Perfect Gumbo At Home (With Creole Butter)
Homemade Gumbo should be a cook's right of passage. And fine, maybe this gumbo isn't exactly perfect, but its flavor profile is pretty dang perfect when you get that first spoonful.
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Joshua Weissman•
Nov 3, 2021
Ingredients (47)
Ingredients (47)
Stock
Cajun Seasoning
Gumbo
MSG Butter
Directions
Stock
De-shell the lobster by cutting along the underside with kitchen shears, cracking the sides, and gently pulling out the meat. Set the meat and shell aside separately.
Break down 3 snow crab clusters, reserve the meat, and place the shells with the rest of the stock ingredients.
In a big pot over medium-high, add enough oil to coat the bottom, add the short rib and the chuck roast searing on all sides, for 2 - 3 minutes or until caramelized.
Add in all the shellfish shells, along with the vegetables, black peppercorns, and bay leaves. Next, add the water, bring it to a boil, reduce to low heat, and simmer, skimming off any scum that rises to the top, and let it cook for 5 - 6 hours.
Remove the solids, strain through a fine-mesh sieve.
Reserve.
Cajun Seasoning
Mix all ingredients.
The Gumbo
In a large stockpot (10 quarts), add the duck fat, pork fat, heat over medium heat; once it’s melted, add the flour, mix it, and let it cook, occasionally stirring until a dark mahogany color, around 15 minutes.
Cut both sausages on a half an inch piece on a bias. Reserve.
Add the celery, onion, and bell pepper to the pot, sauté until soft, add the garlic, sauté until fragrant, then add the sausages and let it rend some of the fat.
Add the Cajun seasoning, let it toast for one minute.
Add the Louisiana hot sauce, stock, tomatoes, and bring it to a boil, lower the heat to medium-low, and simmer for one hour.
Add the filet powder (first measurement), simmer for 25 minutes, add the bottom segment from two snow crab clusters, remove the meat from the rest of the clusters, and place it to the side.
Add three whole snow crab clusters, broken into individual pieces, then add the shrimp, the devein lobster (one-inch chunks). Lower the heat to low, simmer for 15 minutes.
Add file powder (second measurement), and simmer for 5 minutes. Then add all of the king crab meat and the Worcestershire sauce.
Once the meat is hot, it is ready to serve.
MSG Butter
Combine the butter, msg, garlic, chives, mix it and fold together until thoroughly combined.
On a sheet of plastic wrap, spread the butter into a seven-inch long strip, roll the plastic wrap around it, fully enclosing the butter, then grab the two sides and let it roll and wind up into a sausage and place it in the fridge until solid.
Slice a medallion and place it in your bowl of gumbo.
