Anyone have and good recipies for gumbo?!


Question: Anyone have and good recipies for gumbo!?
Answers:
My personal favorite!.
From Emeril's Delmonico restaurant!. i don't use the crab, and for fish stock i just use water that i boil shrimp shells in!. I kinda use this as a base!. and add or omit ingredients!. To make great gumbo it takes a long time in the kitchen!. I usually only do it once a year in the fall!.
anyway i got this from the food network website!. the link below
http://www!.foodnetwork!.com/food/recipes/!.!.!.
1 pound gumbo crabs without the legs, rinsed well and quartered
1 1/4 pounds andouille or other spicy sausage, sliced into 1/4-inch thick slices
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 cups chopped yellow onions
1 cup chopped green bell peppers
1 cup chopped celery
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 pound small okra, stem ends trimmed and sliced 1/2-inch thick
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 tablespoon dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1/2 cup lager beer
10 cups shrimp or fish stock
1 teaspoon liquid crab boil
3 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3/4 cup cooled Light Brown Roux, See How To Roux, recipe follows
2 pounds medium (26 to 30 count) shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 teaspoon Essence, recipe follows
1 pint oysters, with their liquor
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Steamed White Rice, for serving
Chopped Green Onion Tops, for serving

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F!.

Place gumbo crab quarters on a small baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes, or until lightly browned and fragrant!. Set aside!.

Cook the andouille, in batches, in a large stockpot, over medium-high heat until browned and the fat is rendered, about 5 minutes!. Remove the andouille with a slotted spoon, place on a paper towel-lined plate, and reserve!. Add the vegetable oil to the stockpot and heat with any excess fat from the sausage over medium-high heat!. Add the onions, bell peppers, and celery and cook until the vegetables are soft, about 4 minutes!. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 1 minute!. Add the okra and cook, stirring, until the vegetable has released most of its slime, about 3 minutes!. Stir in the tomato paste, basil, thyme, and bay leaves and cook, stirring, for 1 minute!.

Add the beer to the vegetable mixture, stirring to incorporate, and then slowly add the stock, stirring well!. Add the reserved gumbo crabs, browned sausage, liquid crab boil, salt, and pepper to the stock and bring mixture to a boil!. When mixture is at a boil, add the roux, a little at a time and whisking to incorporate!. Wait until mixture returns to a boil before adding more roux!. When all of the roux has been added, bring gumbo to a boil, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer gently for 45 minutes!. Using a clean ladle, occasionally skim any impurities or foam that rises to the top of the gumbo!.

Season the shrimp with the Essence in a medium bowl!. Add the shrimp, oysters, and their liquid to the gumbo, stir well, and cook until the shrimp are pink and just cooked through and the edges of the oysters start to curl, about 5 minutes!. Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley!. Remove bay leaves before serving!.

Serve immediately over steamed white rice and garnish with chopped green onions tops, if desired!.

How to Roux:
3 cups vegetable oil
5 cups all-purpose flour

Place a heavy, iron Dutch oven, (or iron skillet with deep sides) over medium heat and heat the oil until just smoking!. Whisk in flour, a little at a time and cook, whisking constantly, until roux becomes smooth and thick!. Continue to cook, constantly stirring with a wooden spoon and reaching all over bottom of pan, until roux darkens to desired color!. Be careful not to produce specs of black!. The roux must remain an even color throughout process!. If specs appear you must start over!.

For a Light Brown Roux, cook the mixture, over medium heat for 1 1/2 hours, or until the color of peanut butter!. Remove about 1 cup of the light colored roux, cool completely, and set aside for the Delmonico's Seafood Okra Gumbo!.

For a Medium Brown Roux, cook the mixture, over medium heat for an additional 30 minutes, or until the color of a copper penny when ready!. Remove about 13/4 cups of the medium colored roux, cool completely, and set aside for Emeril's Country File Gumbo!.

For a Dark Brown Roux, cook the mixture an additional 35 to 45 minutes!. The color should resemble dark chocolate when ready!. Remove all of the remaining dark roux from the pan and cool completely!. Set aside for the Chicken and Sausage Gumbo!.

Yield: about 4 1/2 cups roux

NOTE: The timings for various shades of roux will vary depending on the cooktop as well as the amount of roux made!. (A smaller amount will cook in much less time!.) If this is your first time making a roux, the slower you cook it, the less likely you will be to burn it!. The important thing is to cook the roux to the desired color, as specified above!.

