Adding Rice To Haitian Gumbo

"Hi, this is David from the Big Easy Catering Company in Santa Barbara, California for expertvillage.com. Today we are making a Cajun gumbo and we are down to sort of home stretch here. We got all of our ingredients in except the shrimp that we peeled earlier. So we will slide those right in, they don't take very long to cook and we will stir those in a little bit. Then you put in the rice now we are going to use, most people in Louisiana there is a couple of ways in doing this. Most of the time they will put rice on the side and just pour the gumbo over or around it. My way in doing it is I actually put some rice right into the gumbo not thick like jambalaya but about a cup in a half with this amount of liquid and it soaks in all rice, it soaks in all that good flavor. That is my preference for this type of thing. So you just pour your rice and this is actually five minute rice. Of course it doesn't take very long so you just stir that in or you could actually use regular just cooking time is longer probably 20-30 minutes depending what is on the package."