Pulled Chicken Gumbo Food

FILE CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• To make chicken stock, place all ingredients into 8-quart stockpot. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, skimming impurities off the top. Remove chicken pieces. Allow chicken to cool, remove meat from bones, and then return bones to stock. Reserve chicken meat for the gumbo. Continue to simmer stock for additional 2 1/2 hours.
• To make gumbo, begin by heating oil in a large pot (preferably an enameled cast iron or other heavy-bottomed pot) and cooking garlic, onions, peppers, and celery until soft and translucent. Add sausage, tomatoes, tomato paste, and stock. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer and add okra and reserved cooked chicken meat. Season with hot pepper sauce, cayenne, salt, pepper, and file. Simmer for 1 hour until flavors meld together. Stir in chopped parsley. Serve over hot rice and garnish with julienned scallions.

PULLED CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large soup pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the chicken on all sides with salt. Add the chicken skin-side down to the pot and cook until browned, about 6 minutes. Flip and cook 2 more minutes; transfer to a plate. Remove the crispy chicken skin, slice and reserve on the side for garnish.
• Lower the heat to medium-low and stir in the flour, cooking until the resulting paste (roux) turns brown and smells of roasted peanuts, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Add the garlic, celery, scallion whites, bell peppers and onions and cook until softened, about 6 minutes. Add the stock, seafood seasoning and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Return the chicken to the pot, bring to a simmer and cook until the meat is falling-off-the-bone tender, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Remove the chicken and set aside until cool enough to handle. Shred into bite-size pieces, discarding the bones, and return the meat to the pot.
• Ladle the gumbo into a soup bowl and garnish with the scallion greens and sliced chicken skin.

INSTANT POT PULLED CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine the tomato sauce, 1/2 cup water, the chiles, tortilla and 1/4 cup cilantro in a blender. Add the chili powder, cumin, sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper; blend until smooth.
• Rub the bottom of an Instant Pot insert with the vegetable oil. Add the chicken breasts to the Instant Pot along with the pureed sauce. Stir to combine. Put on the lid, making sure the steam valve is in the sealing position, and set to cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. When the time is up, press the cancel button and let the steam release naturally, 10 to 15 minutes. (You can also cook frozen chicken breasts in an Instant Pot: Rinse the chicken briefly under cool water and cook on high pressure for 12 minutes.) Remove the lid and transfer the chicken to a bowl.
• Set the pot to sauté at high heat. Bring the sauce to a simmer. Break the chicken into large chunks with two forks and return to the sauce; stir to coat. Simmer, stirring to prevent sticking, until the sauce thickens, about 8 minutes. Turn off the Instant Pot. When the sauce stops bubbling, stir in the chopped cilantro and a squeeze of lime juice; season with salt and pepper. Serve the chicken on buns with lime wedges.

CHICKEN GUMBO

Steps:

• In a large soup pot, add all ingredients.
• Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until all vegetables and rice are tender.
• Remove bay leaf and serve.