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Survey regarding tomatoes in Gumbo
Categories: Clichés, Cuisine, Identity
Tomatoes are used when you make ok Gumbo ONLY. When you say gumbo we are to assume you mean file. You must differentiate or you confuse the to. Never and I mean Never is tomatoes used with file
No tomatoes ever!
Passed down by story, mouth and hand.
No tomatoes in the Blache-Dreux Family Gumbo.
There are so many “Chumbo” recipes out there, from people from other regions… well those recipes may call for tomatoes that’s just a “seafood stew” not Gumbo Baey-bee!
No never.
No
There is a careful balance of tomato in my gumbo recipe so that my gumbo has a unique and delicate rustic color that distinguishes it from my regular brown gravy.
My family – Brunet, LaCour, Mathis, Ladmirault, St. Amant – NEVER use tomatoes in gumbo of any kind (file, chicken, okra or seafood gumbo). The only time my mother(and her mother and hers) used tomato or tomato sause was in shrimp creole or crawfish bisque.
My maternal family is from Opelousas, St. Landry in general, paternal side from Fausse Point, Loreauville in general. Growing up in California, our neighbor was from Baton Rouge and her okra gumbo had tomatoes. It was the bomb, but it wasn’t gumbo to me. I think tomatoes or no tomatoes is regional. None of my extended family ever used okra or tomatoes in their gumbo.