3 good orleans gumbo Recipes

all-purpose flour, bacon drippings, coarsely chopped celery, onion, coarsely chopped, green bell pepper, coarsely chopped, garlic, minced, andouille sausage, sliced, water, cubes beef bouillon, white sugar, salt to taste, hot pepper sauce (such as tabasco), or to taste, cajun seasoning blend (such as tony chachere s), or to taste, bay leaves, dried thyme leaves, stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce, gumbo file powder, bacon drippings, frozen cut okra, thawed, distilled white vinegar, lump crabmeat, uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined, worcestershire sauce, gumbo file powder

qts. chicken stock (must be homemade!), flour, oil, chicken or guinea hen, without giblets, cut up, andouillesausage , sliced about 1/4 thick on the bias (you may substitute hot or mild smoked sausage if good andouille isn tsp available) and/or fresh creole hot sausage, browned, shrimp, peeled and deveined, blue crabs, cleaned, broken in half and claws pulled off (or for a more elegant looking gumbo, omit and instead add 1-1/2 lb lump white crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage), okra, sliced (leave out if you don tsp like okra, but be sure to add file at the end if you leave out the okra), onions, chopped, green onions with tops, chopped, bell peppers, chopped, ribs celery, chopped, several cloves garlic, minced, bay leaves, fresh parsley, chopped, black, white and cayenne peppers , to taste, salt to taste, few dashes tabasco , or to taste., file powder (only if you don tsp use okra!), steaming hot louisiana long-grain rice