Oven Roux Recipe

Oven Roux Recipe

The secret to making a good gumbo is perfecting the roux. This can be a difficult and laborious task, which requires constant stirring over the stove top for more than an hour. There are roux hacks, which produce a solid roux, but are much easier to perfect. Our Oven Roux recipe is a hack which will have you focusing more on your gumbo and less on your roux. Follow the directions below and use your nose to ensure that you don’t burn your flour!

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Ingredients:
Flour

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400F.
2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
3. Evenly spread flour on baking sheet.
4. Put flour in the oven and stir every 10-minutes. It’s easiest to push the sides to the middle and then to spread back out when you stir. This will ensure that you are evenly mixing the flour to prevent it from burning.
5. Cook for 50-minutes depending on the color. You want the roux to look like milk chocolate.
6. Also, in the last 15-20 minutes, use your nose to make sure that the roux is not burning. If it begins to burn, you can stir every 5-minutes.

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