
Lately, I’ve been playing a lot of Super Mario Odyssey, and that has inspired me to make a dish based on Mario’s mushroom enemies, The Goombas, for this month’s geeky recipe.
The Goombas’ looks are based on shiitake mushrooms, and are some of the most common enemies in the Mario games.
So what’s the best way to deal with baddies such as these?
Eh, throw ’em in a stew!
The Recipe
For four portions:
1. Measure up 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 35 grams of flour, 1 yellow onion, 1 green paprika, 2 celery sticks, 2 cloves of garlic, 200 grams of smoked italian sausage, 1 tablespoon oregano, 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 1 teaspoon black pepper, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon dried thyme, 1 teaspoon of red pepper flakes, 1 bay leaf, 800 grams of diced tomatoes, 1 liter chicken broth, 3 spring onions and 500 grams shiitake mushrooms.
2. Chop the vegetables, and the sausage, in whatever size you want.
3. Melt the butter over medium heat, then add the oil and flour. Stir constantly. After about 10 minutes, the mixture should be dark caramel colored.
4. Add the mushrooms, fry them until they shrink a bit.
5. Add all onions, the paprika and the celery sticks. Fry for another 5 minutes.
6. Add the sausage, spices, herbs, bay leaf, diced tomatoes and chicken broth.
7. Bring the gumbo to a boil, then reduce the heat.
8. Simmer for about one hour, until the gumbo has thickened
9. Cook some rice, to the specifications on the packaging.
10. Peel and devein 600 grams of shrimp. This should add up to about 300 grams of peeled shrimp.
11. If you are using raw shrimp, add them to the gumbo in the last 10 minutes of cooking. If you are using cooked pink shrimp, like I was using, add them in at the very last minute.
12. Plate up! Serve the gumbo in a bowl, with rice in the bottom.
Take that, Bowser!
my roommate loves playing the infinite numbers of mario games out there and will give him this recipe. thanks sharing.
Great, let me know if he makes it 😀
i will for sure.
That looks delicious!
Thanks 😀
Tasted so too 🙂
I was pretty happy with the results, as the last two dishes I made for my “monthly geeky recipes” could have turned out better than they did.
I am getting hungry looking at that delicous-looking meal.
Glad to hear it 😀
Can’t wish for a better response than that!
You are too generous. I would never share this. Leave them begging and experimenting in vain. Thank you. I’m making it this weekend, Lord willing.
:p
Let me know how it goes 🙂
Not a big video games player but I can do it for that dish as reward😀
I’ll take that compliment 😀
Your comment has inspired me to make a blog-post, trying to get people to try some more games 🙂
If all goes well, I’ll have it up by friday!
Looking forward to……then I will only have to race a bit more with Mario on the wii😉😀
Oh dear – all the things I would like, and himself will not touch 🙁
Well, stews are often even better when reheating. So you could make a bunch just for you, freeze it in portions, then easily reheat a portion for yourself. Then you or he could make something quick and easy for him.
But you would have to set aside the parts you want to reheat before you add the shrimp, unless you want to feel like you are chewing on erasers 😛
Not into chewing erasors! Thanks for the tips 🙂
I love this!❤️
Thanks 😀