Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

A recipe for seafood gumbo that contains oysters, crab, and shrimp in a spicy thick broth made with spices, aromatic vegetables, and a dark roux. Gumbo is one dish that makes Louisiana cuisine so famous. We live across the state line in Texas and can't seem to get enough of this traditional gumbo recipe that features okra, shrimp, spicy seasonings and what is called the holy trinity—onions, green peppers and celery.

Seafood Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Seafood Gumbo is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have seafood gumbo using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Seafood Gumbo:

1. Get Bacon drippings
2. Get Flour
3. Get Celery
4. Prepare large white onion
5. Take bellpepper
6. Get large tomatoe
7. Get garlic
8. Prepare Gumbo file seasoning
9. Take Worshircheire
10. Prepare Tony Chachere's (cajun seasoning)
11. Take Louisiana hot sauce
12. Get Vinegar
13. Make ready Salt
14. Get Of good beef stock or bone broth
15. Prepare andoullie sausage
16. Get Shrimp
17. Make ready cn. Lump crab meat
18. Get Frozen okra
19. Take Cooked rice per bowl
20. Prepare boiled egg per bowl

This is the best gumbo I've ever had. The crab boil is the key ingredient - do not omit it. The smell will drive you nuts!!! Taste the gumbo and season if necessary.

Instructions to make Seafood Gumbo:

1. Heat bacon drippings on low to medium heat and whisk in flour.
2. Continue to whisk and cook roux on medium heat until it reaches a rich dark brown color. This could take up to 30 minutes. Whisk non stop or the roux will burn.
3. Once you reach your desired color, turn down to low to medium heat and add in onion, celery, and bellpepper and let this cook for another 10 minutes. It will become very thick.
4. Add in chopped garlic, andoullie sauage, and chopped tomato and cook another 5 minutes.
5. In a skillet, add a Tbsp of bacon grease, vinager, and okra and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally.
6. Add stock or bone broth to the roux mixture and stir until well blended.
7. Add gumbo file, Tony's, salt, hot sauce, Worcestershire and stir.
8. Remove cooked okra from skillet with a slotted spatula and add to gumbo.
9. Add lump crab and shrimp and let simmer until ready to serve.
10. Serve gumbo over a bowl of rice and add a boiled egg cut in half. Enjoy!

Garnish with the parsley and green onions and serve in shallow bowls over white rice. 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. 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 to the seafood gumbo.

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