Nana's Chicken Seafood Gumbo Courtesy The Neelys

Total Time: 3 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 celery, chopped
• 1 yellow onion, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves
• 8 cups chicken stock
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 large tomatoes, diced
• 1 lb sliced okra
• 1 cup chopped cooked chicken
• 1 lb lump crabmeat
• 1 lb large shrimp
• 1/2 lemon, juiced
• 1 dash hot sauce (recommended ( tabasco)
• 1 dash worcestershire sauce

Recipe

• 1 in a heavy dutch oven, heat oil. add the flour and stir and cook until the mixture darkens to a brown color, about the shade of peanut butter.
• 2 add the celery, onion, green bell pepper and garlic and saute until tender.
• 3 whisk in chicken stock, add the ketchup, chopped tomato, and okra.
• 4 let simmer for 2 1/2 hours.
• 5 about 10 minutes before serving time add cooked chicken, crabmeat and shrimp and simmer.
• 6 add lemon juice, hot sauce and worcestershire.
• 7 serve over rice.