Classic Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Recipe

If you aren’t eating this Classic Chicken and Sausage Gumbo while leaning over the sink because there aren’t enough bowls clean, you’re missing the point. My grandmother—God rest her loud mouth—used to say roux waits for no one, and she meant it. The kitchen smells like burnt flour and hope, that heavy, dark chocolate color clinging to the wooden spoon while my kids argue over who gets the last piece of bread. This isn’t pretty food. This is linoleum-sticky, fog-up-your-glasses, noisy business. The kind of dinner where someone always spills the ice water and nobody cares because the okra’s doing … Find out more