Grammy's Kitchen · Gumbo · Shrimp and Crab Gumbo
One of 129 gumbo recipes we measured
It ranks #5 of 129 for heat level among the gumbo recipes we compared. 83 cooks on www.thespruceeats.com rate it 4.3★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 129.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 167% | 96% |
| fat | 2% | 6% |
| aromatics | 120% | 21% |
| thickener | 0% | 4% |
| vegetables and beans | 36% | 38% |
| collagen idx | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| marbling idx | 0.6 | 0.6 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1/4 cup medium roux | |
| 300 g | 2 large onions (chopped) |
| 3 cups okra (chopped) | |
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons oil |
| 411 g | 1 (14.5-ounce) can stewed tomatoes |
| 9 g | 3 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 1893 g | 2 quarts water |
| Salt (to taste) | |
| Black pepper (to taste) | |
| Cayenne pepper (to taste) | |
| 50 g | 1/2 cup parsley (finely chopped) |
| 1050 g | 6 to 8 green onions (finely chopped) |
| 907 g | 2 pounds shrimp |
| 1 cup oysters | |
| 225 g | 1 cup crab meat |
| 6 crab claws |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.thespruceeats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Im shocked to see that there is no Holy Trinity in this recipe! Onion, bell pepper and celery mixture is the flavor base and backbone of Cajun and Creole cooking, and in gumbo especially. Was this possibly an oversight or accidental ommision?” — a cook
“You did not add the recipe on the roux. Please send to my Facebook Inbox. I would love to make this version.” — a cook