Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, alligator chili and beans. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. 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 favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Alligator chili and beans is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook alligator chili and beans using 22 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Alligator chili and beans:
- Take 1 lb alligator meat
- Get 1 lb ground chuck
- Take 1 sweet onion med diced
- Make ready 1 green bell pepper med diced
- Make ready 15 oz black beans drained
- Take 15 oz kidney beans drained
- Make ready 32 oz crushed tomatoes
- Prepare 32 oz V8 tomato juice spicy hot
- Make ready 2 tbsp Evoo
- Prepare sea salt
- Take black pepper
- Prepare 2 tsp Ghost pepper infused salt (optional)
- Take 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
- Take 2 tsp cayenne pepper
- Prepare 2 tsp cinnamon
- Prepare 1 tsp ground ginger
- Get 2 tbsp chili powder
- Make ready 2 tsp celery salt
- Take 1 tbsp marjoram leaves
- Prepare 1 tbsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- Take 2 chipotle peppers in adobe sauce, minced
Alligator is one of the leanest and most healthy meats found anywhere. The meat we use is farm-raised under strict conditions right here in the USA. The spicy recipes that complement this meat give it the especially unique taste that makes it the most popular product in our. I've never had alligator before and never thought of it in chili, so this recipe caught my eye.
Instructions 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
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. Add alligator and sauté twenty minutes to render juices. Add onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and jalapenos.
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