Chicken & Okra Gumbo

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Ingredients:

1 cup oil
1 cup flour
1 chicken, cut up, about four pounds
2 lb okra, cut up
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
2 large onions, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
2 tsp parsley, chopped
2 tsp green onion tops, chopped
1 salt
1 black pepper

Instructions:

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

Servings: 1

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Chicken is ideal
for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

"If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday." Henri IV of France, in a conversation with the Duke of Savoy