Chicken And Crab Gumbo Low Fat Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oil in a big pot or Dutch oven over medium heat.
• Whisk together the flour and cayenned, then whisk into oil. Reduce heat to medium/low and continue whisking for a few minutes until the roux turns a golden colour.
• Add onions, celery, peppers and garlic. Cook 5 - 10 minutes until vegetables are wilted.
• Add broth, tomatoes, chicken, rice, salt, pepper and hot sauce. Cover and simmer 20 minutes.
• Add corn and crabmeat and simmer 5 minutes. Add green onions and summer 2 minutes longer.
• Adjust salt, pepper and hot sauce to taste.
• Note: You may add 1 cup sliced okra when you add the chicken.

Steps:

• Place chicken in a 6- to 8-quart stockpot and pour in enough water to completely cover the chicken; bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium, and simmer until chicken is no longer pink at the bone and juices run clear, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
• Remove chicken from water and place on a work surface to cool, retaining the resulting chicken stock in the stockpot.
• Cook and stir millet flour and vegetable oil together in a large frying pan or skillet over medium heat until roux is smooth and slightly darker than peanut butter, about 10 minutes.
• Mix onion, green bell pepper, and garlic into roux; cook and stir over low heat until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer onion-roux mixture to stockpot with chicken stock.
• Bring chicken stock mixture to a simmer over medium heat; add andouille sausage, celery, green onion, bay leaves, salt, thyme, and cayenne pepper and simmer for 1 hour.
• Remove skin from cooked chicken and discard. Pull meat from the bones and chop into bite-size pieces; discard carcass. Add chicken meat to broth mixture and simmer until chicken is heated through, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Remove stockpot from heat, stir file powder into gumbo, and remove and discard bay leaves.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a soup pot over meadium heat, and add the ionion, celery, bell pepper, garlic, and black pepper. Cover, and cook just until the vegetables begin to soften, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir in flour, and cook, stirring frequently, for 3 minutes. Gradually stir in 2 1/2 cans of the broth and bring to a simmer (approx. 15 minutes on low/medium heat).
• Add the tomatoes, ham, chicken, thyme, bay leaf and red pepper. Partially cover and cook until the chicken is tender, 25 to 35 minutes, adding the remaining broth as necessary if the gumbo is too thick.
• Remove from heat, transfer the chicken to a plate and let it cool slightly. Cut into bite-size pieces, discarding the bones, and return to the pot. Reheat briefly, and stir in the parsley. Remove the bay leaf before serving.