Gumbo Southern Recipes

"From the Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook. This is a much lower calorie and fat version of a beloved classic, made in a slow-cooker! As written, it's very mild; so if you like it hot, you will need to add cayenne or chile flakes to taste. Cooking time assumes you will cook on low; if you cook on high time will be 5 hours."

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Ingredients: frozen cut okra, frozen corn kernels...

"A smokey, spicy, seafood Jambalaya. I made with brown rice because that is what we enjoy, please do use your favorite rice but adjust liquid and cooking times accordingly. Do check out Recipe #477279, it is what gives the smokiness."

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Ingredients: andouille sausages, catfish fillets...

"If you ike comfort food, then this is for you.The minced peppers really bring the taste of this Gumbo all together. It can get spicy just from the Hot Sausage, but it is so good. Amount of ingredients dont have to be followed to the letter but to be used as a guide. I have added corn,okra,and lima beans on occasion. Have fun and add what you think..."

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Ingredients: dried red pepper flakes, diced tomatoes...

"Duck and Andouille Gumbo, I prefer using wild duck but if that is not available to you store bought duck will work fine. The recipe calls for one duck, that is one large store bought duck. I used wild wood ducks when I made this gumbo originally and due to their small size I ended up using three. Either way, duck makes a really good gumbo. Cooking..."

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Ingredients: andouille sausages, duck stock...

"The way I remember her making it. Please feel free to add or subtract ingredients as you see fit."

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Ingredients: onions, garlic cloves, salt...

"This delicious Low-Cal New Orlean's style Seafood Gumbo comes in right at about 250 calories per serving. I'm not positive exactly how many fat grams in total, however, the fat content is also pretty low for a gumbo. Make sure to have plenty of your favorite hot sauce on hand to really spice it up!"

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, shrimp...

"This seafood gumbo is adapted from Poppy Tooker’s famous recipe. If you are from New Orleans then you probably have heard of Poppy, but if not you may recall her from Bobby Flay’s Food Network show “Throwdown” were she used this recipe to shame and humiliate Mr. Flay."

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, shrimp...

"This is the easiest best tasting gumbo that you would swear came from a real roux. It is a fast delicious staple in my house weekly and can be multiplied easily for larger parties or used with seafood. Just don't tell anyone your secret ... shhh."

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Ingredients: pepper, andouille sausages...

"This is a scaled-down version of the gumbo from the famed Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland. It's the best I have ever eaten. (Originally found on Grub Post.)"

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Ingredients: diced tomatoes, gumbo file...

"Gumbo is perhaps the signature dish, a cross cultural dish, of both cuisines, Cajun and Creole. Creole cooking is city cooking: refined, delicate and luxurious, developed and originally prepared by servants while Cajun cooking is French cooking techniques on a host of new ingredients unknown from the Cajuns stays in Nova Scotia and France, exotic forms..."

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Ingredients: andouille sausages, frozen cut okra...

"This hearkens back to the old Acadian villages in the South, where Fridays were "wash days" for the women and no meat was eaten. This vegan, hearty stew of spicy lentils, brown rice and tons of veggies will have you wishing every day was "wash day"!"

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Ingredients: low sodium vegetable broth, cremini mushrooms...