- [Man] Awesome.
The Cajun veg, yeah.
The raging Cajun veejay vegan Cajun, yeah.
- Today, I'm on The Edgy
Veg, I'm going to show you
how to make a Cajun gumbo.
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We're going to make entire
recipe in an Instant Pot.
Hello new friend.
I got one of these for
Christmas and I love it.
I've been using it
probably about once a day.
I'm obsessed with it.
But if we don't have an
Instant Pot, don't worry.
You can still make this.
Just do it on the stove.
In a pot.
James is very excited about this recipe
because he's been asking
me to make gumbo for years.
He loves Cajun, Louisiana style food.
So it was about time that I
threw this thing together.
Traditionally, gumbo is kind
of a whatever's in your house,
whatever meat you can find.
So in the south apparently
they would use a lot
of really weird types of meat,
because a lot of those areas were poor.
But we're doing a vegan one,
and we're gonna do the more
well known like sausage
and chicken style with some okra as well.
For the chicken we are
going to use jackfruit,
because you can shred it,
it makes a really nice
shredded chicken substitute.
So we are going to marinate that first.
We're gonna wash it, drain
it, throw it in a bowl,
and then we're going
to mix up our marinade.
To make our marinade, we are going
to use five different spices.
We are going to use a quarter
teaspoon of black pepper.
A quarter teaspoon of mustard powder.
Half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
Half a teaspoon of garlic powder.
And half a teaspoon of paprika.
I'm gonna throw mine in small blender,
but if you have like a spice grinder,
you can use that as well,
and we're just going to pulverize that.
Blend it until it's well combined.
Then we're just gonna to
toss that onto the jackfruit,
and toss it altogether and
then set it to the side.
Let it marinate for about 15 minutes.
Which is probably the
amount of time you need
to prep the rest of the ingredients.
For the sausage I use the field roast
Mexican style Chipotle sausage.
I had a whole pack in the fridge,
and apparently James ate them all.
I hope they were delicious.
Don't eat the food props.
Now that are veggies are all sliced,
our jackfruit is marinated we are going
to heat up our Instant Pot.
So you want to hit the saute button.
And heat up one tablespoon of coconut oil.
Then we are going to put
our sausage in there.
Cook that for about three to five minutes
until the edges become crispy and brown.
Once our sausage is
cooked, we are just going
to remove that from the Instant Pot.
Put it in a bowl and set it aside.
And we are going to heat up
one new tablespoon of coconut oil.
And then we are going
to saute the jackfruit.
Again, three to five minutes
until it's slightly crispy and cooked.
Then we're gonna take that out.
Again and don't clean the Instant Pot
in-between all these steps,
because the oil is
really getting all those
delicious flavors from the spices
that are on the jackfruit
and also in the sausage.
Now I'm going to heat up six
tablespoons of coconut oil.
And then I'm going to throw
in half a cup of flour.
As well as one tablespoon
of Cajun seasoning.
Two cloves of garlic.
One teaspoon paprika.
And one teaspoon dried thyme.
Now whisk that quickly.
Right away and continuously
for 15 minutes.
What we're making here is a Roux.
Traditionally, a Roux is
used to thicken a soup,
or a stew or a gravy,
but today it's actually
where the flavor for
our stew is coming from.
So you don't wanna screw
this up and it will burn.
So whisk continuously.
I know once in awhile when
you see whisk continuously,
you whisk and walk away and come back.
You can't do that with this.
So just keep whisking.
And whisk and whisk and whisk and whisk.
Alright, now that our Roux
is nice and dark brown
and really flavorful, we
are going to add an onion.
Two celery stalks.
And half of a green pepper.
All finely chopped.
I used my food processor for this
because I don't have time
to chop vegetables by hand.
You can do it by hand or you can do it
the easy and cheating way like I do.
We're gonna cook that for about
three minutes stirring constantly.
Again, you don't want this to burn.
Just until the vegetables are soft.
Now let's turn this guy into a stew.
Add one cup sliced okra.
One and three quarter
cups of crushed tomatoes.
And three veggie bouillon cubes,
and three and three
quarters cups of water.
I used the no chicken kind.
You can use no beef, no chicken,
or just regular vegetable or
just broth if you want that.
And a bay leaf.
Now really mix that together.
You want to scrape the
bottom of your Instant Pot
because if you have
something stuck to the bottom
of the Instant Pot, when
you go to pressure cook it,
it won't bring it to pressure,
because it thinks something's
burning at the bottom.
So really scrape the bottom of that pot.
Now let's throw on the lid.
Close the pressure valve.
And we are going to pressure
cook that for four minutes.
Alright, our Instant Pot is beeping,
so we are going to quick release.
Keeping our face and
our hands away from it,
'cause you don't wanna burn yourself.
Give a quick stir and then season
with salt and pepper to taste.
Now I like to serve this
on a bed of white rice,
but you can just have it on its own.
It's a stew.
Serve it with a side of toast.
And those are probably
your only two options.
Maybe noodles.
I don't know.
Do people serve this with noodles?
I'm getting told that you
don't serve this with noodles.
You only serve it with rice.
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Garnish it with cut up
parsley or some green onion.
Whatever you wanna garnish it with.
And that's your gumbo.
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I am ready to dig in.
Oh my God.
I think it's all over my
face and all over the counter
because it's just so good.
The jackfruit, it really is
the perfect shredded chicken.
It really does make me
want to get on an airboat,
and take a ride into the swamp.
James, you really need to try this.
You're really missing out.
James has been begging me
to make this ever since
he came back from his
bachelor party in New Orleans.
And I thought it was like, it's a stew.
Get over it.
But it's really, really good.
I'm very impressed.
Alright guys.
There you have it.
Easy vegan gumbo.
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Alright guys.
We're gonna go eat some stew,
because James is drooling over there.
So I hope you guys have a good week.
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Bye.
- [Man] You're the raging--
- Stop (laughs).
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