Seafood Okra Gumbo
From henrie 16 years ago
- 180 minutes to make
- Serves 8
This is an easy but time consuming recipe. Well worth the effort. Great served over rice with a salad and french bread or garlic bread.
Ingredients
- 1 can tomatoes shopping list
- 2 cups chopped onions shopping list
- 6 toes chopped garlic shopping list
- 2 lbs. fresh or frozen okra cut up shopping list
- 1/4 cup oil shopping list
- 1 1/2 quarts water shopping list
- 2 lbs shrimp, peeled and deveined shopping list
- 2 lbs polish or smoked sausage shopping list
- 1 Tsp. salt or less, to taste shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper shopping list
- 1/2 tsp. red pepper (cayenne) shopping list
- 1/4 cup oil shopping list
- 1/4 cup flour shopping list
- crab Meat (if you desire - add an amount to suit your taste) shopping list
How to make it
- In a 4 quart casserole dish stir into 1/4 cup oil, the tomatoes, onions, garlic and okra.
- Cook covered on HIGH for 1 hour. Stir ocassionally
- In a 3 cup measuring cup make roux with 1/4 cup flour and 1/4 cup oil. (a roux is flour and oil browned. It is the basic for most Creole recipes. It colors and thickens gumbos, etc.)
- Microwave thte oil and flour on HIGH for 5 to 7 minutes. Watch that it doesn't burn. It should be caramel colored when finished.
- Add Roux to okra mixture along with water and seasoning. Bring to boil on HIGH and boil for 15 minutes.
- Stir in the shrimp, sausage, and crab meat if your using it.
- Cook on MEDIUM for 30 minutes.
- Serve hot over rice with lots of either french bread or garlic bread and a nice salad
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How did I miss this??? wonderful!
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mmm hm! I'm making some gumbo tonight!
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Five forks, Henrie!!! This sounds really good ;-)
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