Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today.it is William Vasquez. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood gumbo. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Seafood Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Seafood Gumbo is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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
- Get 1 cup flour
- Take Vegetable mix
- Get 1 cup chopped celery
- Make ready 1 large green bell pepper
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 pound andouille sausage
- Prepare 1 yellow onion
- Get Gumbo base
- Make ready 3 quarts water
- Prepare 6 cubes beef bouillon
- Get 1 tablespoon sugar
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
- Prepare 4 bay leaves
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- Make ready 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
- Prepare 6 ounce can tomato sauce
- Take 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
- Get Seafood mix
- Prepare 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
- Make ready 1 pound lump crabmeat
- Take 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
- Prepare 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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