Chicken and Sausage Gumbo for 50?

I made a gallon ziplock freezer bag that fed 6 people a couple of bowls each. And there's enough left for about 5 more servings.

I'd say a gallon yields 15 small servings. Maybe ten large bowls.

That's my guesstimate.

10 bowls/gal = 5 gallons to feed 50. Kind of what I was thinking.

How many do you usually cook for when you make gumbo?

Doesn't Otis have a recipe for a gumbo for a crowd in the recipe book? Give it a look. Seems I remember him posting something. I know there was another thread on it and I'll try to find it.

Are they serving themselves or will they be served and what are you expecting per bowl-12 oz excluding rice, for example? Other food with it?

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Balls needs to make some potato salad.

There are some threads for large crowd gumbo on this page.

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Otis's recipe was for 125. Could probably halve that and have some extra or go a little under half.

We put 7 rotisserie chickens
5 pounds chicken breast
5 pounds chicken thighs
8 rounds smoked sausage
8 pounds andouille
3 pounds hills hire farms smoked sausage
9 pounds onions
Bundle celery
12 bell peppers
1 1/2 cups minced garlic
3/4 baby food jar of file'
2 cups fresh green onion tips out the garden
2 cups fresh parsley out the garden
6 cups flour
4 cups oil for the roux


That fills an 80 quart pot about 3/4 way, we fed 90 men and had leftovers. I'd cut that in half and you'll be golden

That's about right.

1 gallon per 10 people. So people saying 5-6 gallons would be correct. I usually buy those big frozen bags of chicken when making one (mine is usually made for about 20). So 3 of those types of bags would be safe. Sausage...I would say 3 of the large packages of sausage would do. For 20 I usually go one big and one small pack.

balls, go out to the barn and tractor shed and start shooting pigeons, now.