Crawdad Gumbo

It doesn't get much better than this Crawdad Gumbo, folks!

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup cooking oil
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 stalks celery, chopped
• 1 cup canned diced tomatoes
• 3 1/2 pints combination crawfish fat and water
• 1 bay leaf
• Kosher or sea salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 tablespoon green onion tops
• 1 1/2 cups crawfish tails
• 1 tablespoon gumbo file powder
• 2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

1. Make a golden roux with the oil and flour.
2. Add onion, garlic and celery. Stir and cook for 4 minutes.
3. Add tomatoes, and cook for 5 minutes.
4. Add crawfish fat and water and bay leaf. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer and add salt and pepper. Simmer for 40 minutes.
5. In another skillet, fry green onions and crawfish tails in butter over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
6. Add to gumbo. Put in file powder.
7. Serve over hot, cooked rice.

Attribution

Photo credit: adolfkoller CC BY