Recipe: Delicious Ultimate Seafood Gumbo

Ultimate Seafood Gumbo. 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.

With it's dark flavorful roux, fresh seafood, smoked sausage and fresh okra, this New Orleans Gumbo is the ultimate comfort food. This is a great seafood stew "gumbo". This would be great with mussels and some pieces of cod too. You can have Ultimate Seafood Gumbo using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ultimate Seafood Gumbo

1. Prepare 1 of ham hock.
2. You need 2 quart of water.
3. You need 1/4 cup of butter.
4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of fresh or frozen okra, chopped.
5. Prepare 2 of bell peppers, chopped.
6. You need 2 large of onions, chopped.
7. Prepare 3 tbsp of parsley flakes.
8. Prepare 2 stalks of celery, chopped.
9. You need 6 cloves of garlic, smashed, left whole.
10. It's 1 big can of whole tomatoes.
11. Prepare 2 of bay leaves.
12. It's 1 tsp of salt, to taste.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of pepper, to taste.
14. You need 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper, to taste.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of ground mace.
16. Prepare 1/2 tsp of ground cloves.
17. It's 1/2 tsp of ground allspice.
18. Prepare 1 tsp of gumbo file.
19. You need 2 tsp of Worcestershire sauce.
20. You need 2 lb of peeled, raw shrimp.
21. You need 1 lb of crab meat.
22. Prepare 13 1/2 oz of andouille sausage.
23. Prepare 2 cup of 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.

Ultimate Seafood Gumbo instructions

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.