Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Seafood Gumbo
by Lora Norman
Seafood Gumbo
Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Seafood Gumbo is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Seafood Gumbo is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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
Take bacon drippings
Prepare flour
Prepare Vegetable mix
Get chopped celery
Make ready large green bell pepper
Get garlic
Take andouille sausage
Take yellow onion
Make ready Gumbo base
Prepare water
Take beef bouillon
Prepare sugar
Get Salt
Prepare hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
Make ready Cajon Seasoning
Get bay leaves
Prepare dried thyme leaves
Make ready can stewed tomatoes
Prepare can tomato sauce
Get gumbo file powder
Prepare Seafood mix
Take distilled white vinegar
Get lump crabmeat
Prepare uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
Get Worcester shire sauce
Get 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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