PSA: Gumbo Season is here. Don’t do gumbo wrong. Here are some handy rules from a gumbo expert:
- Brown your sausages
- ABSOLUTELY NO wieners/hot dogs/franks in the pot
- Don’t put whole, undressed crabs in the pot
- PLEASE clean your Blue crabs
- NO snow, king or dungeness crabs in the pot
- De-vein your shrimp, I prefer JUMBO sized
- Skim the grease off the top
- NO mixed veggies in the pot (corn, green beans, carrots)
- Only the holy trinity of cooking, (onion, bell pepper, celery)
- Absolutely NO tomato paste or sauce …. NO tomatoes at all
- No see thru gumbo, invest in a bottle of kitchen bouquet if you haven’t mastered the art of browning your roux
- If you burn your roux, dump it and start over. Nothing worse than a scorched flavored gumbo
- If you don’t know your way around making a roux, jarred is fine. Just doctor it up real good
- Also, please disclose your gumbo type (okra, seafood, file’, chicken & sausage) so folks can be prepared.
