Recipe - Commanders Palace Seafood Gumbo

6 tablespoon Flour
One half cup Shortening
6 Cloves garlic, chopped
One half cup Diced onion
One fourth cup Chopped bell (green) pepper
One half cup Chopped celery
2 pound Peeled raw shrimp
1 cn (8 oz.) tomato sauce
3 qt Water
1 pound Claw crabmeat
One fourth bn Chopped parsley
One half teaspoon Thyme
3 Bay leaves
1 cn Or
1 pack Frozen okra
One half pt Oysters with juice
Salt & Pepper to taste

~ Yields 1 gallon

Make a roux with the flour and shortening. Add garlic and cook until golden
brown. Add onion, bell pepper, celery and cook until transparent. Add
shrimp and tomato sauce, simmer 10 minutes, stir in water and blend well.
Add all other ingredients except okra and oysters. Cook 1 hour, add okra
and cook 20 minutes. Add oysters and cook 10 mins longer. Serve in s soup
bowl over steamed rice.
Posted to FOODWINE Digest 22 Jan 97 by ALICIA GOLDMAN
ATRIUM.SURGERYPO.AGOLDMAN@OCHSNER.ORG on Jan 22, 1997.