A Southern favourite dish with a smoky fish depraved. The custom of this stew traveled to Louisiana from West Africa and developed into what we know as gumbo.
Prep time: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
- For the Fish Stock:
- 1 trim fish head (about 2 pounds, or the equal in weight of smaller heads.)
- 12 ounces spring onions, white and green substances sliced into rings (or 1 ½ bunches scallions)
- 10 cloves garlic, smashed
- 2 bay leaves
- For the Gumbo:
- 1 recipe fish stock (gaze recipe)
- 1 trim piece smoked, salted dried fish
- 3 Indian eggplants (about 8-10 ounces or very little outdated skool eggplant)
- 2 cups sliced okra, (about 6 ounces crop into ½ accelerate rounds)
- 2-3 little sizzling peaceable chiles, or more, to taste (Thai bird chiles or identical)
- ½ cup Palm oil
- 1 dozen tiny neck clams
- ½ pound medium runt, peeled and deveined
- 3 squid, our bodies cleaned and separated from their tentacles
- 6 cups cooked whole grain rice
Substances
- To gain started with the fish stock, mix all ingredients in a stockpot with water to duvet. Bring to a boil then lower to a simmer. Skim the scum that rises to the bottom and discard. Cook at a bare simmer for roughly 1 hour.
- Secure the fish head and build on a plate to chill. Secure the skin and buy the meat off of the bones.
- Now you’re ready to put together the gumbo. Retain the fish stock at a simmer over medium low heat whilst you put together the rest of the ingredients.
- Add the piece of dry smoked dried fish into the broth. Add in the eggplants whole. Duvet the pot with the lid. The eggplants will braise in the liquid.
- Put the okra in a mortar and pestle. Crush it to starting up the “slime” and to pulverize it. Scuttle the chiles and add them, seeds and all, to the mortar and pestle. Shatter them with the okra if truth be told correctly. After about 5 minutes, it must peaceable conception admire a gelatinous, pulverized mixture.
- Add the okra mixture to the broth. Retain at an proper simmer to allow the okra to thicken the broth.
- Add the palm oil. It might probably actually even merely seem admire loads – on the opposite hand it’ll emulsify with the okra establishing a creamier stew. Simmer the aggregate for 10 minutes more unless it’s reasonably thicker.
- Add the clams and the picked meat from the fish head to the pot. Duvet and put together dinner for roughly 7-8 minutes unless the clams starting up up.
- Add in the runt and trip, add the total squid our bodies and tentacles. Cook for 3 minutes. Each the runt and squid our bodies have to be true variety cooked, but now no longer overcooked.
- Abet straight away over cooked whole grain rice.
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