Frank's Place New Orleans Gumbo


Course : Gumbo
Serves: 6
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Ingredients:


1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped green bell pepper

2 cloves garlic -- minced

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1/4 cup flour -- all-purpose

1 teaspoon salt to taste

1 teaspoon pepper to taste

1/8 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

5 pieces bay leaves

16 ounces tomatoes -- drained

1 cup tomato juice

5 cups hot water

3 cups shrimp -- shelled/deveined

6 small hard-shell crabs

24 medium shucked oysters

1 pound okra -- chopped

3 cups hot cooked rice

1 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
 

Preparation / Directions:


1. In large Dutch oven, gently sauté 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.


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