Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood gumbo. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Gumbo is one dish that makes Louisiana cuisine so famous. We live across the state line in Texas and can't seem to get enough of this traditional gumbo recipe that features okra, shrimp, spicy seasonings and what is called the holy trinity—onions, green peppers and celery. This recipe calls for seafood, but you could also use chicken, duck or sausage. A recipe for seafood gumbo that contains oysters, crab, and shrimp in a spicy thick broth made with spices, aromatic vegetables, and a dark roux.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood gumbo using 27 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Prepare Roux ingredients
- Get 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Prepare 1 cup flour
- Prepare Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Take 1 large green bell pepper
- Get 2 cloves garlic
- Get 1 pound andouille sausage
- Prepare 1 yellow onion
- Get Gumbo base
- Get 3 quarts water
- Get 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Take 1 tablespoon sugar
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Get 4 bay leaves
- Take 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Prepare 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Take 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Get 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Take Seafood mix
- Make ready 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Take 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Get 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Take 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
- Get 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
This is the best gumbo I've ever had. The crab boil is the key ingredient - do not omit it. The smell will drive you nuts!!! Originating in Louisiana it combines the cuisines and ingredients of several cultures including West African, French, German, and Choctaw.
Steps to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Make roux mix by whisking flour and bacon drippings constantly in sauce pan over medium-low heat until rich mahogany color. Remove from heat until it stops cooking. Usually 8-15 minutes.
- Place celery, onion, green bell pepper, and garlic in food processor on pulse until finely chopped. Mix vegetables and sausage into roux mix and place back over medium-low heat until vegetables are tender. Usually 10-15 minutes.
- Bring water and beef bouillon to boil in large pot (8 quarts or larger). Whisk the roux mix into boiling water once the cubes disolve. Reduce to simmer then mix in the rest of the base: sugar, salt, hot sauce, Cajon seasoning, bay leaves, thyme, stewed tomatoes and tomato sauce. Simmer for 1 hour and add the file gumbo powder at the 45 minute mark.
- Mix in shrimp, crab meat, Worsteshire and white vinegar into gumbo and simmer for another 45 minutes. Mix in file gumbo powder before serving.
The smell will drive you nuts!!! Originating in Louisiana it combines the cuisines and ingredients of several cultures including West African, French, German, and Choctaw. When you think of Louisiana's Cajun and Creole cuisine, gumbo is one of the first dishes that comes to mind. Learn to make seafood gumbo with this iconic Louisiana recipe featuring Louisiana blue crabs and shrimp. And check out this additional instructional video for how to make a roux.
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