Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, seafood gumbo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Seafood Gumbo is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Gumbo is something which I have loved my whole life.

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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:
  1. Prepare Roux ingredients
  2. Make ready 3/4 cup bacon drippings
  3. Make ready 1 cup flour
  4. Make ready Vegetable mix
  5. Prepare 1 cup chopped celery
  6. Prepare 1 large green bell pepper
  7. Take 2 cloves garlic
  8. Prepare 1 pound andouille sausage
  9. Take 1 yellow onion
  10. Get Gumbo base
  11. Get 3 quarts water
  12. Take 6 cubes beef bouillon
  13. Take 1 tablespoon sugar
  14. Get to taste Salt
  15. Prepare 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
  16. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
  17. Get 4 bay leaves
  18. Get 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
  19. Make ready 14.5 ounce can stewed tomatoes
  20. Prepare 6 ounce can tomato sauce
  21. Make ready 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
  22. Take Seafood mix
  23. Prepare 2 tablespoons distilled white vinegar
  24. Prepare 1 pound lump crabmeat
  25. Take 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
  26. Prepare 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
  27. Take 2 teaspoons gumbo file powder
Steps to make Seafood Gumbo:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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