Momositas Crock Pot Gumbo Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk in the flour to form a thick paste until smooth, about 3 minutes.
• Reduce heat to medium and continue cooking, whisking constantly, until the flour turns a dark reddish-brown roux, about 15 minutes. Set aside to cool.
• Pour water into a slow cooker.
• Stir in the roux, sausage, chicken, okra, onion, bell pepper, celery, garlic, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper.
• Cover and cook on Low for 6 to 7 hours.
• Skim off fat with a spoon.

Steps:

• Line a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker with a Reynolds® Slow Cooker Liner.
• Add tomatoes, chicken, broth, green pepper, onion, celery, Cajun seasoning, garlic, black pepper, and cayenne pepper to prepared slow cooker. Stir gently with wooden spoon or rubber scraper to combine.
• Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.
• Remove lid and stir in shrimp gently with a wooden spoon or rubber scraper. Cover and cook about 3 minutes more, or until shrimp is opaque. Serve over cooked rice.

Steps:

• Spray 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Heat 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Drizzle with olive oil, and add sausage. Cook about 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sausage lightly browns; spoon into slow cooker. In same skillet, add onion, bell pepper and celery. Cook until crisp-tender, stirring occasionally; add to slow cooker. In same skillet, add chopped chicken. Cook until no longer pink, stirring occasionally; add to slow cooker. Add okra to slow cooker.
• In heavy or cast-iron skillet, heat vegetable oil over medium-low heat. Using whisk, beat in flour; add Cajun seasoning and thyme. Continue to beat and cook 15 to 20 minutes, making roux that is brown and smells very nutty. Add beef stock, and beat well with whisk. Heat to boiling, beating constantly. Cook until thickened; add to slow cooker.
• Add diced tomatoes to slow cooker; stir well. Cover; cook on Low heat setting 6 hours.
• Serve gumbo with rice. Garnish with green onions before serving.

Steps:

• Soak your Mung beans overnight in 2 1/2 cups of water, rinse the beans twice before adding to the Gumbo.
• Heat the oil in a heavy skillet and stir in the flour, stirring constantly over medium heat until the roux is a dark reddish brown.
• Don't let it burn, be patient and keep stirring may take 10 minutes.
• When the roux has that rich brown color stir in the chicken stock, use a whip and keep stirring until you have a nice textured sauce.
• Add the Sage, garlic,& chili.
• Pour the sauce into your crock Pot.
• Add all the remaining ingredients including the uncooked, well rinsed mung beans, stir to mix the ingredients well.
• Turn the crockpot to low, cover with the lid and 6 hours later it is ready.
• Serve with white or Brown rice.

Steps:

• Roux:.
• Fry bacon and set aside on paper towels.
• Reserve 6 tbs. bacon grease.
• In a skillet on low heat, add 4 tbs. of bacon grease, flour and cajun seasoning.
• Brown flour slowly, stirring constantly, until dark copper brown. Be careful not to burn flour.
• Gumbo:.
• Transfer roux to crock pot.
• Lightly saute garlic, onion, celery and green pepper in 2 tbs. of bacon grease and add to crock pot.
• Crumble bacon and add to crock pot.
• Brown chicken, cube and add to crock pot.
• Slice sausage and add to crock pot.
• Add 8 cups of hot water to crock pot and stir until water and roux are blended.
• Cook on low heat for 6-8 hours.
• Just before serving add shrimp to crock pot and cook until shrimp turn pink.
• Serve over cooked rice and sprinkle lightly with file powder.

Steps:

• Make the roux:.
• Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed pan over medium heat. Add flour and mix, stirring constantly until the roux turns the color of a penny. Don't let the roux burn! This will take at least 10 minutes, but fear not - you will be using a crockpot to finish the work!
• Add roux to bottom of crockpot.
• Whisk in chicken broth and let cool while prepping the chicken and Trinity.
• Prepare the chicken and Trinity:.
• Melt the butter over medium heat in the same heavy-bottomed pan (rinse it out first).
• Add thighs and sear on both sides, sprinkling generously with Cajun seasoning.
• Once nicely browned on the outside, cut the thighs into bite-size pieces and add to roux mix.
• To the butter/brown bits pan, add the Trinity: onion, green pepper and garlic.
• Saute over medium heat until softened and fragrant.
• Add to the crockpot.
• Add the rest of the ingredients except the rice to the crockpot, stir, and cook on LOW for 8-10 hours.
• During the last 20 minutes of cooking (while you're making the rice), uncover the crockpot to allow the gumbo to thicken.