This delicious looking gumbo

oof - negative

Mmm. Chipachole or sopa de mariscos.

I would eat it but it definitely isn’t gumbo.

I concur with everyone. Looks good.

But that's no gumbo!

That picture doesn't match the linked recipe really at all. The picture looks like something that would be rather appetizing as a sort of tomato based type stew, but certainly not a gumbo. They don't have shrimp in the recipe.

What they show in the actual recipe photos looks putrid.

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Place oil in saute pan over high heat.
Add onion, bell pepper, celery, and garlic and cook for 2 minutes.
Add tomato paste and stir. Cook until fragrant, approximately 1 minute.
Add flour and stir to combine.
Transfer contents from saute pan to the slow cooker.
Pour in chicken stock and tomatoes.
Add chicken and sausage.
Stir in salt, black pepper, Cajun seasoning, thyme, oregano, cayenne, and bay leaves, and slow cook on high for 3 hours.
Add okra to slow cooker and continue cooking for 30 minutes until okra is tender.
Garnish gumbo with scallions and gumbo filé, if desired, before serving.

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Nothing like a good tomato paste roux and more tomatoes on the back end...



Finished product picture. As said earlier, looks like a decent slow cooker chicken and tomato stew, but not a gumbo by any means.

To call that hot mess gumbo is an insult to any and all gumbo dishes ever fixed since time began.

When I was a student and didn’t really know how to cook, I came up with a gumbo using the crock-pot. Put in cut up whole chicken, sausage, onions, bell pepper, celery, okra, sprinkles of Tony’s. Mixed up Tony’s powdered roux mix with water and filled the pot. Let it go over night, then use tongs to break up the chicken and remove bones. Serve with rice and file’.

It was pretty damned good. My roommate laughed at it until he tried it, then he started asking when I was going to make it again.