Ingredients
1 cup oil
1 cup flour
1 bell pepper, chopped
3 celery stalk, chopped
3 garlic clove, minced
2 onion, chopped
1 chicken, cut up
1 lb smoked sausage or andouille
1 1/2 qt ; water, boiling
2 bay leaf
1 pt oysters
1 salt
1 pepper
1 rice, cooked
Directions
Make a dark roux wtih oil and flour. Add bell pepper, celery, garlic,
green onions, and onions. Saute until tender. Add chicken and brown.
Add sausage, boiling water, and bay leaves. Let simmer 1 hour. Remove
chicken from bones. Add chicken meat, salt, pepper, and oysters.
Cook 10 minutes more. Serve over rice.
--- per Ellen Cleary
Servings: 10 servings
Chicken Sausage Oyster Gumbo Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Chicken; Fish; Gumbo; Meat; Poultry
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to follow the history of transcribed cooking instructions way back into distant history, at least as far back into recorded history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further. In practice though, generally, these ancient records were just very basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians is a collection of tablets in Sumerian describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel `blissful`. Moving on, there were a couple of interesting books published in the 1300s - one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, they are unconnected to the curry that we all know today, but rather accounts of the types of meals served to the nobility of that time. During the next few hundred years, the upper-class families of the West competed with each other to serve up the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially cooks and their recipes were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century that cooking and recipe books became really popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, spent years to collecting, testing, and recording recipes to help cooks of their time. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cookery publications were in great demand, as a result of better eduction, more free time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Chicken Sausage Oyster Gumbo recipe.
