Shreveportchickenandshrimpgumbo Recipes

Steps:

• Cook and stir flour in a large, heavy pot over medium-low heat until flour turns golden brown, about 15 minutes. Pour browned flour into a bowl and return pot to heat.
• Increase heat to medium and add oil to the pot. Cook and stir onions and bell peppers in hot oil until slightly softened, about 7 minutes.
• Stir garlic, thyme, and bay leaves into onion mixture; cook and stir for 1 minute. Add sausage to onion mixture and cook and stir until browned and crumbly, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Stir diced tomatoes with juice, shredded chicken, chicken broth, vegetable juice cocktail, browned flour, and Creole seasoning into sausage mixture. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover the pot, and simmer, stirring often, until mixture is hot and flavors blend, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Pour shrimp into sausage-chicken mixture; bring to a simmer. Cook shrimp until they are pink on the outside and the meat is no longer transparent in the center, about 5 minutes.
• Discard bay leaves. Season gumbo with salt and pepper to taste.

Steps:

• Combine flour and oil in a large pot or a 5 quart Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until a dark reddish-brown roux forms in 20 - 30 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and immediately add the onions, green onions, green peppers, celery, and garlic. Stir well and return to heat and stir frequently for 8 - 10 minutes until vegetables are tender.
• Add chicken broth, V-8, salt, thyme, bay leaves, cayenne pepper, tomatoes, and okra. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to low. Simmer for an hour, stirring periodically.
• Stir in chicken and shrimp and remove bay leaves. Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Serve 1 1/2 cups of gumbo over 1/2 cup of rice. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon of file powder to each bowl and Tabasco to taste.

Steps:

• Stir together the oil, tarragon, parsley, Dijon, honey, vinegar, whole-grain mustard, garlic and lemon juice in a large bowl. Add the shrimp and toss to coat well. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
• Remove the shrimp from the marinade, reserving the marinade. Thread the shrimp alternately with the lemon slices onto skewers. Sprinkle the shrimp lightly with salt and pepper.
• Pour the marinade into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer 5 minutes or until very hot. Reserve the marinade for serving.
• Preheat a grill to medium-high heat. Grill the shrimp kabobs until cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Transfer to a platter and garnish with fresh parsley. Serve with the reserved marinade.

Steps:

• *Removeas much fat from the chicken as possible; cut smoked sausage or andouille into half inch slices and set aside.
• In a two gallon stock pot, heat oil over medium heat; sprinkle in flour and whisk constantly until a golden brown roux is achieved; DO NOT scorch; if black specks appear, discard it and start again.
• Add onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic; saute 3-5 minutes or until vegetables are wilted; add chicken and sausage, blending well into vegetable mixture; saute approximately fifteen minutes.
• Add chicken stock, one ladle at a time, stirring constantly until all is incorporated; bring to a rolling boil, reduce to simmer and cook approximately one hour, stirring occasionally and skimming any fat or oil that rises to the top of the pot.
• Add mushrooms, green onions, bay leaf, thyme and basil; season to taste with salt, pepper and Tabasco.
• Cook an additional one to two hours if necessary, until chicken is tender and falling apart; add parsley and shrimp; cook for an additional 10-15 minutes, or until shrimp is hot; adjust seasonings and serve over hot steamed white rice.
• Pass additional Tabasco at the table, to taste.
• *Youmay want to boil the chicken a couple of hours before beginning the gumbo.
• Reserve the stock, debone the chicken and use the meat and the stock in the gumbo.

Steps:

• Combine garlic, pepper, celery, scallions, chili powder, thyme, and oil into a 2-1/2 quart microwave-safe casserole dish.
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Cook at 100% for 10 minutes.
• Prick plastic to release steam.
• Remove from oven and uncover.
• Mound vegetable in the center of the dish.
• Arrange shrimp and sausage around vegetables and place okra in the center, on top of the vegetables.
• Pour tomatoes over shrimp.
• Cover tightly with plastic wrap.
• Cook for 3 minutes.
• Prick plastic.
• Stir ingredients well.
• Continue cooking for 2 minutes.
• Prick plastic.
• Remove from oven.
• Uncover and add broth.
• Cook, uncovered, for 2 minutes or until hot.

Steps:

• Cook green pepper and onion in butter in a large saucepan until tender but not brown. Stir in flour. Add tomatoes, cooked chicken, tsp of the salt, thyme, and hot pepper sauce. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a large saucepan. Stir in rice and 1 tsp salt. (You may also want to add additional butter in at this time.) Cover tightly for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand until all liquid is absorbed, about 5 minutes.
• Add shrimp to gumbo and continue to cook for an additional 5 minutes. Stir parsley into rice.
• To serve, combine stew and rice into individual serving bowls.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and jalapeno and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Drain liquid from tomatoes into the stockpot. Place tomatoes on a cutting board, dice, and add to the pot. Add chicken broth, rice mix, and seasoning packet, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until rice is tender, about 25 minutes.
• Add sliced sausage and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in shrimp, and cook until they are bright pink on the outside and the meat is opaque, about 3 minutes more.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat.
• Add onions, red pepper, celery, and garlic. Saute until onion is softened, about 5-6 minutes.
• Stir in flour. Cook, stirring about 5 minutes, until lightly browned.
• Stir in broth, tomatoes, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
• Add chicken and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook 10 minutes.
• Add okra and cook 5 minutes.
• Add shrimp and cook until chicken, okra, and shrimp are just cooked through, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in Tabasco and serve.