Gumbo File For Louisiana Creole Cuisine Powdered Sassafras Leaves 1_5 oz_

This North American herb adds just the right amount of spice to your dishes, without being too overbearing. Used in Louisiana Creole cuisine for the past couple centuries, gumbo filé powder can become a welcomed seasoning in your own culinary masterpieces. Order yours from our store today! Filé Powder for Cooking Chicken and Sausage File Gumbo – The combination of chicken pieces, sausage, ham, bell peppers, and onions makes this a delicious Southern meal for all to enjoy. Once you’ve added all of those tasty ingredients, you will top it off with the file powder and serve over steamed rice. Seafood Gumbo – If you’re looking to appease the pescatarians in your family, seafood gumbo is the way to go. Just load it with oysters, some red snapper, and Louisiana blue crab, and you’re on your way to something uniquely Cajun. Jambalaya – Use rice and broth as the basis, before adding things like thyme, cumin, salt, pepper, and of course… gumbo filé powder. Butter in a large skillet for about 5 minutes and then transfer the shrimp to a plate and enjoy. Burma Spice favors the sassafras trees from the Durham area of North Carolina. Although these trees don’t get too terribly large (some could even argue they are more like shrubs than full-grown trees), their leaves are perfectly aromatic. We believe this makes a difference in our filé powder. Sassafras was part of the region’s first natural resources boom. Sir Francis Drake referred to it as a “wondrous root which kept the starving alive and in fair good spirit.” The filé you consume is the result of dried and pounded sassafras leaves.