Grammy's Kitchen · Gumbo · Authentic Louisiana Creole Gumbo
One of 129 gumbo recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 129 for gravy quality among the gumbo recipes we compared. 42 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.2★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 129.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 0% | 96% |
| fat | 0% | 6% |
| aromatics | 0% | 21% |
| thickener | 0% | 4% |
| vegetables and beans | 0% | 38% |
| collagen idx | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1920 g | 2 quarts low-sodium chicken broth |
| 6 large live blue crabs, cooked and cleaned, outer shell reserved | |
| 907 g | 2 pounds large, U-26, shrimp, cleaned, shells reserved |
| 218 g | 1 cup canola oil, lard or Crisco |
| 120 g | 1 cup flour |
| 300 g | 2 large onions, diced |
| 160 g | 4 stalks celery, diced |
| 240 g | 2 green bell peppers, seeded and diced |
| 18 g | 6 cloves garlic, minced |
| 6 g | 1 tablespoon Creole seasoning, Lawry's or Old Bay, plus more to taste |
| 794 g | 1 28-ounce can, whole tomatoes |
| 48 g | 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce |
| 10 dashes of hot sauce, more to taste | |
| 2 g | 2 sprigs of fresh thyme |
| 2 g | 2 bay leaves |
| canola oil | |
| 907 g | 2 pounds stew beef, cut in 1-inch cubes, seasoned with salt and pepper at least one hour prior to starting the recipe, if not overnight |
| 907 g | 2 pounds bone in, skin on chicken thighs, seasoned with salt and pepper at least one hour prior to starting the recipe, if not overnight |
| 3 cups fresh okra, sliced | |
| kosher salt | |
| freshly ground black pepper | |
| cooked white rice, preferably short grain Carolina rice | |
| sliced green onions for garnish |
Method: 17 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Can i omit the meat? I'm having a very hard time finding a SHRIMP-ONLY Creole Gumbo recipe. The recipe posted here has ALL the things I like in Shrimp Gumbo - except the sausage & chicken. (I like my Gumbos separated!) I am not an experienced "pinch of this, d” — a cook
“I'm a Cajun my family is from St Landry and Evangeline Parish we do not use celery, celery is used in some Creole recipe,, this is not a Cajun or Creole gumbo, not sure but probably American recipe.. Cajun and Creole cooking has been multiplies and used to mak” — a cook