Ben walked through his parents’ duck and andouille sausage gumbo recipe, now posted on his blog. Key tip: skip the butter roux entirely. “Who the fuck’s using butter? … Bacon grease all day long… Bacon grease makes the best roux in my mind, personally. If you don’t have saved bacon grease, then lard.” Sauté your okra in the hot roux first to kill the slime, go low and slow until the roux is as dark as you can get without burning, and swap in chicken, seafood, or whole crab for the duck and sausage if you want a variation. Ben calls gumbo his favorite food in the world — hard to argue once you taste a roux done right.
Full recipe (one of seven currently posted): namedben.com.
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