Seafood Gumbo Recipe | Epicurious

Name: Seafood Gumbo Recipe | Epicurious
Ingredients: 1/2 pound bacon, chopped; About 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 3/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2 celery ribs, chopped; 1 medium green bell pepper, chopped; 1 medium onion, chopped; 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 2 1/2 quarts fish or chicken stock (or a combination); 1 (14-ounce) can whole tomatoes in juice, drained and chopped; 1 pound frozen cut okra (not thawed); 1 teaspoon chopped thyme; 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf; 1 rounded teaspoon cayenne; 1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley; 1/2 cup chopped scallions; 1 1/2 pound medium shrimp in shell, peeled and deveined; 2 dozen shucked oysters with their liquor, oysters picked over for shell fragments; 1/2 pound lump crabmeat, picked over; Accompaniments: rice; gumbo filé powder; N/A gumbo filé; N/A powder

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For most people, the word gumbo immediately conjures the Cajun and Creole cooking of Louisiana. But okra (ngombo in Bantu), for which the soup-stew is named, reached South Carolina with the slave...

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Ingredients

1/2 pound bacon, chopped
About 1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 celery ribs, chopped
1 medium green bell pepper, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 1/2 quarts fish or chicken stock (or a combination)
1 (14-ounce) can whole tomatoes in juice, drained and chopped
1 pound frozen cut okra (not thawed)
1 teaspoon chopped thyme
1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
1 rounded teaspoon cayenne
1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
1/2 cup chopped scallions
1 1/2 pound medium shrimp in shell, peeled and deveined
2 dozen shucked oysters with their liquor, oysters picked over for shell fragments
1/2 pound lump crabmeat, picked over
Accompaniments: rice; gumbo filé powder
N/A gumbo filé
N/A powder