Grammy's Kitchen · Gumbo · Quicker Chicken and Okra Gumbo
One of 129 gumbo recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
4 cooks on www.seriouseats.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 129.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 156% | 96% |
| fat | 19% | 6% |
| aromatics | 72% | 21% |
| thickener | 16% | 4% |
| vegetables and beans | 41% | 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.
| 150 g | 1 large onion, roughly chopped (about 1 1/2 cups) |
| 120 g | 1 green bell pepper, roughly chopped (about 1 cup) |
| 120 g | 1 red bell pepper, roughly chopped (about 1 cup) |
| 40 g | 1 large stalk celery, roughly chopped (about 3/4 cup) |
| 41 g | 3 tablespoons vegetable oil |
| Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper | |
| 106 g | 3/4 cup (3 3/4 ounces) all-purpose flour |
| 85 g | 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into cubes |
| 9 g | 3 medium cloves garlic, minced (about 1 tablespoon) |
| 33 g | 2 tablespoons tomato paste |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon cajun seasoning |
| 3 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons smoked paprika |
| 1 g | 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper |
| 720 g | 3 cups homemade or store-bought low sodium chicken broth |
| 340 g | 12 ounces (1 can) ale (or substitute more low sodium chicken broth) |
| 227 g | 8 ounces fresh okra, cut into 1/2-inch pieces |
| 680 g | 1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless, chicken thighs, trimmed of visible fat and cut into 2-inch pieces |
| 300 g | 2 green onions, chopped |
| 925 g | 4 to 6 cups cooked rice to serve on the side |
| hot sauce to serve on the side |
Method: 4 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I'm fixing to make this recipe. One big fail I see is for this as a time-saving recipe is using freshly cut okra. First, good okra is very seasonal. Second, it's a messy thing to cut up. Third, for a stew like this, I've always found frozen cut okra to work ju” — a cook
“I've made this recipe several times, using boneless chicken thighs, whatever variety of chicken stock or broth I have on hand and some Amber O'Doul's. I use less bell pepper than the recipe calls for because that makes the recipe more in line with the proporti” — a cook