Creole Gumbo Pot

Recipe Cuisine: Appetizers
Recipe Category: Appetizers
Recipe Serves: 6

Recipes Ingredients:

1 sm Eggplant
2 c Boiling Chicken stock
2 ts Salt
1 cn Tomatoes in tomato juice
3 tb Olive oil
-(8 oz)
1 lg Onion, chopped
2 tb Long Grain white rice
1 Red pepper, seeded, diced
8 oz Peeled cooked medium-size
1 Garlic clove, crushed
-shrimp, thawed if frozen
2 ts Paprika
Salt to taste
1/2 ts Hot Chili powder
Fresh ground pepper to taste
4 oz Fresh okra
Fresh dill sprigs (opt)
3/4 c Frozen corn, thawed

Recipe Instructions:

Trim stalk end from eggplant. Cut in 1/2" pieces and place in a colander. Sprinkle with 2 teaspoons salt; let stand 30 minutes. Rinse under cold water and drain well. Heat olive oil in a saucepan. Add eggplant, onion, red pepper and Garlic and fry over low heat 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in paprika and Chili powder and cook gently 2 minutes. Trim stalk ends from okra and discard. Cut okra in quarters. Add okra, corn, Chicken stock and tomatoes to eggplant mixture. Break up tomatoes with a spoon. Stir in rice, cover and simmer gently 25 minutes or until Vegetables and Rice are tender. Add shrimp to mixture and heat through 5 minutes, stirring ocasionally. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with dill sprigs, if desired. VARIATION: Stir in 2/3 cup half-and-half and heat through just before serving.