Chicken Gumbo

Ingredients

• chicken thighs

  with skin
  4 unit
• chicken drumsticks

  with skin
  4 unit
• sea salt & fresh ground black pepper
  1 unit
• paprika
  1 tsp
• cayenne pepper
  1 tsp
• olive oil
  1 unit
• smoked sausage (such as andouille

  fresh chorizo, slice thickly)
  14 oz
• smoked bacon

  roughly chopped
  4 slices
• onion

  peeled and diced
  1 large
• green bell pepper

  seeded and chopped
  1 unit
• yellow bell pepper

  seeded and chopped
  1 unit
• celery stalks

  trimmed and diced
  4 unit
• generous tbsp all-purpose flour
  3 unit
• of garlic

  peeled and minced
  6 cloves
• sweet potatoes

  peeled and chopped roughly (classic recipes do not use sweet potatoes, they use regular ones)
  2 1/4 lbs
• of fresh thyme

  leaves picked
  6 sprigs
• fresh bay leaves
  4 unit
• hot chicken broth
  1 1/2 quarts
• bunch fresh curly parsley
  1 small
• scallions

  trimmed and finely sliced
  4 unit