astray recipes: Cowboy gumbo

Categories: Main dish
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
¼ cup	Butter, margarine or oil
2 tablespoons	Flour
2	Cloves garlic minced
½ cup	Chopped onion
½ cup	Chopped gr pepper
2 cups	Water
1	14 1/2 0z can tomatoes
1	6 0z can tomato paste
1 tablespoon	Dried parsley
1	Bay leaf
2 tablespoons	Worchestersdhire sauce
2 teaspoons	Instant beef bouillion
1 teaspoon	Chili powder
¼ teaspoon	Pepper
⅛ teaspoon	Basil
⅛ teaspoon	Ground cloves
1	16 oz pkg frsh or frozen
	OKRA
2	To 2 1/2 lb peeled, deveined
	Shrimp, crabmeat or crayfish
3 cups	Hot cooked rice
	File powder ( opt )

Combine flour and fat in a heavy saucepot or dutch oven and cook low heat stirring constantly 10 to 15 minutes or until the mixture is light brown ( roux ). Add garlic, onion and peppers. Cook until tender. Stir in water, undrained cut up tomatoes, paste and seasonings and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook covered for 30 minutes.Add okra and seafood and return to boil. then reduece heat to a simmer anc cook another 10 to 15 minutes until heated through.

Remove bay leaf. Serve with rice and sprinkle with file powder. ~---

cowboy gumbo