Alligator chili and beans
Alligator chili and beans

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, alligator chili and beans. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Alligator chili and beans is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Alligator chili and beans is something which I have loved my entire life.

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.

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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Alligator chili and beans:
  1. Get 1 lb alligator meat
  2. Make ready 1 lb ground chuck
  3. Take 1 sweet onion med diced
  4. Get 1 green bell pepper med diced
  5. Prepare 15 oz black beans drained
  6. Get 15 oz kidney beans drained
  7. Take 32 oz crushed tomatoes
  8. Make ready 32 oz V8 tomato juice spicy hot
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp Evoo
  10. Take sea salt
  11. Make ready black pepper
  12. Get 2 tsp Ghost pepper infused salt (optional)
  13. Make ready 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
  14. Make ready 2 tsp cayenne pepper
  15. Prepare 2 tsp cinnamon
  16. Prepare 1 tsp ground ginger
  17. Get 2 tbsp chili powder
  18. Make ready 2 tsp celery salt
  19. Take 1 tbsp marjoram leaves
  20. Get 1 tbsp ground cumin
  21. Get 1 tbsp smoked paprika
  22. Get 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:
  1. Oil large skillet with evoo and sweat onions and bell pepper at low heat until onions become translucent.
  2. Put all dry (excluding salt and black pepper) seasonings in a separate bowl and mix them
  3. Once onions are translucent transfer onions and bell peppers to crock pot
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Once at a good simmer and flavor has reached desired level add mixture into crock pot with V8 juice and all remaining seasonings.
  7. Thoroughly mix and place at 2 and a half hours on low heat
  8. 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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