Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Brad's chicken and sausage gumbo

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