This would be good with okra or rice. My family liked this very well with no okra or rice.

This is great for freezing. Just make a pot of rice and your gumbo thaws out perfectly and probably tastes better. :positive

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The best way to finish up that leftover turkey. This gumbo is full of flavor and is delicious over rice or without. The day after Thanksgiving and/or Christmas when everyone was tired of eating the turkey, my Mom would take the carcass and smoosh it into a large pot and cover it with water and let it simmer all day in preparation for the gumbo. Then start the roux. The base of any legit gumbo is the roux, which should cook until it is a dark chocolate brown color. #GoldenApron23

This recipe is adapted from Paul Prudohmme's recipe. If you don't want the crab and oysters, feel free to omit them, but add in 1 chicken breast or 2 chicken thighs, finely diced instead to give the soup some body. You may be tempted to use butter for the roux, but don't. It will burn and turn bitter. This recipe is easiest if you have two large pots, but if you don't, you can transfer the roux to a bowl, and use 1 pot.

When I travel to New Orleans I always look forward to eating Gumbo. Chicken and Andouille sausage is a classic Cajun meal but some people prefer shrimp or seafood gumbo. A nice hardy meal.

Don't get much better than this

Nothing beats a great cup or bowl of Gumbo. You get the best of everything in one bowl.

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Got some leftover chicken and some Conecuh sausage, with nasty weather outside? Perfect time to cook up a big pot’o gumbo. Don’t forget the cornbread! #february 2026