Nana's Chicken Seafood Gumbo Courtesy the Neelys

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 celery, chopped
• 1 yellow onion, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves
• 8 cups chicken stock
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 large tomatoes, diced
• 1 lb sliced okra
• 1 cup chopped cooked chicken
• 1 lb lump crabmeat
• 1 lb large shrimp
• 1/2 lemon, juiced
• 1 dash hot sauce (recommended ( Tabasco)
• 1 dash worcestershire sauce

Directions

1. 1

   In a heavy Dutch oven, heat oil. Add the flour and stir and cook until the mixture darkens to a brown color, about the shade of peanut butter.

2. 2

   Add the celery, onion, green bell pepper and garlic and saute until tender.

3. 3

   Whisk in chicken stock, add the ketchup, chopped tomato, and okra.

4. 4

   Let simmer for 2 1/2 hours.

5. 5

   About 10 minutes before serving time add cooked chicken, crabmeat and shrimp and simmer.

6. 6

   Add lemon juice, hot sauce and Worcestershire.

7. 7

   Serve over rice.