Chicken Gumbo

• 1 (4- to 5-pound) baking hen, cut up
• 1/2 cup salt pork drippings
• 2 large onions, chopped
• 1 medium-size green pepper, chopped
• 4 cups sliced okra
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 2 quarts water
• 8 medium tomatoes, peeled and quartered
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• Hot cooked rice
• File powder (optional)

1. Brown chicken in drippings in a large Dutch oven. Remove chicken, and set aside. Reserve drippings in Dutch oven.
2. Add onion, green pepper, okra, celery, and parsley to Dutch oven; cook over low heat 30 minutes, stirring frequently. Return chicken to Dutch oven.
3. Add water, tomatoes, salt, and pepper, stirring well. Simmer, uncovered, 2 1/2 hours or until chicken is tender. Remove chicken from gumbo; bone and chop meat. Return meat to gumbo, stirring well. Cook until thoroughly heated.
4. Serve gumbo over rice. Add a small amount of file powder to each serving, if desired.

baking hen, salt pork, onions, green pepper, okra, celery, parsley, water, tomatoes, salt, pepper, rice

Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-gumbo (may not work)