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  • Serves: 6 Servings

Creole Gumbo Pot

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Category: Appetizers

 Ingredients List

  • 1 sm Eggplant
  • 2 ts Salt
  • 3 tb Olive oil
  • 1 lg Onion, chopped
  • 1 Red pepper, seeded, diced
  • 1 Garlic clove, crushed
  • 2 ts Paprika
  • 1/2 ts Hot chili powder
  • 4 oz Fresh okra
  • 3/4 c Frozen corn, thawed
  • 2 c Boiling chicken stock
  • 1 cn Tomatoes in tomato juice
  • -(8 oz)
  • 2 tb Long grain white rice
  • 8 oz Peeled cooked medium-size
  • -shrimp, thawed if frozen
  • Salt to taste
  • Fresh ground pepper to taste
  • Fresh dill sprigs (opt)

 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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