Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Seafood Gumbo is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Seafood Gumbo is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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