Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way 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 popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Seafood Gumbo is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Get Roux ingredients
- Make ready 3/4 cup bacon drippings
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Make ready Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Prepare 1 large green bell pepper
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 pound andouille sausage
- Prepare 1 yellow onion
- Make ready Gumbo base
- Make ready 3 quarts water
- Take 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Make ready 1 tablespoon sugar
- Get to taste Salt
- Get 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Get 4 bay leaves
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Get 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Prepare 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Make ready 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Make ready Seafood mix
- Take 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Prepare 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Get 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
- Prepare 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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