Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, alligator chili and beans. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
As a vegetarian, I was impressed with this recipe, because I could easily substitute extra beans (cannellini and black beans) and vegetables for the alligator meat (I hate soy and won't use it!). This recipe has lots of beans and spices, so it's a great basic chili recipe. The last meal I cooked over charcoal down in Louisiana before heading back to Minnesota.
Alligator chili and beans is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Alligator chili and beans is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook alligator chili and beans using 22 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Alligator chili and beans:
- Prepare 1 lb alligator meat
- Prepare 1 lb ground chuck
- Get 1 sweet onion med diced
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper med diced
- Prepare 15 oz black beans drained
- Make ready 15 oz kidney beans drained
- Make ready 32 oz crushed tomatoes
- Get 32 oz V8 tomato juice spicy hot
- Prepare 2 tbsp Evoo
- Get sea salt
- Get black pepper
- Get 2 tsp Ghost pepper infused salt (optional)
- Make ready 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
- Prepare 2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Take 2 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp ground ginger
- Make ready 2 tbsp chili powder
- Make ready 2 tsp celery salt
- Get 1 tbsp marjoram leaves
- Get 1 tbsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- Take 2 chipotle peppers in adobe sauce, minced
Add alligator and sauté twenty minutes to render juices. Add onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and jalapenos. Sauté until vegetables are wilted, approximately three to five minutes. Add pinto beans, tomato sauce and chicken stock, bring to a low boil and reduce to simmer.
Steps to make Alligator chili and beans:
- Oil large skillet with evoo and sweat onions and bell pepper at low heat until onions become translucent.
- Put all dry (excluding salt and black pepper) seasonings in a separate bowl and mix them
- Once onions are translucent transfer onions and bell peppers to crock pot
- Use skillet to cook the ground chuck and ground alligator meat, raise to med high heat and constantly fold in pinches of the salt and pepper until to desired taste and evenly brown.
- Add small amounts of dry seasoning mixture to developed flavor then add beans, crushed tomatoes, chipotle peppers to skillet and continually stirring and pinching in seasonings
- Once at a good simmer and flavor has reached desired level add mixture into crock pot with V8 juice and all remaining seasonings.
- Thoroughly mix and place at 2 and a half hours on low heat
- After done cooking give a taste to see if any additional salt, pepper, or spice would be desired, if so add, mix and simmer for 5 minutes then enjoy
I've never had alligator before and never thought of it in chili, so this recipe caught my eye. The mix of meats is just right. You can taste the creole seasoning added, but it's not overwhelming. The chili's chunky and stick-to-your-ribs good. Alligator is one of the leanest and most healthy meats found anywhere.
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