Gumbo Recipe
Ingredients
1/2 cup bacon grease or cooking oil
2 green peppers, minced
4 medium onions, minced
8 stalks celery, minced
4 tablespoons flour
5 packages frozen cut okra, defrosted
3 cans (1 lb.) tomatoes
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons Tabasco
2 tablespoons Kitchen Bouquet
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 tablespoon gumbo file
4 quarts water
3 pounds shrimp
2 pounds crabmeat
2 cans clams with juice
1 quart oysters (optional)
Directions
Heat bacon grease and cook green pepper slowly until tender.
Add onions and celery, and cook until tender and brown, stirring.
Add flour and blend.
Remove from heat.
In a separate pot cook okra until no longer stringy and brown at edges.
Drain tomatoes thoroughly, put through a food grinder and add to okra.
Cook and stir for 15 minutes.
Combine vegetable and flour roux with okra mixture, juices from tomatoes, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco to taste.
Add Kitchen Bouquet, vinegar, gumbo file and 1 quart water.
Cook uncovered for 1 hour.
Add 3 quarts water and simmer 3 hours.
Add shrimp, crab, clams and oysters.
Heat and serve.
Add onions and celery, and cook until tender and brown, stirring.
Add flour and blend.
Remove from heat.
In a separate pot cook okra until no longer stringy and brown at edges.
Drain tomatoes thoroughly, put through a food grinder and add to okra.
Cook and stir for 15 minutes.
Combine vegetable and flour roux with okra mixture, juices from tomatoes, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco to taste.
Add Kitchen Bouquet, vinegar, gumbo file and 1 quart water.
Cook uncovered for 1 hour.
Add 3 quarts water and simmer 3 hours.
Add shrimp, crab, clams and oysters.
Heat and serve.
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