How to Make Delicious Seafood Gumbo

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you a way to prepare a special dish, Seafood Gumbo. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Seafood Gumbo Recipe.

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

Seafood Gumbo instructions

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..