ABOUT OUR THE 'BIG EASY' CAJUN GUMBO
- 1 Serving Backpacking Meal
- Dietary Considerations: meat dish (chicken); gluten conscious
- all-natural dehydrated and freeze-dried ingredients
- 410 calories
- 39 g protein
- Meal Net Weight: 4.1 oz | 117 g
- Meal Includes: seasoned gumbo with rice mix; broth concentrate
- Required: boiling water
- Recommended: long handled spoon; Cook-in-Cozy™
- Insider's Tip: diced shelf-stable smoked sausage takes this dish up a notch!
Remove
natural desiccant.
Add
2 cups (16 oz / 473 ml) of boiling water to the pouch and stir well.
Press
air from pouch; seal and shake.
ENJOY!
your 'Big Easy' Cajun Gumbo!
Ingredients & Nutrition
Ingredients:
White Rice, Cage-Free Chicken, Organic Chicken Stock, Gravy Base (food starchmodified, palm oil, enriched bleached flour, maltodextrin, salt, corn syrup solids, whey, sugar, buttermilk, nonfat milk, black pepper, mono & diglycerides, sodium caseinate, lactalbumin, dicalcium phosphate, color added), Turkey Stock, Potato Starch, Organic Tomatoes, Okra, Shallots, Red and Green Bell Peppers, Spices, Broth Seasoning (salt, sugar, soybean oil, natural chicken flavor, turmeric, chicken broth, annatto powder, natural flavor, spices, onion, parsley), Organic Whole Kernel Yellow Corn, Tomatoes, White Onion, Organic Fire-Roasted Yellow Corn, Green Bell Pepper, Ground Sassafras Leaves, Organic Carrot Granules, Natural Mesquite Smoke, Celery, Andouille Seasoning (paprika, salt, onion, garlic, sugar, spices), Okra Powder, Organic Yellow Onion, Spice, Bay Leaves, Green Onions, Organic Chives
Special Notes:
CONTAINS: Milk, Soy, Wheat
PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT HANDLES WHEAT, EGG, MILK, SOYBEAN, PEANUT AND TREE NUT PRODUCTS.
Press Articles
"This hearty, tasty glop is one of the best dehydrated meals I’ve ever had,” declares one editor. A hands-down favorite, the gumbo jumble of chicken, okra—okra!—tomatoes, bell peppers, and rice is nearly foolproof to make: “Add too much water, and it was a nice soup; not enough and it was a rich stew,” says another tester.
— Backpacker Magazine Editor's Choice/Gear Guide, Spring 2011
Take the chill out of a winter evening with this hearty, delicious, stew-like entree. Packed with white-meat chicken, long-grain rice and tons of veggies, this savory gumbo had our staff fighting over the last ladle one cold night while camped on a glacier in Norway. “I’d never guess it was dehydrated,” says one tester. “The tubes of concentrated turkey broth give it home-cooked flavor.” Prep couldn’t be simpler: Just add water.
— Backpacker Magazine Editor's Choice/Gear Guide, Fall 2010
frequently asked questions
We recommend that all of our hot meals spend time "steep-cooking™" while snuggled in a Cook-in-Cozy™. We find this method promotes a more consistent temperature and steady cook time for Cook-in-Bag™ preparation; and results in a better serving temperature for your meal. When not in use, our Cook-in-Cozy™ folds away nicely in your pack for storage and weighs in at only 1.4oz.
Reviews (22)
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Are you serious? Magic must exist, since there is no way this should have tasted this damn good. I got the sausage to go with it, and it was better than most of the restaurants in my town. I'm used to sodium filled dehydrated getting by, eating because you have to. Who ever looked forward to dinner on the trail before? I'll never buy another brand.
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Hands-down the best trail meal I have every tasted! My family loves this so much that we sometimes break down and cook it at home for a regular dinner! I do recommend adding sausage if you can, as this gives it a more complex taste experience, but it is quite good plain. 5 stars for this one!
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Taste tested this at home cooking it in the bag and it tasted better than even frozen or canned dinners on the supermarket shelf. Tasty, not too salty, hearty, big portion, easy to prepare. And the fact that you get real vegetables while eating in the backcountry? What more could I ask for?
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I hiked 18 miles that day on the Swamp Fox Passage of the Palmetto Trail in the Low Country of SC. Made camp at Cane Gully. As the temperature dropped into the teens, I prepared The Big Easy Gumbo. It was so good it brought tears to my eyes. What a great memory. Thank you Packit Gourmet!
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Just finished a 3 day backpack trip. This was the best meal of the whole trip. I'm going to eat this again!
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Very very good best of all the meals i have had from them
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I brought two of these to the Boundary Waters for dinner one night. I added some venison/pork sausage form Packit and fed four hungry men. The taste was very good and honestly as good as some restaurant gumbo I have had. My trip mates asked me to bring it again next year.
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I didn't care for this at all. I think my problem with it is the smoke flavor completely overwhelms it, and all I could taste was liquid smoke. I think if the smoke flavor was toned down it would be excellent.
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This was our first Pack it Gourmet that we tried at home before hitting the trail. Easy to prepare, excellent flavor, and filling!
Cooking Method
just add water
Water Required
16 ounces
Temperature
boiling water
Cook time
15 minutes
Serving
16 ounces
