 Y'all welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. In this video, I am going to share with you how to make an easy vegan gumbo recipe that is going to help you on your fibroid shrinking or on your healing journey. It's good for if you're looking for just some comfort food or something to keep you warm on these cold winter days that we're experiencing right now. This recipe was inspired by one of my clients, Veronica. She asked me for some soup and stew recipes for the winter months. I was trying to get these videos out sooner, but as life has it, it didn't work out so I'm doing it now, so I hope that works for y'all. So now I'm gonna take you into my kitchen so we can make the gumbo. So let's get into this recipe. Everything that I'm using will be listed down in the description box. So the ingredients that I use for this recipe are staple ingredients that I keep in my house, like canned beans and onions and peppers and carrots and celery and diced tomatoes, herbs and spices. The okra that you see there is not something that I keep in my house on a regular basis so I did have to buy that special for this recipe. But everything you see here, I have on hand on a regular basis. All those herbs and spices, it's called stocking your cabinets so that you can pull together healthy recipes as you need them. You first wanna start off with your heavy soup pot. This one is at least six quarts, it may even be eight, but you need a minimum of a six quart pot in order to cook this dish to have plenty of room in the pot so that it's not too much food for the pot. And I'm gonna start off by adding some water to the pot and heating that water up so I can start to get my vegetables sauteed. You guys know I do not cook my food with oil. It is not good for women's health to cook with oil. It's frying your food and we wanna stay away from frying food. First we're gonna add our garlic to the pot. You don't have to use garlic if you don't like garlic but I happen to love garlic so we're gonna add the garlic. I would even add more but I figured this was enough for this dish. You see the water starting to bubble and as the water starts to bubble, you're going to be able to toss the vegetables around in the pan and they are going to saute just like if they were in oil. Next I'm gonna add my onions. I love using yellow onions like fadalia onions because they to me add more flavor and you can use whatever kind of onions you have on hand but the yellow fadalia onions are the ones that I like to use most. Then we're gonna stir those, move them around the pan while they get translucent just like they would if you were cooking them with oil. Next I'm gonna add my mushrooms and today I am using shiitake mushrooms and the reason I'm choosing shiitake mushrooms is because they have great texture. They're almost chewy. They almost make it feel like you're eating meat as far as the texture is concerned. Of course it doesn't have the same texture but it gives you a hearty taste to the soup if you will and you just mix it around, keep on sauteing. The fire I have under the pot is pretty, it's like medium high just to get those vegetables cooked and so that the flavors start to come out and at this point the flavor in the room is starting to smell really yummy. Adding a bit more water so that the food does not stick to the pan. Next I'm gonna add some celery and I chose all these vegetables because I wanted a specific texture for this soup. Give it a bit of a stir to move the vegetables around so that they can cook evenly. Next I'm gonna add green peppers and red peppers. You can use whatever kind of peppers you'd like. And after a bit of a stir we're going to add our next ingredient which is carrots. We'll give this a bit of a stir to make all these flavors come together. We add a bit more water to keep it from sticking. Now it's time to add those spices. There's the Cajun seasoning that gives it that gumbo flavor. We're gonna add the rest of the spices like thyme, Mrs. Dash garlic seasoning, black pepper to taste and we're gonna stir it all together and don't forget that all the herbs and spices that I add to this recipe will be listed below in the description box with the complete recipe. Stir until you have everything well combined. Next you add your diced tomatoes. Stir until well combined. Add your white beans and stir until well combined. And then we're adding our red beans and the key to this recipe is just to keep on stirring after you layer each bit of ingredients in and then you add the water to the pot and then we're going to turn up the fire so we can bring it to a boil. If you add the lid it'll help it come to a boil much quicker. I'm gonna give it a little check and give it a little bit of stir to see if it's almost boiling but it needs another few minutes to come to a boil. As you can see it's simmering so I'm gonna add the okra and I add them at the last minute because I don't want them to be mushy or slimy so I'm just stirring them in there as the pot is simmering. I also added the bay leaf. I must have forgot to record that part but the bay leaf also gives the gumbo a wonderful flavor as well. I'm gonna let the pot simmer for about another five minutes. I like my vegetables to be crunchy so if you like more tender vegetables let yours cook a little while longer. Now I'm gonna add my lemon juice. I think this adds a huge flavor boost to the soup. I add lemon to a lot of my soups and I think it is one of the keys to making soups taste really good especially whenever you're trying to transition into this lifestyle and the foods are tasting different for you. Lemon helps your taste buds adjust to the flavorings of healthy food. Only thing left to do is to fish out the bay leaves because you do not want to eat the bay leaves it won't taste very good but it is definitely good for flavor. So now it's time to taste the soup just to make sure that it doesn't need any more spices and it is perfect. I don't know how I do this. I just come up with the combinations of spices and they come out perfectly. The last thing we need to do is serve the soup. I think there is six servings in the soup depending on how much you eat per serving so four to six servings. It really tastes good. It's very flavorful and it has a lot of texture which is what I look for when I'm looking for something that tastes like a comfort food without having to eat things like potatoes and rice and quinoa and all of that stuff. Now quinoa is not too bad to eat. Quinoa would actually be good with this gumbo if you just wanted something extra. So what do you think? Are you going to try the recipe? If you want to know more about what I eat, you can follow me on Instagram. There's all kinds of pictures of the foods that I'm eating from day to day. I've been trying to post a picture at least once a day just so that you guys can see the variety of foods that I eat. I also have a seven day meal plan that you can purchase. It has recipes for foods that you can eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack for seven days. The link is down in the description box below. If you need to know what foods to avoid to help you shrink fibroids, naturally there is a foods to avoid list link down in the description box. It is free, download that. Also, if you're having trouble figuring out what you're supposed to do on this journey, you can also sign up for a free 10 minute session with me. I'd be glad to talk to you to help you. Yeah, at least on the right track or pointed in the right direction as to how to get your health journey kicked off. Well, one more thing before I go, I want to encourage you to continue to work when you're diet. Eat as clean as you possibly can. Follow the guidelines that I present to you each and every week and I'm telling you, if you follow them, you will start to feel better. Some people heal faster than others but keep plugging at it and you will get better. There is, if you're feeding your body with healthy, delicious foods that are as close to the way God made them as possible, your body has no choice but to fall in line with health. So, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, share it with a friend and don't forget to subscribe. Until next time, y'all, take care.