A Creole stew, Gumbo is usually made with tomatoes, okra, and other vegetables and meats Gumbo usually starts with a roux as the thickener, and filé powder is often added just before serving Recipe: Gumbos and Roux
A thick, robust soup sometimes thickened with okra or file' There are thousands of variations, such as shrimp or seafood gumbo, chicken or duck gumbo, okra and file' gumbo
tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
A thick Southern style soup/stew made with meat, poultry, fish, shellfish or vegetables Served over plain white rice Okra, filé powder, and roux All methods are acceptable, and all are considered traditional
In parts of the United States, gumbo is another name for okra. In soil science, any of various fine-grained, rich, black, alluvial soils, especially of the central U.S., that when wet become impenetrable and soapy or waxy and very sticky. When dried, gumbo "bakes" and becomes extremely hard
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
A delicacy of South Louisiana It is a thick, robust soup almost always containing a roux, and sometimes thickened with okra or file' There are thousands of variations, only a few of which are shrimp or seafood gumbo, chicken or duck gumbo, okra and file' gumbo Generally, gumbos fall under two categories, those thickened with okra (thus the name) which comes from an African word for "okra," and those with ground sassafras leaves, known as "file " The earlier gumbos were closer to soups than to the stew often served today You can make the soup thicker by using more roux or adding more file powder The ingredients call for oyster liquor, the juice left over from opening oysters, which would have been abundant in an era when many meals began with oysters Bottled clam juice or fish broth make suitable substitutes Serve the gumbo over rice
A thick, mostly okra-based soup that is poured over cooked rice There are many different types of gumbo, including, Chicken Gumbo, Shrimp Gumbo, and Crawfish Gumbo