Guyanese Style Soup "Gumbo" #easyrecipes #food #family

shrimp

🥗Healthier: chicken breast

💰Cheaper: canned tuna

Canned tuna is more affordable and still provides protein.

okra

🥗Healthier: green beans

💰Cheaper: frozen peas

Green beans are lower in calories and frozen peas are budget-friendly.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: pork

Tofu is a plant-based alternative and pork can be less expensive.

fish

🥗Healthier: seitan

💰Cheaper: canned sardines

Seitan offers a meat-like texture and canned sardines are cost-effective.

Season chicken with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

Melt butter in a pot and add half of the chopped onion; sauté until fragrant.

Add the seasoned chicken to the pot and brown on all sides.

Add enough water to cover the chicken and bring to a boil.

Add soaked black-eyed peas to the pot and cook for 15 minutes.

Add frozen cassava to the pot, as it takes longer to cook than sweet potato and plantain.

After 10 minutes, add coconut milk to the pot.

Add sweet potato to the pot after the cassava has boiled for a while.

Prepare dumpling mixture with flour, baking powder, butter, salt, brown sugar, and milk.

Form dumplings and drop them into the boiling soup.

Add frozen spinach to the pot and let everything boil for an additional 10 minutes.

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