Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Seafood Gumbo is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Seafood Gumbo is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook seafood gumbo using 27 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Take Roux ingredients
- Make ready 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Take Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Prepare 1 large green bell pepper
- Take 2 cloves garlic
- Take 1 pound andouille sausage
- Get 1 yellow onion
- Prepare Gumbo base
- Take 3 quarts water
- Make ready 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Get 1 tablespoon sugar
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Make ready 4 bay leaves
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Get 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Take 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Take 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Get Seafood mix
- Make ready 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Make ready 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Get 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Get 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
- Take 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
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.
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