Anybody here ever eat or cook a boiled egg gumbo?

Never done boiled eggs as I'm not a fan of them, but I love putting in whisked eggs to make an egg drop-esque gumbo. Makes for a good breakfast with leftover gumbo.

I always crack 3-4 eggs in a Chicken and Sausage Gumbo to finish it off

We only put eggs in seafood, not chicken and sausage. I love the intense flavor of dried shrimp too.

I've only seen it once and it freaked me out.

My mom puts boiled eggs in spaghetti...freaks me out too

My MaMa always did that for supper. Shed cook a big gumbo for lunch and if all the meat was eaten she would boil some eggs, peel them and add it to the gumbo to stretch it.


I work with some Indian (feather) folks who make a roux with sweet peas then add sliced boiled eggs and eat it over rice.

My grandmother would do it every now and then. I don't ever remember it in chicken and sausage or okra gumbo, only seafood when she didn't have quite enough seafood to go around.

Definitely a protein stretcher sort of thing; there never was a shortage of chicken, sausage, or okra because my grandparents grew or made their own, but seafood wasn't something that was readily available to them, so my grandmother had to make do with what she had on hand sometimes. Also, like someone else said, egg stew was on the menu sometimes or a meatball and egg stew if she had just a little bit of ground beef left she needed to use up.

My grandmother used to make an oyster and egg stew usually for Friday lunch during lent.

She would make a "blonde roux" add trinity and chopped boiled eggs and then thin it a bit with the oyster liquor. A couple of minutes before serving she would add the oysters and chopped green onions.

This was served with french bread and was absolutely the best thing I ever ate!

I have tried to make it a few times, but it just doesn't come out like Maw Maw's. I really miss her and wish that she had written her recipes down or I would have been interested in cooking enough to pay attention to how she prepared things.

My family always cooked shrimp and egg gumbo. Delicious! You can also thicken it up more for a shrimp and egg stew.
It was pretty common in Vermilion parish.

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boiled eggs in spaghetti

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My step mom is a dago, she's always done this

My grandmaw did that also. I forgot about that I will try it out next time I make a little pot.