Frank's place new orleans gumbo
Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients:
- 1 c Chopped onions
- 1 c Chopped celery
- 1 c Chopped green bell pepper
- 2 Cloves garlic minced
- 1/4 c Butter or margarine
- 1/4 c Flour all-purpose Salt to taste Pepper to taste
- 1 ds Tabasco sauce
- 5 Bay leaves
- 1 cn Tomatoes drained(16oz)
- 1 c Tomato juice
- 5 c Hot water
- 3 c Shrimp shelled/deveined
- 6 Small hard-shell crabs
- 24 Shucked oysters
- 1 lb Okra chopped
- 3 c Hot cooked rice
Instructions:
Chopped fresh parsley 1. In large Dutch oven gently saute onion celery and bell pepper in butter; add garlic and continue to sauce 5 minutes. 2. Remove from heat and slowly stir in flour. 3. Add salt pepper Tabasco bay leaves tomatoes and tomato juice; simmer for 15 minutes. 4. Add the hot water shrimp crabs oysters and okra; cover and simmer 30 minutes. 5. Spoon a few tablespoons cooked rice in each of six large soup bowls; ladle gumbo onto rice and garnish with parsley. From: Michael Orchekowski Date: 25 Mar 94
