Hey everyone, welcome to my recipe site.it’s Lou Hopkins. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, louisiana gumbo. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Louisiana Gumbo is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Louisiana Gumbo is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook louisiana gumbo using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Louisiana Gumbo:
- Prepare 4 chicken breast
- Get sausage (I like polish) as much as you like
- Make ready 4 lbs shrimp
- Get 2 cups crab meat
- Prepare bundle celery stalks (sliced, leaves and all but the butt of it)
- Get 1 yellow onion diced
- Get 2 bellpeppers diced
- Get 4 cups fresh sliced mushrooms
- Get 1 cup flour
- Make ready 1 carton chicken broth
- Get vegetable oil (little under 2 cups)
- Get 2 tbsp minced garlic
- Make ready seasoned salt
- Get onion salt
- Prepare old bay seasoning
- Take 2 dashes Gumbo file
- Take tsp red pepper flakes
- Get 4 chicken bouillon cubes
- Prepare 2 cups white rice
Steps to make Louisiana Gumbo:
- Put a little oil on a skillet, cube your chicken and cut round pieces of your sausage. Add your favorite seasoning (seasoned salt, onion salt, etc.) Add 1 table spoon of minced garlic. Fry until done. Them put it all in a big pot
- Put a little oil in the same skillet. Peel shrimp (no tails). Put in skillet. Put crab meat in skillet. Season it with Old Bay seasoning. Cook until shrimp is pink. Put in big pot with your chicken and sausage.
- Poor a carton of chicken broth in big pot. If the liquid level is not even to the top of the meat poor water until the liquid level is even to the top of the meat. Then add 4 chicken bullions to the pot.
- Making the Roux… 1 cup of flower and 1 cup of oil in a pan/skillet and whisk it nonstop for 30 minutes. Continue to whisk it can burn. It will turn a very dark color but that's what you want.
- In another skillet add a little oil put diced onions, celery, bellpepper, mushrooms in there. Put a tbsp of minced garlic and any other favorite seasoning. (Season salt, onion salt, etc.) Kinda saute it but still a little crunchy looking. Add your Roux to this and mix till mixed in well. Then add to your pot.
- In the pot add a tbsp and a half of Old Bay seasoning. Put a little bit of red pepper flakes. Stir well put on med heat for an hour and 30 minutes. The last 15 minutes of cook time add 2 dashes of Gumbo file to thicken it up some.
- Serve over rice and ENJOY!
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