Seafood Gumbo Recipe

Name: Seafood Gumbo Recipe
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...

Keywords

gumbo
american
bacon
bell pepper
canned tomato
okra
shrimp
oyster
crab
main
dinner
dairy free
nut free
simmer
juneteenth
kwanzaa
gourmet

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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