Chicken Gumbo

Ingredients

• Small Chicken
• Medium onion
• Tablespoon of flour
• Pint of Water
• Quart of okra
• 2 large tomatoes
• 2 ears of corn
• Salt (to taste)
• Red pepper (to taste)

Directions

1. Wash and clean a small whole chicken. 
2. Fry chicken in a pot until it reach light brown in color.
3. While the chicken fries chop 1 medium size onion.
4. Place onion in pot with the chicken and fry until light brown.
5. Add a tablespoon of flour and brown with chicken and onions.
6. Add one pint of boiling water to the mixture.
7. Cut a quart of okra into thin crosswise slices.
8. Also cut 2 large tomatoes that have been peeled.
9. Cook the tomatoes for an hour.
10. Cook okra in separate pan until tender.
11. Once okra is tender place and tomatoes are cooked place in the pot with chicken.
12. Boil for about an hour or until desired.
13. Add 2 ears of corn 15 minuted before the gumbo is done.
14. Add salt and red pepper to taste.

-Tchoupitoulas Mission

Source —Cooking in Old Creole Days
Prepared by Lniya Burrell
Louisiana Anthology
July 19, 2021