Seafood Gumbo

• 1 baking hen, boiled and boned, save stock
• 1 1/2 sticks butter
• 3/4 c. flour
• 1/2 bell pepper, chopped
• 2 c. celery, chopped
• 2 c. green onions and tops, chopped
• 1 c. tomato sauce
• 1 can stewed tomatoes
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 can crab claw meat
• salt to taste
• 1 1/2 lb. shrimp, cleaned and deveined
• 1 pkg. frozen sliced okra
• 2 c. parsley, chopped fine

1. Saute vegetables in 1/2 stick butter.
2. Make roux of flour and 1 stick butter.
3. Add tomatoes and tomato sauce.
4. Add to vegetables. Add seasonings, chicken, crab and chicken stock.
5. Cook, covered, slowly for 45 minutes.
6. Stir often.
7. Add shrimp, okra and parsley. Let cook for 15 minutes.
8. Let sit on stove; lid on, burner off, until ready to serve, at least one hour.
9. Heat before serving. Taste for salt.
10. Ladle over rice in individual bowls.
11. Freezes well!!

baking hen, butter, flour, bell pepper, celery, green onions, tomato sauce, tomatoes, bay leaf, crab claw meat, salt, shrimp, okra, parsley

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=542575 (may not work)