumbo filé

Instructions to make Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo:

1. Place seasoned flour into a lg ziplock bag. Add chicken and seal. Shake well to coat evenly. Heat canola oil in a lg frying pan just under medium heat. Fry chicken covered until golden brown on both sides. Set aside.
2. In the same pan, reserve 2 tbs of the chicken grease. Add onions, peppers, and celery. Fry on medium heat until onions are translucent.
3. Meanwhile in a lg Dutch oven, melt shortening on medium heat. Add flour and mix thoroughly. Stir almost constantly until the roux becomes almost a chocolate brown and smells very nutty. This takes a while, but is the base Flavor of the dish. If it starts to smell burnt. Start over.
4. Add tomatoes and garlic to the onion mixture. Keep frying until about half of the liquid from the onions evaporates. Add sherry. Bring to a simmer until half of that liquid evaporates.
5. When the roux is done it will be a nice caramel color. Slowly add the onion mixture to it. Continue to stir constantly. Add water and mix thoroughly. Add the fried chicken, bouillon and spices. Bring to a simmer and simmer for an hour uncovered. Stir every 5-10 minutes
6. Adjust seasonings to taste. Add okra and sausage. Simmer for another 20 minutes.
7. In a bowl, plate rice off to one side. Add gumbo to the bowl, and top with a chicken thigh. Sprinkle a little gumbo filé on top and serve immediately. Enjoy.

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