re: Poll: Do you brown your chicken for gumbo?

I have fried my chicken before adding it. I have used Sam's Rotisserie chicken, which is convenient. I have used baked chicken from my oven, and have used raw chicken, like for chciken and dumplings. Left over chicken, too. Gumbo is gumbo and all of these work fine. Using roasted bones is also a great way to make broth, as is using canned chicken broth, with some added chicken stock paste.

I have never cooked a pot of my gumbo I didn't like. My mom never made a pot I didn't like. I have only had a few bowls of gumbo cooked by others that wasn't acceptable, with those few incidents being strange recipes, with Broccoli corn, Kale, and such added. The most common bad gumbo was burnt, or scorched stuff with the cook insisting the burnt taste was "Not too bad".