Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Seafood Gumbo is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Seafood Gumbo is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have seafood gumbo using 27 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Prepare Roux ingredients
- Get 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Take 1 cup flour
- Make ready Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Take 1 large green bell pepper
- Take 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 pound andouille sausage
- Get 1 yellow onion
- Prepare Gumbo base
- Take 3 quarts water
- Make ready 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Prepare 1 tablespoon sugar
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Take 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Make ready 4 bay leaves
- Get 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Prepare 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Take 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Prepare 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Get Seafood mix
- Prepare 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Get 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Prepare 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
- Prepare 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!!
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.
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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