Chicken and Okra Gumbo

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup flour, all-purpose
• 1 each chicken cut up, four pounds
• 2 pounds okra cut up
• 2 medium tomatoes chopped
• 2 large onions chopped
• 1 each sweet red bell peppers
• 2 teaspoons parsley leaves chopped
• 2 teaspoons scallions, spring or green onions tops, chopped
• 1 x salt
• 1 x black pepper

1. Brown the chicken in the oil.
2. Take the chicken out.
3. Add the flour to the oil and make a medium brown roux.
4. Add the onions, bell pepper, tomatoes, and okra and cook slowly until the okra stops roping, maybe an hour.
5. Add 3 quarts of water, slowly.
6. Add the chicken.
7. Cook slowly until the chicken is almost ready to fall off the bones, maybe an hour and a half.
8. Add water as needed.
9. Salt and pepper to taste.
10. Add parsley and onion tops and serve over rice.

vegetable oil, flour, chicken, okra, tomatoes, onions, sweet red bell peppers, parsley, scallions, salt, black pepper

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/chicken-okra-gumbo-40864 (may not work)