New Orleans chefs share the easier, hands-off oven method for making rich, deeply flavored roux—no nonstop stirring required.

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 ...

In "Bibi's Gulf Coast Kitchen," columnist Bibi Hutchings takes you on a culinary journey across the coastal south. Come for the great food writing, stay for the delicious recipes. Similar to music, ...

Although I'm a Jersey girl, I do have a good gumbo recipe. The trick to this is making the roux, which is the thickening agent. In this recipe, the roux is made with flour and oil, instead of flour ...

Adding cooked chicken to the gumbo, which was made in a microwave oven. (Photo by David Grunfeld / Nola.com / The Times-Picayune) The first person I ever saw make a roux was a guy who grew up in ...

A basic recipe may never grow old, but the method of cooking it might. For example, black iron kettles have been used for cooking roux for hundreds of years. A microwave oven updates roux-making to ...