Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, cajun gumbo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cajun Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Cajun Gumbo is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
A classic roux is the thickening agent for this traditional Cajun-style gumbo made rich and hearty with chicken, sausage, onions, bell peppers, celery, garlic, and lively seasonings. Cajun gumbo is the tomato-free version of this legendary Louisiana stew, though there are otherwise very few rules that govern what goes into the pot. I like that the author labels this Cajun-style as opposed to Creole.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cajun gumbo using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun Gumbo:
- Make ready 4 chicken thighs
- Prepare aprox 16 king prawns
- Prepare bell peppers., green and red
- Prepare 1 large onion
- Make ready 1 tbsp paprika
- Get 1 tsp dried oregano
- Get 1 tsp dried thyme
- Get 1 tsp cayene pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp dried chilli
- Take 1 tsp garlic powder
- Take 3 fresh garlic cloves
- Take salt and lots of black pepper
- Take pint chicken stock
- Make ready 1 tsp tomato paste
- Take plain flour
- Take oil
To delight in true Cajun cuisine, one must travel west of New Orleans into Acadiana, where, in my opinion, the food is much better! Gumbo (French: Gombo) is a soup popular in the U. S. state of Louisiana, and is the official state cuisine. Gumbo consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and three kinds of vegetables ― celery, bell peppers, and onions.
Steps to make Cajun Gumbo:
- Firstly make a spice mix by mixing all your dry herbs and spices together. Turn your oven on to 220. using half the spices mix rub the chicken thighs with it and put into the oven until cooked through and a bit charred looking.
- Next you need to make a roux with oil (not butter) and flour. This needs to be on a medium heat and stirred constantly for about 30-40 minutes until it goes a dark brown colour.
- To your roux add the spices, onions, garlic, tomato paste and peppers and cook for about ten mins.
- Next add your chicken stock to the pan.
- Once your chicken is cooked, take out of the oven and using two forks shred it and pop into the pan. let cook for as long as you can. When you are ready to eat add your prawns and cook through.
- Serve along some nice fluffy rice and corn on the cob.
Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used, whether okra or filé powder (dried and ground sassafras leaves). Once again, there seems to be some mistake between cajun and creole cooking, and then another completely separate group of people trying to replicate a gumbo without thinking. Cajun people do not use tomatoes and okra in their gumbo. We also DO NOT use already made soups, or bases in our gumbos. We use very simple ingredients and get a very good result.
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