Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, seafood gumbo. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Seafood Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Gumbo is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
- Take Roux ingredients
- Take 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Take Vegetable mix
- Make ready 1 cup chopped celery
- Make ready 1 large green bell pepper
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Prepare 1 pound andouille sausage
- Take 1 yellow onion
- Make ready Gumbo base
- Prepare 3 quarts water
- Prepare 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Make ready 1 tablespoon sugar
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Take 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Prepare 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Make ready 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Take Seafood mix
- Get 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Prepare 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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