by 1 Cylivers
: Creole
This recipe serves 6 people
Nutritional Info
Calories 130, Total Fat 3.1g, Total Carbohydrate 9.0g
Ingredients
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 clove garlic, minced
3 teaspoons butter or margarine
3 teaspoons all-purpose flour
1 (16 ounce) can tomatoes, cut up
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup green peppers, chopped
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon dried, crushed oregano
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4-1/2 teaspoon bottled hot pepper sauce
2 cups fresh okra or frozen okra
2 (4 1/2 ounce) cans shrimp, drained
1 (7 ounce) can crabmeat, drained,flaked and cartilage removed
hot, cooked rice
Directions
- Cook onion and garlic in butter until onion is tender.
- Stir in flour.
- Cook, stirring constantly until flour is browned.
- Stir in the tomatoes, water, green pepper, bay leaves, oregano, thyme, salt and hot sauce.
- Bring to boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
- Remove bay leaves.
- Stir in the okra.
- Bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Stir shrimp and crab meat into okra mixture.
- Cook about 5 minutes longer or until heated through.
- Serve gumbo over hot rice.
- (Traditionally, rice is mounded in heated soup plates and the gumbo is spooned around it).
