Hearty Vegetable Gumbo

• nonstick cooking spray
• 12 cup chopped onion
• 12 cup chopped green bell pepper
• 14 cup chopped celery
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans no-salt-added stewed tomatoes
• 2 cups no-salt-added tomato juice
• 1 (15 ounce) can red beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
• 14 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
• 14 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 12 cups uncooked quick-cooking brown rice or 1 12 cups white rice, if prefered
• 1 (10 ounce) packagechopped frozen okra, thawed

1. Spray 4-quart Dutch oven with cooking spray; heat over medium heat until hot.
2. Add onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic.
3. Cook and stir 3 minutes or until crisp-tender.
4. Add stewed tomatoes, tomato juice, beans, parsley, oregano, pepper sauce and bay leaves.
5. Bring to a boil over high heat.
6. Add rice.
7. Cover; reduce heat to medium-low.
8. Simmer 15 minutes or until rice is tender.
9. Add okra; cook, covered, 5 minutes more or until okra is tender.
10. Remove and discard bay leaves.

nonstick cooking spray, onion, green bell pepper, celery, garlic, salt, nosalt, red beans, parsley, oregano, hot pepper, bay leaves, brown rice, frozen okra

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/hearty-vegetable-gumbo-145138 (may not work)