Making a roux might sound complicated, but it's actually SO easy. Once you know how to make one, you'll be in love with all the things it can do. It's the perfect base for luxuriously smooth cheese ...

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Making roux on the stovetop takes at least 45 minutes of continuous cooking and stirring, and my arm gets tired. Every year, I make turkey gumbo with my leftover Thanksgiving bird, and every year I ...

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This may be considered sacrilege to some people, but this helpful hint is a shortcut to roux for making a stew. Place all of your “holy trinity” (veggies) and your meat for the stew in the pot, and ...

A few years ago, I figured out that I have cooked more than 10,000 pots of soup, chowder, stew, gumbo or chili. As a dish, soup is very economical, versatile and easy to make. There are three things ...

While roux might sound like a fancy cooking term, it's actually a simple mixture of fat and flour used to thicken sauces, gravies, and, yes, gumbo. While roux is used in classic French cuisine, it ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Making a roux is the first step for everything from fettuccine Alfredo or a traditional Croque Madame, to a hearty chicken and andouille gumbo ...

Learning to cook is kind of like learning to read in that, once you have the foundations down, you can create just about anything. If you’ll go with this analogy, you can think of roux as a single ...