Juanita's Creole Gumbo
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 12 crabs, cleaned, fresh, broken into 4 parts each, with claws cracked (for lack of fresh crab, 1.5 lbs chicken or fish may be substituted)
- 907.18 g raw shrimp, cleaned and peeled (if only shrimp are used, use 5 lbs)
- 473.19 ml oyster, raw drained (optional)
- 453.59 g can whole canned tomatoes
- 236.59 ml okra, thinly sliced (optional)
- 5 slice bacon, real pork
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 6 peppercorns
- 1.23 ml crab boil, zatarain's
- 2.46 ml thyme
- 354.88 ml flour
- 3 garlic cloves
directions
- In a large pot, put 2 cups water, salt [to taste] add crab boil, thyme and peppercorns.
- Bring to a roiling boil; add crabs and boil for approximately 20 minutes, add tomatoes and okra, and simmer slowly.
- While this simmers, make the roux.
- Slice the bacon strips into small pieces and fry.
- Remove.
- Sauté the chopped onion and garlic in the bacon grease.
- Remove.
- To bacon drippings, add enough flour to make a thin gravy.
- Use very low flame, stir continuously, taking care to make it dark brown without burning it.
- Add bacon and onion& garlic bits back to mixture and heat.
- Add roux to simmering seafood pot.
- Stir very well.
- Add shrimp and simmer approximately 30 minutes.
- Add oysters and simmer only until edges of oysters curl.
- It is done, serve over a bed of rice.
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A friend emailed me this recipe and I made this last night. I got this membership to say that I would give this 10 stars if I could! This is absolutely the most fantastic gumbo I've ever had in my LIFE! OMGs this is scrumptous! I grew up in Louisianna, and I'm not believing this is even better than my Gram's! I took a bowl of it to her this morning along with this recipe and she even had to admit that it tops her 40-year-old-recipe! (She swears she's not sharing this one with any of the relatives. *LOL*) Way to go, Fiendish_Dramaturgy! Thanks ever so much!
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