From The Princess and the Frog · 2009 · Reconstructed
Tiana's Gumbo
Serve when
Serve it the way it starts — a little girl and her daddy tasting from the pot, then the whole neighborhood showing up with bowls.
In the movie
Theatrical
- 00:04:23 Young Tiana and her father cook gumbo together — she adds the crucial dash of hot sauce, he declares it the best in New Orleans, and the neighborhood shares it on the porch. The memory that powers everything Tiana works for.
The gumbo prologue is the film's whole heart: food as the thing Tiana and her father share, and the dream — "food brings people together from all walks of life" — that becomes Tiana's Palace. Everything she wants is already in that first pot.
Ingredients
Method
- Make the roux dark — chocolate-brown, 25 patient minutes of stirring.
- Add the trinity; cook 5 minutes. Add garlic and andouille.
- Whisk in stock, add bay and thyme, simmer 45 minutes.
- Add the shrimp for the final 5, just until pink and opaque. Season with cayenne — then the dash of hot sauce, tasted by the youngest person in the kitchen.
- Serve over rice with scallions, to as many neighbors as show up.