Papa's Seafood Gumbo

Total Time: 4 hrs Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup canola oil
• 2 cups flour
• 2 medium onions
• 4 -5 sticks celery
• 5 -6 garlic cloves
• 3/4 gallon wine
• 1 -2 lb polska kielbasa or 1 -2 lb other link sausage, cut into bite sized pieces
• 1/2 cup worcestershire sauce, approximately
• 1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
• 2 teaspoons pepper
• 2 tablespoons cajun seasoning
• 2 teaspoons tabasco sauce or 2 teaspoons hot sauce
• 2 (16 ounce) bags frozen cut okra
• 10 (8 ounce) cans oysters
• 3 lbs shrimp, 21/30 count raw, peeled
• 2 1/2 lbs imitation crabmeat

Recipe

• 1 make a roe with the oil and flour in a skillet. add more of either flour or oil as necessary. it should be a medium dark brown, and a thin syrup. you should have approximately 3 cups of roe when finished.
• 2 add celery, garlic and onions to the roe and cook until translucent. pour this into a very large 20 gallon stock pot.
• 3 add wine, and approximately 1 gallon water. add more as necessary, this is hard to measure but it should be about 2/3 water and 1/3 wine.
• 4 in your original skillet, brown the sausage. add this to the pot.
• 5 add seasonings to taste.
• 6 boil for 1-2 hours on medium high. when it starts to smell good, you know you are starting to get there. start tasting at this point and add more seasonings as necessary.
• 7 add okra and oysters.
• 8 let cook for another 40 minutes or so.
• 9 add shrimp and crab.
• 10 let cook until shrimp is pink.
• 11 serve over rice.