File Powder

Name: File Powder
Brand: Granville Island Spice Co.
SKU: 000459B
Price: 12.95 CAD
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Filé powder is a native North American herb made from dried and ground sassafras leaves. It has a woodsy, earthy flavour reminiscent of root beer. It is as important as a thickener as a flavour most notable for the quintessential Cajun/Creole soup/stew: Gumbo, as in a crawfish pie and a jambalaya and a filé gumbo son of gun we'll have big fun on the bayou. Filé roughly means stringy, and this is important: It must be added to gumbo at the end of cooking, off the heat if boiled, it will transform your gumbo into a stringy, unappetizing mess. It is often passed at the table and added to taste.

Staff Tips & Tricks

With its significance extending beyond flavor, filé powder proves itself as both a thickener and a defining element in quintessential Cajun/Creole dishes like Gumbo, crawfish pie, and jambalaya. As the song goes, "a filé gumbo son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou." The name "filé" aptly translates to "stringy," and this holds particular importance in its culinary application. Gumbo File;Adding filé powder to Gumbo must be done at the end of cooking and off the heat. Boiling filé powder could lead to an unappetizing, stringy texture in your Gumbo. As a tradition, filé powder is often passed at the table, allowing individuals to adjust the flavor to their liking.

Ingredients

Filé powder, hanpicked from North America, a herb derived from dried and ground sassafras leaves.

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