President Roosevelt's Gumbo Z'herbes
"Henrietta Nesbitt said this was a cheap soup and FDR s White House was trying out lots of extending recipes, I know it's a healthy flavorful dish that takes a while to makefile powder wante part of original recipe so feel free not to add,you can also addturnip greens and collard greens just make sure it's an odd number of the greens used ,its unlucky for even numbers"
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (812.2 g)
- Calories 1027.7
- Total Fat - 55.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 16.7 g
- Cholesterol - 159.4 mg
- Sodium - 5795.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 65.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.7 g
- Sugars - 2.1 g
- Protein - 64.5 g
- Calcium - 182.1 mg
- Iron - 8.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 16.2 mg
- Thiamin - 2.9 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Wash greens very well so no sand is on them
Step 2
Chop the radishes off and save for later
Step 3
In boiling water, Add bacon.
Step 4
Blanch
Step 5
Cabbage 10 minutes
Step 6
Rest of greens 5 minutes
Step 7
Take greens out and put in bowl save broth
Step 8
Heat lard in large stock pot
Step 9
Add onions,green onions, radishes that have been chopped
Step 10
Add the greens
Step 11
Fry the drained chopped greens
Step 12
When well fried add flour
Step 13
Brown the flour (can add browned flour)
Step 14
Add greens broth
Step 15
Add ham hocks
Step 16
Add herbs and rest of seasoning
Step 17
Cook on simmer for 2 hours stirring occasionally
Tips
No special items needed.