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Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo.

Hello everybody, it's John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to make a special dish, chicken and shrimp gumbo. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken and shrimp gumbo using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo:

1. Make ready of personal comments.
2. Make ready 1 of **** every southern family has a recipe for gumbo. This is just ours. Any kind of meat can be used in it but we generally just do chicken, but my brothers friends wanted shrimp in it.!!!.
3. Prepare 1 of **** GUMBO is African for okra .... so true gumbo is an okra stew..
4. Make ready of ROUX.
5. Get 1/4 cup of veggie oil or bacon drippings.
6. Prepare 3 tbsp of flour.
7. Get of BROTH.
8. Prepare 2 of chicken thigh (because of fat content).
9. Take 2 tsp of salt.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of black pepper.
11. Take 1/2 large of onion.
12. Make ready 1 clove of garlic (1tsp minced).
13. Make ready 10 cup of water.
14. Take 2 of stalks celery minced.
15. Prepare of Gumbo ingredients.
16. Get 15 medium of shrimp (raw deviened, tail removed).
17. Make ready 1 large of can diced or crushed tomatoes.
18. Get 1 can of rotel (tomatoes with green chilis).. drain the liquid and use the tomatoes and chilis.... the liquid holds a lot of heat..... w/o liquid is mild.
19. Make ready 1 clove of garlic (1 tsp minced).
20. Take 1/2 large of onion.
21. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp of gumbo file.
22. Get 1 1/2 cup of cooked rice (we add ours to the gumbo, but some people serve it on the side).
23. Make ready 1 1/2 cup of frozen sliced okra.

Steps to make Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo:

1. mince the onion .... put 1/2 the onion, chicken, celery, salt, pepper, garlic powder in 10 cups of water. boil for about 40 minutes... chicken should be fall apart tender. if u use a carton of broth add onion, pepper, garlic powder to a full carton of broth and boil.
2. remove chicken and set aside..
3. make Roux with flour and oil or Bacon drippings. add garlic and onion and stir to release oil into drippings..
4. add flour Roux mixture to pot of broth .... step back because it make steam up...
5. while broth and Roux are cooking turn down to medium. and debone the chicken (remove skin and bone and discard..
6. add both cans of tomatoes, okra, and let cook on Med for about 25 minutes. add chicken, shrimp, and gumbo file..
7. let cook until shrimp is pink... stir well..
8. ENJOY! !!.

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