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Recipe: Appetizing Seafood Gumbo

Seafood Gumbo.

Seafood Gumbo You can cook Seafood Gumbo using 27 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Seafood Gumbo

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

Seafood Gumbo step by step

  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..