Seafood Gumbo
Seafood Gumbo

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Seafood Gumbo is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Seafood Gumbo is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started 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. Take Roux ingredients
  2. Make ready 3/4 cup bacon drippings
  3. Prepare 1 cup flour
  4. Make ready Vegetable mix
  5. Make ready 1 cup chopped celery
  6. Prepare 1 large green bell pepper
  7. Prepare 2 cloves garlic
  8. Prepare 1 pound andouille sausage
  9. Take 1 yellow onion
  10. Prepare Gumbo base
  11. Get 3 quarts water
  12. Get 6 cubes beef bouillon
  13. Take 1 tablespoon sugar
  14. Take to taste Salt
  15. Prepare 2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce (Louisiana hot sauce)
  16. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon Cajon Seasoning
  17. Get 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. Prepare 1 pound lump crabmeat
  25. Take 3 pounds uncooked medium shrimp (peeled and deveined)
  26. Make ready 2 tablespoons Worcester shire sauce
  27. Make ready 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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