Sausage and Seafood Gumbo
Sausage and Seafood Gumbo

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sausage and seafood gumbo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sausage and seafood gumbo using 23 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sausage and Seafood Gumbo:
  1. Take 4 small onion, diced (about 2 cups)
  2. Make ready 6 celery stalks, diced
  3. Prepare 2 green bell peppers, diced
  4. Get 16 oz okra, sliced (frozen is fine)
  5. Take 2 tsp salt
  6. Make ready 2 bay leaves
  7. Prepare 1 tsp cayenne
  8. Make ready 1 tsp whit pepper
  9. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
  10. Get 1 tsp oregano
  11. Make ready 1 tsp thyme
  12. Prepare 4 garlic cloves, minced
  13. Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
  14. Get 1 cup flour
  15. Take 6 cups seafood stock (chicken is fine too)
  16. Get 1 lb andouille sausage
  17. Prepare 1 lb shrimp, peeled
  18. Make ready 6 oz crab meat, cleaned (or finely diced chicken)
  19. Get 6 oz oysters in liquor, roughly diced
  20. Get 1/4 cup parsley, minced
  21. Make ready 2 green onions, sliced
  22. Prepare 2 tsp gumbo filé
  23. Take Hot steamed rice

Recipe adapted from Ron Iafrate, Chef Ron's Gumbo Stop, Metairie, LA. Seafood gumbo, packed with shrimp, oysters, red snapper, and, especially Louisiana blue crab, is a classic South Louisiana dish. You don't have use expensive seafood most times I use whatever fish and shrimp I have in the freezer. This seafood gumbo takes some time, but is well worth the investment.

Steps to make Sausage and Seafood Gumbo:
  1. Prepare the onions, celery, bell pepper, and okra in a bowl.
  2. Add the spices into a small bowl.
  3. In a skillet, brown the sausage over high heat. If you bought fully cooked sausage, skip this step and go directly to making roux
  4. Once the sausages are browned, remove them and place on a plate to cool. Don't worry if they're still raw inside.
  5. Deglaze the pan with a little stock and add it back to the main stock.
  6. Prepare the roux by adding the oil to a heavy stock pot over high heat.
  7. When the oil begins smoking sprinkle the flour and begin to whisk the mixture.
  8. 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.
  9. It's beginning to take color.
  10. Almost there.
  11. That's about good. Took roughly 10 minutes.
  12. Reduce heat to medium and add half of the vegetables, dumping away from you to prevent splashing.
  13. Stir and cook the veggies for 2 minutes.
  14. Add the remaining veggies, spices, and garlic. Cook another 2 minutes
  15. Remove the roux from heat.
  16. Bring the stock to simmer in a large pot.
  17. Add the roux a spoonful at a time, stirring in between so it's not lumpy.
  18. 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.
  19. Simmer for 20 min, or longer to suit your schedule.
  20. Add the shrimp, crab, and oysters. Cook until the shrimp are pink or about 3 minutes
  21. Add the parsley, green onion, and gumbo filé. Stir and serve over hot rice.

You don't have use expensive seafood most times I use whatever fish and shrimp I have in the freezer. This seafood gumbo takes some time, but is well worth the investment. I modified my mother's chicken and sausage gumbo recipe to make it gluten-free. Good gumbo is hard to find for my friend with a wheat allergy. Chicken Shrimp & Sausage Gumbo – a rich, flavorful gumbo with authentic flavors; loaded with chicken, sausage, shrimp and crab legs.

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