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+---
+tags:
+  - american
+---
+
+# Gumbo
+
+## Ingredients
+
+* 1 green bell pepper
+* 1 large white onion
+* 1–2 stalks of celery
+* 2 cloves garlic
+* 2 Andouille sausages
+* 400g chicken meat
+* 1 l broth
+* 2 bay leaves
+* 150g ocra
+* Ground paprika
+* freshly ground black pepper
+* cayenne pepper
+* dried thyme
+* dried oregano
+
+## Directions
+
+1. Mince bell pepper, onion, celery and garlic; cut Okra in 1/2 cm slices.
+   * set aside, keep the garlic separated
+2. Slice Andouille sausage 1/2 cm, fry nicely in a dutch oven pan
+3. Cut chicken into rough pieces and marinade with ground paprika, black pepper and cayenne powder
+4. Fry chicken in same dutch oven pan as the sausage until nicely golden brown; remove from pan
+5. Fry bell pepper, onion, celery, okra; add garlic a bit later. Add dried thyme and oregano as well as the remainders of the chicken marinade powder
+6. In the now cleaned Dutch oven pan, make the roux.
+
+_tbc_