Grammy's Kitchen · Gumbo · 30-Minute Gumbo
One of 129 gumbo recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 129 for sauce body among the gumbo recipes we compared. 4 cooks on spicysouthernkitchen.com rate it 4.2★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 129.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 90% | 96% |
| fat | 3% | 6% |
| aromatics | 61% | 21% |
| thickener | 50% | 4% |
| vegetables and beans | 47% | 38% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 540 g | 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 640 g | 4 cup chopped yellow onion |
| 202 g | 2 cups chopped celery |
| 298 g | 2 cups chopped bell pepper |
| 28 g | 2 tablespoons salted butter (divided) |
| 397 g | 1 (12 or 14-ounce) package Andouille sausage (cut into slices) |
| 1 1/2 cups frozen Holy Trinity mixture thawed and drained (recipe below) | |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon minced garlic |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon Cajun seasoning |
| 1 g | 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme |
| 1 g | 1 bay leaf |
| 960 g | 4 cups low sodium chicken broth (divided) |
| 1 cup dry roux (sifted) | |
| 675 g | 3 cups shredded rotisserie chicken |
| salt and pepper to taste | |
| 1 1/2 teaspoons file powder | |
| cooked long grain rice | |
| sliced green onions for garnish |
Method: 8 steps, published by spicysouthernkitchen.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“All I can say is WOW! I’m a northerner who also lived in Mobile , AL for eight years. Gumbo, red beans & rice, and collard greens are the Bomb! I could never make the roux dark enough without burning it first. This dry roux recipe is great. I am a working wido” — a cook
“Shredding chicken, chopping Trinity and baking flour was 2 hours of high intensity prep and would have been longer if I'd frozen extra Trinity. The house smelled awful during and after the flour bake. Had to buy a flour sifter and it took a three stores to ” — a cook, 3★