Guys keep nagging me to try and make one even though I never have so since we're just cruising tonight with nothing to do really decided to try.... Apparently it's about the same deal as a gumbo just a lighter butter roux...think mine was a little too light but first times first












And apparently this over a friend catfish fillet is the best thing ever so ..


Smells good , probably be better around lunch after it's had time to sit

Nothing wrong with that at all my friend. Maybe a little darker w the roux next time but it's all personal preference. It'll eat

Need a wooden spatula to stir that roux too. Idk it just seems to work better than a metal one

Daughter makes me one every year on my birthday. Instead of rice I put it on cauliflower.

This.....looks tasty

I can smell the pictures.

So you cook the veggies in the roux? first?

Never cooked gumbo or etoufee, but I make other stews and saute the veg first before adding the stock, etc, and make a roux separately and mix in last...
So educamate me on the roux first method.....

I like the idea of putting the Étouffée on the catfish fillet, which looks really good too.

Keith

4 sticks of butter, there is no way it can't be good.

I cook my roux to about 80% the color I want then add my veggies , buy the time I'm at the color I want the veggies have been cooked down a lot so I don't have to cook them down as long . Just how I like to do things

Yeah was weird , had it about perfect for what I thought your supposed to get but when I added the seafood stock is whited out a good bit....don't think I ever had that happen .
O and yeah prefer a wooden one too but these yahoos broke the one I use on here

.....don't worry I still think your a really cool guy
Seriously though never heard of that , interesting

Make your own stock, super easy with a crock pot and 1000 percent better

I usually do for my gumbo since I cook a whole chicken anyway but never really have enough seafood or shellfish on the boat to make a seafood stock. If I could get the guys in the wheel house to pull over and left me buy something off these lil crabbing and shrimp boats we pass I could definitely do some lol

Don't you fish ? Shrimp shells and bream heads make a fine stock I