Chicken, beef hot links and brocolli stew
The day before yesterday on the “Quick Fix Meals” with Robin Miller I saw a recipe for chicken and andouille gumbo with okra. Sounded like a good recipe. I love gumbo. So I downloaded the recipe, made up my shopping list and went to the store. Not only did they not have andouille sausage, the butcher I asked had never even heard of it. How the heck can you be involved in food and still not have heard of andouille? I was raised in freakin' Arizona and I know what it is, and I'm no food professional! And the frozen section also did not have okra.
Hmph. Time to adjust. Instead of andouille, I picked up some generic hot sausages. Instead of okra, I picked up some frozen brocolli. Aside from that I followed the recipe and threw it in the crockpot for the quick cook version. The calorically significant ingredients I used were:
| Hillshire Farm Beef Hot Links, 2 | 360 |
| Chicken breast, 15 oz | 437 |
| Celery 5 oz | 20 |
| Green pepper 4.5 oz | 27 |
| Vegetarian stock, 2 cups | 30 |
| Tomato juice, 2 cups | 80 |
| Total: | 954 |
Divided into four the recipe yields 239 calories per serving.
Tasty! I now realize that a flavor in gumbo that I had previous thought was file powder was actually thyme.
Follow-up: the next day the soup was even tastier.