Chicken Gumbo

Ingredients

• 4 pound baking hen 
• 1 cup celery chopped
• 6 servings rice hot cooked
• 0.3 cup parsley fresh chopped
• 1 medium size bell pepper green chopped
• 4 cups okra sliced
• 2 large onions chopped
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper 
• 1 tablespoon salt 
• 0.5 cup salt pork drippings 
• 8 medium tomatoes peeled quartered
• 2 quarts water 

Equipment

• dutch oven

Directions

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