Creole Gumbo

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 3 teaspoons butter or 3 teaspoons margarine
• 3 teaspoons all-purpose flour
• 1 (16 ounce) can tomatoes, cut up
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1/2 cup green pepper, 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 2 cups frozen okra
• 2 (4 1/2 ounce) cans shrimp, drained
• 1 (7 ounce) can crabmeat, drained,flaked and cartilage removed
• hot, cooked rice

Recipe

• 1 cook onion and garlic in butter until onion is tender.
• 2 stir in flour.
• 3 cook, stirring constantly until flour is browned.
• 4 stir in the tomatoes, water, green pepper, bay leaves, oregano, thyme, salt and hot sauce.
• 5 bring to boil.
• 6 reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
• 7 remove bay leaves.
• 8 stir in the okra.
• 9 bring to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
• 10 stir shrimp and crab meat into okra mixture.
• 11 cook about 5 minutes longer or until heated through.
• 12 serve gumbo over hot rice.
• 13 (traditionally, rice is mounded in heated soup plates and the gumbo is spooned around it).