Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sausage and seafood gumbo. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gumbo is a true melting pot dish. Originating in Louisiana it combines the cuisines and ingredients of several cultures including West African, French, German, and Choctaw. It is a top notch comfort stew centered around a roux and the Holy Trinity of onions, celery and bell peppers.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sausage and seafood gumbo using 23 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sausage and Seafood Gumbo:
- Make ready 4 small onion, diced (about 2 cups)
- Make ready 6 celery stalks, diced
- Prepare 2 green bell peppers, diced
- Make ready 16 oz okra, sliced (frozen is fine)
- Take 2 tsp salt
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp cayenne
- Get 1 tsp whit pepper
- Take 1 tsp black pepper
- Get 1 tsp oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp thyme
- Get 4 garlic cloves, minced
- Make ready 1 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 cup flour
- Get 6 cups seafood stock (chicken is fine too)
- Make ready 1 lb andouille sausage
- Take 1 lb shrimp, peeled
- Get 6 oz crab meat, cleaned (or finely diced chicken)
- Take 6 oz oysters in liquor, roughly diced
- Make ready 1/4 cup parsley, minced
- Take 2 green onions, sliced
- Make ready 2 tsp gumbo filé
- Get Hot steamed rice
Sausage and Seafood Gumbo recipe: This is a relatively easy gumbo recipe that is delicious. Optional: Gumbo is traditionally thickened in two ways, the first being the ocra added during cooking. This Cajun stew is packed with shrimp, crawfish & more seafood goodness. To learn more, read "Roux Boy." Seafood and Sausage Gumbo.
Steps to make Sausage and Seafood Gumbo:
- Prepare the onions, celery, bell pepper, and okra in a bowl.
- Add the spices into a small bowl.
- In a skillet, brown the sausage over high heat. If you bought fully cooked sausage, skip this step and go directly to making roux
- Once the sausages are browned, remove them and place on a plate to cool. Don't worry if they're still raw inside.
- Deglaze the pan with a little stock and add it back to the main stock.
- Prepare the roux by adding the oil to a heavy stock pot over high heat.
- When the oil begins smoking sprinkle the flour and begin to whisk the mixture.
- Continue whisking. Do not walk away or your roux will burn. You are looking for a deep red brown color. Be very careful, splashing the roux will severely burn you.
- It's beginning to take color.
- Almost there.
- That's about good. Took roughly 10 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium and add half of the vegetables, dumping away from you to prevent splashing.
- Stir and cook the veggies for 2 minutes.
- Add the remaining veggies, spices, and garlic. Cook another 2 minutes
- Remove the roux from heat.
- Bring the stock to simmer in a large pot.
- Add the roux a spoonful at a time, stirring in between so it's not lumpy.
- Bring the soup to a simmer. Cut the sausage into chunks and add to the gumbo. If you're using chicken, add it here too.
- Simmer for 20 min, or longer to suit your schedule.
- Add the shrimp, crab, and oysters. Cook until the shrimp are pink or about 3 minutes
- Add the parsley, green onion, and gumbo filé. Stir and serve over hot rice.
Recipe adapted from Ron Iafrate, Chef Ron's Gumbo Stop, Metairie, LA. A caste iron pot of seafood gumbo on a white background Seafood, Chicken and Sausage Gumbo. Raw Meats and Seafood on a Wooden Cutting Board Cajun shrimp and sausage pasta. Seafood gumbo, packed with shrimp, oysters, red snapper, and, especially Louisiana blue crab, is a classic South Louisiana dish. Ben Thibodeaux, chef de cuisine of Dickie Brennan's Tableau in Le Petit Theatre, says, "Our warm, fertile waters help our blue crabs get nice and fat, which lends a sweetness.
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