Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Seafood Gumbo is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Seafood Gumbo is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
This delightful Seafood Gumbo is full of shrimp and crab and it has a nice spicy kick. In addition to shrimp and crab, this Seafood Gumbo is also flavored with the Holy Trinity- (onions, bell pepper, and. Seafood gumbo is one of those dishes that tastes better over time once all of the ingredients have a chance to In our seafood gumbo recipe, we combine flour and oil until it's smooth and deep in color.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook seafood gumbo using 27 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Prepare Roux ingredients
- Take 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Get Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Make ready 1 large green bell pepper
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic
- Get 1 pound andouille sausage
- Get 1 yellow onion
- Take Gumbo base
- Take 3 quarts water
- Get 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Take 1 tablespoon sugar
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Get 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Prepare 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Make ready 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Prepare 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Get Seafood mix
- Get 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Take 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Make ready 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Take 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
- Make ready 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
The crab boil is the key ingredient - do not omit it. Every good gumbo starts with mixture of butter and flour called a roux. In this time, you should be stirring. Plus, this Seafood Gumbo recipe is ready in under an hour!!
Instructions 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.
This recipe was originally published in I fell in love with seafood gumbo many, many years ago. With it's dark flavorful roux, fresh seafood. This is a great seafood stew "gumbo". This would be great with mussels and some pieces of cod Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste are often used in gumbo and jambalaya. New Orleans Gumbo has been called the greatest contribution of Louisiana kitchens to American cuisine.
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