Branum Family Chicken Gumbo Recipe
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Ingredients: 6 - 8 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, large white onion, flour, salt, pepper, and file'
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Directions:Mince onion and set aside
Sprinkle chicken breasts well with seasoned salt
Fry chicken in skillet with Crisco shortening until very brown
Place fried chicken on paper towels to absorb excess grease and reserve oil in pan
Set chicken aside to cool down
Fill Dutch oven 3/4 full of water and heat water to steaming
While water is heating, cut or pull apart chicken breasts into bite size pieces
Place chicken in steaming water and continue to keep hot
Reheat reserved oil in skillet and add onion
Once onion begins browning start seasoning with salt and pepper and adding flour to oil & onion until the oil is absorbed well into flour making a very thick gravy mixture (Roux)
Continue to stir and cook roux until onions are very brown and the roux is seasoned with salt and pepper through out
Drop roux by spoonfuls into steaming water with chicken, stirring until dissolved
Continue cooking gumbo at slow boil until it cooks down to desired soup consistency
Gumbo needs to be hot but NOT boiling before sprinkling with file' to desired taste
NOTE: file' needs to be added and allowed to season gumbo for at least 30 minutes prior to serving
Fix desired amount of rice according to package directions.
Serve gumbo over rice. |
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Notes: Mom (Emma Jean) provided me with her recipe for gumbo shortly after Bill and I were married in 1979. Mom's cooking skills far exceeded what I could even comprehend at that time. So while the recipe has detailed directions that will seem quite elementary to a real cook - just take into consideration that in 1979 I didn't even know what roux was. (in case you are wondering - Bill cooked the first real home cooked meal we shared so he had an idea of what he was getting into and married me anyway) I'm not sure how many years it was before I even attempted my hand on the Branum traditional meal of chicken gumbo, potato salad and home made hot rolls. Through the years I've achieved some good results with the gumbo and potato salad, however, the homemade hot rolls of moms' have been replaced with dear Sister Schubert's. I'm now long past the embarrassing moment of when mom presented me with the gift of my own pastry cutter and I had to ask what it was!
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