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This what my Sister calls Judd Gumbo
it is a N Louisiana Gumbo
You can use it with seafood or chicken/turkey and sausage.
I usually cut the recipe in half; as written it
makes a lot of gumbo
Make a roux
1 cup oil
1 ½ cup flour cook on low to medium high heat until
chocolate color. It takes me about 45 min to do this
I use an old cast iron Dutch oven (heaven help the fool that puts
soap on my black pots)
I stir the roux every 5 min for about ½ hr on low
to medium heat
Then finish on medium heat another 15 20 min.
The worst tasting thing
in the world is a burnt roux, it is well worth it to take
your time. It should look like dark chocolate definitely
not black.
Then add to roux
2 onions
6 stalks of celery
4 pods of garlic
Cook 10-15 min until the onions are clear
Slowly add about 5 quarts of boiling water
1 very large can of tomato sauce
1 small can tomato paste
I salt & pepper to taste her recipe says
1 ½ tbs salt
1 ½ tbs black pepper
1 tsp red pepper

Cook for 3 hrs

Add seafood
1 lb crab meat
3 lbs shrimp
1 ½ quarts oysters
Add bunch of green onions & parsley

That is the recipe
However I usually do it a little different
I make a chicken or turkey with sausage gumbo
About 3 days before I bake a hen & the sausage
I then let the hen cool over night
The next day I take the meat off the hen
& save it for the gumbo
Then I cook the hens bones usually over night
@ about 200 F then I crack the bones to expose the marrow
& then put bones in a colander in the gumbo
Stock & cool for about 3 hours

My favorite way to make this is with left
over turkey @ Christmas time
There is another easier way to make a seafood
Gumbo Creole style with okra but most people
I know do not like okra.

As with most Cajun style things you can add baked sausage
To the seafood gumbo or shrimp to the chicken
Be careful with oysters when I do use them (which is never
in Tennessee) I always buy them fresh then heat up
the gumbo then add oysters and cook them for like 10 min
Then eat the all the gumbo, left over oysters are bad news