I asked a while back, but didn't get a difinitive answer.
Where do you coonies stand on okra in the gumbo?
I love okra in a chicken & sausage gumbo. I don't make it that way often bc my kids don't like it so i'll usually put me some gumbo in a small pot on the side and ad some okra to it. Around Ville Platte, La the old timers didn't use roux in their gumbo. File and okra were the 2 thickening agents.
Lol. My gumbo has tomatoes and okra and taste awesome.... but I’m not from Louisiana so I can’t call it gumbo by some law. They get very defensive about the okra reguardless of the taste
They are scared of it.... like a vampire and garlic
Around Ville Platte, La the old timers didn't use roux in their gumbo. File and okra were the 2 thickening agents.
My wife, a full blown Cajun from South La, makes an okra chicken and sausage gumbo without roux, but she also makes the traditional prairie Cajun gumbo with dark roux and no okra (or tomatoes). It’s all good to me, even many of the non-traditional variations!
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