Mary's seafood gumbo
Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients:
- 5 lb Okra
- 2 lg Onions chopped
- 1 cn Frozen crabmeat Salt and pepper to taste Small amt. oil
- 3 Tomatoes or 1 (#2) can
- 5 lb Deheaded shrimp
- 6 Crabs (or more)
Instructions:
Tabasco sauce Garlic bay leaf & thyme Use large alumionum pot not iron. Wash stem and cut okra into 1/2" pcs. Season with salt and pepper. Smother okra in as little oil as possible. When almost done add onion. Cook until tender add tomatoes. Let simmer add remaining ingredients and simer until done. If there is a favorite vegetable of the South it is surely okra. Gumbo gets its name from the Choctaw Indian word 'Kombo' for any thick soup made with okra.
