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Oyster Gumbo
Photo: Caroline Attwood

Oyster Gumbo

8 ingredients 2 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

496
Calories
34g
Protein
28g
Fat
29g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Oyster 6 medium (84g) 81
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Okra 1 cup (100g) 33
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 pint oysters
  • 4 cups Fish Stock
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 tablespoon chopped onion
  • ½ can okra
  • ⅓ can tomatoes
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Directions

1

Clean, pick over, and parboil oysters; drain, and add oyster liquor to Fish Stock. Cook onion five minutes in one-half the butter; add to stock. Then add okra, tomatoes heated and drained from some of their liquor, oysters, and remaining butter. Season with salt and pepper.

2

Fish Stock= is the liquor obtained by covering the head, tail, skin, bones, and small quantity of flesh adhering to bones of fish, with cold water, bringing slowly to boiling-point, simmering thirty minutes, and straining.

By Fannie Merritt Farmer · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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