Creole Gumbo Pot

Category: Soups, Stews and Chili

Cuisine: American

Ready in 4 hours

Ingredients

1 sm Eggplant

1 lg Onion chopped

2 tb Long grain white rice

2 ts Salt

1 Garlic clove, crushed

2 c Boiling chicken stock

1 cn Tomatoes in tomato juice

Fresh dill sprigs (opt)

3/4 c Frozen corn, thawed

Fresh ground pepper to taste

Salt to taste

1/2 ts Hot chili powder

8 oz Peeled cooked medium-size

2 ts Paprika

3 tb olive oil

1 Red pepper, seeded, diced

4 oz Fresh okra


Directions

Trim stalk end from eggplant. Cut in 1/2" pieces and place in a colander. Sprinkle with 2 teaspoons salt; let stand 30 minutes. Rinse under cold water and drain well. Heat olive oil in a saucepan. Add eggplant, onion, red pepper and garlic and fry over low heat 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in paprika and chili powder and cook gently 2 minutes. Trim stalk ends from okra and discard. Cut okra in quarters. Add okra, corn, chicken stock and tomatoes to eggplant mixture. Break up tomatoes with a spoon. Stir in rice, cover and simmer gently 25 minutes or until vegetables and rice are tender. Add shrimp to mixture and heat through 5 minutes, stirring ocasionally. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with dill sprigs, if desired. VARIATION: Stir in 2/3 cup half-and-half and heat through just before serving.

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