Emeril's ESSENCE Creole Seasoning (also referred to as Bayou Blast):
2 1/2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon dried thyme

Combine all ingredients thoroughly!.

Yield: 2/3 cup

Recipe from "New New Orleans Cooking", by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch, published by William and Morrow, 1993!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Ingredients
oil for frying
275g/10oz onions, chopped
225g/8oz green peppers, chopped
2 sticks celery, chopped
25g/1oz andouille or other spicy sausage, sliced
25g/1oz smoked pork or bacon, cubed
1 tsp crushed garlic
? tsp dried oregano
? tsp dried thyme
1 bay leaf, crumbled
1 tsp salt
1? tsp cayenne pepper
1? tsp paprika
? tsp freshly ground black pepper
? tsp freshly ground white pepper
3 tbsp filé powder (optional)
1 tbsp Tabasco sauce
300ml/10fl oz puréed fresh tomatoes, strained
crab shells to flavour (optional)
450g/1lb large prawns (reserve the shells and heads for the stock)
1 dozen oysters
225g/8oz crab meat
6 freshwater crayfish
2 boudins (fish sausage) (optional)
200g/8oz cooked rice to serve
For the fish stock:
fish heads, tails and trimmings
1 onion
2 carrots
1 stick celery
1 leek
1 bay leaf
2 sprigs parsley
black peppercorns
prawn shells and heads



Method
1!. Place all the ingredients for the stock in a large saucepan and cover with about 1!.7 litres/3 pints cold water!. Simmer for as long as possible - 4 hours if you can manage it - and strain!. Set aside!.
2!. Heat the oil in a large pan, add the onions, green peppers and celery and let them sweat for a few minutes!. Add the spicy sausage and smoked pork!.
3!. Stir in the garlic, herbs, salt, spices and finally the filé powder, if using!. (Some people like to add filé at the end, but to my European way of thinking it should go at the beginning!.)
4!. Add the Tabasco sauce, puréed tomatoes and 1!.1 litres/2 pints of the fish stock!. Simmer for at least 45 minutes!.
5!. Add crab shells, if you have them, to give a little extra flavour and colour, the prawns, oysters, crab meat, crayfish and finally the boudins!. Simmer for another 10 minutes!.
6!. To serve as a main course, place a quarter of the rice in each bowl and top up with Gumbo!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

I do!!Www@FoodAQ@Com

This is a real easy one and I especially like it because I love spicy food!

Cajun Shrimp Gumbo Recipe
Ingredients:

3 TBS bacon grease (can use vegetable oil or olive oil)
3 TBS all-purpose flour
1 can stewed diced tomatoes (16 oz)
2 TBS tomato sauce (can use ketchup)
1 small onion chopped fine
1 chopped bell pepper (green or any other color)
1 TBS parsley flakes
1 clove garlic (crushed or chopped very fine)
1 1/2 cups hot water
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
? tsp cayenne pepper
? lb shrimp cleaned and shelled (frozen or fresh)
Rice (your choice of types)
Hot sauce (Louisiana Hot Sauce by Bruce Foods is a good brand)
Directions:

In a frying pan with fairly deep sides, heat the bacon grease (or oil) until pretty hot!. Then, stir in the flour!. Use a fork to mix it in well!. This will be your base or roux and flavor and thicken the gumbo!. Stir and cook until the roux is a pretty light brown color!.
Add all the other ingredients to the roux except the shrimp!. Shrimp cooks fast, so you do not want to add it early!. The shrimp will get tough if it cooks a long time!.
Bring your gumbo sauce to a boil!. Then turn the heat down to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes!. Stir occasionally!.
Add the shrimp!. Simmer around 10 minutes with frozen shrimp and closer 5 minutes for fresh shrimp!. The size will make a difference!. You may need to cook a shorter time for small shrimp and likely longer for large shrimp!. Just check the shrimp!. It should be a pretty orange like color!. Taste a shrimp if you’re not sure if it’s done!.
Serve your Easy Shrimp Gumbo over rice!. Typically it’s white rice, but brown rice or whole grain rice is also very good!.
Have hot sauce available!. Any brand is fine, but Louisiana Hot Sauce is a smooth sauce with a bite!. Everyone can doctor up the Shrimp Gumbo to suit their own heat meters!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

The last one I made I used alligator-shrimp-chicken+ oysters !. It was excellant !.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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