Show of hands (Andouille in Seafood Gumbo)

[Unclee1]

I'm making Gumbo tonight...to finish/eat tomorrow.
It's going to be a seafood (Shrimp, Crab, Oyster) and I'm thinking of adding Andouille to the roux/veg/stock mix before letting it 'blend' in the fridge overnight.
This is freaking my wife out...No mixing of the Gumbo types! :-)

So the question is. Do you add Andouille to your seafood gumbo or just stick w/ seafood?

 

[JBP55]

I ate some seafood gumbo that contained a little sausage last week made by someone from the Lafayette area and it was very good.

 

[MOTOR51]

Stick with seafood. Too much money in a seafood gumbo to chance it , lol

 

[Log Island]

No, I never do!
Seafood with seafood..
Chicken with the pig....
My $.02

 

[RedStickChick]

Stick with just seafood.

My mom gets a fried turkey from a family friend every Christmas and she ends up using it to make a massive batch of turkey/sausage gumbo. Quite possibly one of the best things ever.

I'd recommend that combination as well.

 

[BOSS351]

Seafood only--shrimp, crabs and crab meat, crawfish, and oysters with their liquor. No pork/beef meats with seafood gumbo. Like said above, seafood gumbo is too expensive to loose its flavor to smokey meats.

 

[Log Island]

If I might add to my previous, pertaining to "overpowering"... I've seen people make wonderful crab or shrimp BISQUE, only to add crawfish to it. C-fish overpowers both of the two....again, wasting your $$$.

 

[Ijaw]

Andouille or Tasso? Absolutely!

 

[medic1957]

As others have said, seafood only. Don't mess up a good thing.

 

[MRBULLRED]

Put some "Jacobs" andouille and enjoy. It will be the best seafood gumbo ever...
Will be eating this exact setup tomorrow...

 

[Labeeman]

Sausage in seafood gumbo = fail. That is something that should stay segregated.

 

[tallwalker]

Okra. Hold the sausage.

 

[JBP55]

Put some "Jacobs" andouille and enjoy. It will be the best seafood gumbo ever...
Will be eating this exact setup tomorrow...

We never use sausage in seafood gumbo but the one I ate last week with a small amount of sausage was the type you would ask for the recipe.

 

[LACamper]

Add the Andouille! Not a lot but do it!

Jacob's on Airline in LaPlace makes the best Andouille.

 

[pntbllr228]

Definitely. Seafood and andouille are a match made in heaven.

 

[JBP55]

Okra. Hold the sausage.

The seafood gumbo I ate recently with a small amount of sausage was much better than any of the heavy okra gumbo's I have eaten.

 

[103M 95G]

Its called Gumbo for a reason, put what you want in it.

 

[US Infidel]

Do it.

 

[Geauxfish]

Not for me. Seafood gumbo has seafood only.

 

[Unclee1]

I ended up not putting in the Andouille...I chickened out. I did make shrimp stock and the gumbo tastes f'n awesome. It's resting in the fridge. I'll add shrimp, crab and oysters tomorrow when I heat it up.