5 authentic chicken gumbo Recipes

water, chicken (5 lb), cut up, onions, quartered, celery ribs, cut into 3-inch pieces, garlic cloves, coarsely chopped, salt, garlic powder, poultry seasoning, cayenne pepper, pepper, white pepper, canola oil, all-purpose flour, onion, finely chopped, johnsonville andouille sausage links, chopped, sliced okra, shucked oysters, gumbo file powder, hot cooked rice

oil, flour, onions, chopped, bell peppers, chopped, celery ribs, chopped, garlic cloves, minced, chicken stock, bay leaves, dried thyme leaves, salt & freshly ground black pepper, chicken , cut into pieces, andouille sausages or 2 lbs smoked sausage, cut into 1/2-inch pieces, scallion, tops only, chopped (green onions), chopped fresh parsley, file powder

vegetable oil, flour, chopped onions, chopped bell pepper, chopped celery, water (may wish to substitute some chicken stock), bay leaves, ground thyme, roasting chickens, cut into serving pieces, salt, cayenne, andouille sausage , cut crosswise into 1/4 inch slices, chopped green onions, chopped fresh parsley, file powder

qts. chicken stock (must be homemade!), flour, oil, chicken or guinea hen, without giblets, cut up, andouillesausage , sliced about 1/4 thick on the bias (you may substitute hot or mild smoked sausage if good andouille isn tsp available) and/or fresh creole hot sausage, browned, shrimp, peeled and deveined, blue crabs, cleaned, broken in half and claws pulled off (or for a more elegant looking gumbo, omit and instead add 1-1/2 lb lump white crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage), okra, sliced (leave out if you don tsp like okra, but be sure to add file at the end if you leave out the okra), onions, chopped, green onions with tops, chopped, bell peppers, chopped, ribs celery, chopped, several cloves garlic, minced, bay leaves, fresh parsley, chopped, black, white and cayenne peppers , to taste, salt to taste, few dashes tabasco , or to taste., file powder (only if you don tsp use okra!), steaming hot louisiana long-grain rice