8 emeril seafood gumbo Recipes

bacon drippings - can use oil in place of bacon drippings, flour, lrg. onions, chopped, ribs celery, chopped, garlic, chopped (love garlic go for 6 cloves, chopped), lrg bell pepper, chopped, water, bay leaves, tabasco sauce or emeril s hot sauce or hot sauce of choice (to your taste for heat), salt and pepper, worcestshire sauce (matter of taste. . .i use a 1 tsp.), tomato sauce, raw crabs , cleaned (**i use dungeness. . . use a lrg crab in your area. can be blue crab or whatever offered but needs to be meaty), shell the crabs but leave the large front crab legs in tact. break into sections at the joints to be dropped into the gumbo when ready, parsley, chopped (i prefer about 1/8 cup. chopped ), raw shrimp, peeled and deveined, scallops (**note : can use manila or cherrystone clams in place of scallops. i alternate or sometimes add both scallops and clams.), cooked rice - whatever type you personally enjoy - this gumbo goes over the rice .

batch of light roux , recipe follows, seafood stock, count shrimp, peeled and deveined, lump crabmeat, dozen shucked oysters , liquid reserved, crab claw meat, chopped onions, chopped celery, chopped green peppers, chopped green onions, chopped parsley, salt , pepper, and cayenne pepper to taste, steamed rice, file powder to taste, recipe courtesy of emeril lagasse, flour, vegetable oil

all-purpose flour, vegetable oil, unsalted butter, onions, chopped, poblano pepper, chopped, celery ribs, finely chopped, garlic cloves, minced, whole tomatoes, chicken stock, clam juice, fresh okra, tops trimmed and halved lengthwise, bay leaves, lemon, juiced, kosher salt, cayenne, fresh thyme leaves, blue crabs, quartered (optional), shrimp, peeled and deveined, dozen oysters, shucked and liquid reserved, green onion, chopped, chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, lump crabmeat, cooked white rice

all-purpose flour, vegetable oil, unsalted butter, onions, chopped, poblano pepper, chopped, ribs celery, finely chopped, garlic, minced, whole tomatoes, chicken stock, clam juice, fresh okra, tops trimmed and halved lengthwise, bay leaves, lemon, juiced, kosher salt, cayenne, fresh thyme leaves, blue crabs, quartered , optional, shrimp, peeled and deveined, dozen shucked oysters , liquid reserved, green onions, chopped, chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, lump crabmeat, suggestion : cooked white rice

vegetable oil, okra, caps and tips removed, sliced 1/4-inch thick, salt and freshly ground black pepper, cayenne, chopped onions, chopped celery, chopped green bell peppers, tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped, chopped garlic, bay leaves, firm flesh fish , such as grouper, snapper,or monkfish, diced, essence , recipe follows, fish stock, shrimp, peeled and deveined, peeled crawfish tails, fresh lump crabmeat , picked over for shells and cartilage, file powder , to taste, chopped green onions, green part only, hot sauce, cooked long-grain white rice, warm, paprika, salt, garlic powder, black pepper, onion powder, cayenne pepper, dried oregano, dried thyme

olive oil, chopped onions, chopped celery, chopped green bell peppers, chopped red bell peppers, salt, black pepper, italian plum tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped, chopped fresh garlic, chopped fresh shallots, fish stock, diced firm-fleshed fish , such as grouper, tile, monk or sea bass (about 1/2 lb), worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, bay leaves, minced fresh basil leaves, minced fresh oregano leaves, stemmed fresh thyme, fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined , (about 1/2 lb), sliced fresh okra , (about 8 large), shucked fresh oysters , in their liquor, fresh lump crabmeat , picked over for shells and cartilage, file powder (ground sassafras), (available in specialty food stores), cooked white rice, chopped green onions, for garnish