Ultimate Seafood Gumbo
Ultimate Seafood Gumbo

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This delightful Seafood Gumbo is full of shrimp and crab and it has a nice spicy kick. Making a big pot of gumbo is a little labor intensive, but it lasts for days and only gets better with time. So I decided that Labor Day would be a great day to make some seafood gumbo.

Ultimate Seafood Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Ultimate Seafood Gumbo is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ultimate seafood gumbo using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Ultimate Seafood Gumbo:
  1. Take 1 ham hock
  2. Get 2 quart water
  3. Take 1/4 cup butter
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup fresh or frozen okra, chopped
  5. Make ready 2 bell peppers, chopped
  6. Prepare 2 large onions, chopped
  7. Make ready 3 tbsp parsley flakes
  8. Make ready 2 stalks celery, chopped
  9. Make ready 6 cloves garlic, smashed, left whole
  10. Make ready 1 big can whole tomatoes
  11. Make ready 2 bay leaves
  12. Prepare 1 tsp salt, to taste
  13. Take 1/2 tsp pepper, to taste
  14. Take 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, to taste
  15. Take 1/2 tsp ground mace
  16. Take 1/2 tsp ground cloves
  17. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground allspice
  18. Make ready 1 tsp gumbo file
  19. Take 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  20. Prepare 2 lb peeled, raw shrimp
  21. Prepare 1 lb crab meat
  22. Make ready 13 1/2 oz andouille sausage
  23. Take 2 cup cooked rice

Worcestershire sauce and tomato paste are often used in gumbo and jambalaya. Gumbo is a true melting pot dish. Originating in Louisiana it combines the cuisines and ingredients of several cultures including West African, French, German, and Choctaw. It is a top notch comfort stew.

Steps to make Ultimate Seafood Gumbo:
  1. Place the ham hock and water in a stock pot and simmer for 1 hour. Remove the ham hock to cool, reserving the liquid.
  2. In a large skillet, heat the butter over medium heat.
  3. Cook the okra until the gooey strings no longer appear as you stir. Add the bell pepper, onion, parsley, celery, and garlic and cook for 30 minutes. Remove the garlic and discard. Add the tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes.
  4. Remove the meat from the ham hock and add it to the stock pot. Place the veggies and bay leaves in the pot and cook on medium-low to medium for 3hrs.
  5. Add the seasonings and Worcestershire sauce and stir. Add the shrimp and sausage 30 minutes before serving. Add the crab meat 10 minutes before serving.
  6. Taste. Add hot sauce if desired. Serve with rice. If u like it thicker, add a little corn starch to the to a scoop of the stock, mix it, and return to the pot.

The seafood okra gumbo is made with okra, onion, bell peppers, celery, tomato, shrimp and crab. Seafood gumbo gets a little bit fancier at Mr. B's with gulf shrimp, crabmeat, oysters and okra. Laissez les bons temps rouler, y'all. Think gumbo and you think Louisiana, and rightfully so.

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