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This White Gator Chili will knock your socks off! 

Some days I am just really lazy and want a recipe I can throw in the slow cooker and forget about. I want these recipes to produce a tender meat and have a ton of flavor. This recipe did not disappoint. In fact, this might be one of my favorite recipes.

This is a similar vibe to a white bean or white chicken chili. Gator has a very similar flavor profile to chicken and does amazing in this recipe. The gator is so tender and absorbs all the flavors to take your taste buds on a delightful journey. 

You can also make this in an instant pot or on the stove, however I prefer the lazy leave it and forget it method. 

Don’t forget your toppings in this recipe! The lime juice and zest plus the tortilla chips really bring the recipe full circle. ENJOY!

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White Gator Chili

Perfect Soup to make as winter comes to an end!
Course Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Soup
Cuisine American
Keyword alligator, American, Chili, Gator, Soup
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 10 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs alligator meat
  • 1 yellow onion chopped
  • 2 poblano peppers seeded and chopped
  • 2 jalapeños seeded and chopped
  • 2.5 tsp ground cumin
  • 1.5 tsp chili powder
  • 1.5 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp minced garlic HEAPING tsp
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste
  • 2.5-3 C salsa verde
  • 1 can navy beans aka white beans
  • 2-3 C white shredded cheddar
  • 1/2-3/4 C fresh cilantro chopped

Serve with:

  • 1-2 jalapeños sliced
  • 5 C rice cooked
  • 1 avocado sliced
  • sour cream
  • shredded white cheddar
  • lime wedges
  • lime zest
  • cilantro
  • green onion
  • tortilla chips

Instructions

  • Add meat, onion, peppers and seasonings to the bowl of your slow cooker.
  • Season with salt and pepper.
  • Cover with salsa verde. Add lid and cook covered on low for 5-6 hours.
  • Mix, breaking apart the meat a little. It should be tender.
  • Stir in beans, cheddar, and cilantro.
  • Cook until cheese is melted, 5-10 minutes.
  • Assemble your bowl and ENJOY!

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This White Gator Lasagna should be a staple in everyone’s home.

Gator tastes like chicken, so when I was trying to think of unique recipes I wanted to make with it, my mind immediately went to white chicken lasagna. I love white chicken lasagna. I even like white veggie lasagna. Being well versed in the white lasagna department, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for this recipe.

Honestly, I love all of my recipes, but this one is top tier. It is amazing. I truly believe I outdid myself here. I would make this every week if I had an unlimited supply of gator. This recipe is truly what dreams are made of. It lives rent free in my brain. BECAUSE WOW. I am not trying to play it up, but this recipe really is that good. My swamp friends in Louisiana should add this to their menus if they have a restaurant.

I hope you give this recipe a try. It is SOOO worth it. You will NOT regret it. Enjoy!

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White Gator Lasagna

Delicious gator recipe! Be prepared, you might want to turn a whole gator into this!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian
Keyword Gator, Lasagna, Spinach
Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings 8 people
Author Sophie May

Equipment

  • 9x13 extra deep casserole dish

Ingredients

  • 1 box Lasagna Noodles*

Gator Filling

  • 2 lbs gator ground
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
  • 2 T extra virgin olive oil

Spinach-Ricotta Filling

  • 5 T butter
  • 1/4 C all purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 C half and half
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 5 T minced onion
  • 2 T minced garlic
  • 16 oz frozen spinach thawed; drained
  • 1/4 C water
  • 1 C ricotta whole

White Sauce

  • 1 C heavy cream
  • 1 C parmesan cheese grated
  • 1 T butter
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper

Toppings

  • 4 C mozzarella
  • 1/2 C shredded parmesan

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 °F.
  • Grease a 9x13 extra deep casserole dish (~3 inches).

Meat

  • In a pan over medium-high heat, heat olive oil.
  • Add you meat and seasonings. Mix well.
  • Cook until done, approximately 8-10 minutes.

Spinach-Ricotta Filling

  • In a pan over medium-high heat, melt butter.
  • Add flour and mix well. This should be thick. Cook until slightly browned
  • Add onion and garlic. Mix.
  • Add remaining ingredients and mix until smooth and completely incorporated.

Sauce

  • In a pan over medium-high heat, melt butter.
  • Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
  • Add remaining ingredients and cook until sauce thickens.

Assembly

  • If you do not have oven ready lasagna noodles (it would say on the box), cook and drain them now.
  • In the bottom of your greased pan, spoon 1/2 of the sauce on the bottom and sprinkle 1/3 of the meat on top.
  • Add a layer of noodles. I cut mine in order to fully cover the dish.
  • Spread 1/2 the spinach ricotta filling and 1/3 of the meat over the lasagna noodles.
  • Add another layer of noodles.
  • Spread remaining spinach ricotta filling and meat over the lasagna noodles.
  • Add remaining noodles or enough to cover the filling.
  • Spread remaining sauce on top.
  • Sprinkle mozzarella and parmesan on top.
  • It is all cooked, so bake to desired cheese crispiness. I baked mine for 30 minutes.

Notes

*These need to be cooked and drained if not using oven ready noodles. Either work.

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Happy Fourth of July! I hope all of you are celebrating this great country, we were blessed to live in, with family and friends today. As with most holidays in the great US of A, you have to have delicious food! Most of the time Independence Day brings memories of fired up grills with burgers and hotdogs. I’ve made a couple burger recipes recently and I’m still working on the hot dog recipe, so I decided on something a little different for this 4th. I made BBQ and Buffalo Gator Bites!

Nothing screams patriotic and ‘Merica more than deep frying some gator your husband shot off the Gulf of Texas.  While I have made gator nuggets before, those were Asian and not at all the style I was looking for. I really wanted a tasty BBQ sauce and honestly anything even reminiscent of chicken bites requires Buffalo sauce too. I paired them with a nice homemade ranch dip, and they did not disappoint. Keep the nuggets small to give yourself the best meat to sauce ratio and don’t skrimp on the BBQ sauce because it is delicious! Bring these to your next social gathering and be the life of the party. Also remember to run away after you light those fireworks, blowing off your arm will really hurt you in the kitchen lol!

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BBQ and Buffalo Gator Bites

A great appetizer, snack, or main dish your whole family will enjoy.
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword American, Appetizer, Gator
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

Gator Nugget Ingredients

  • 2 lbs ground gator 80:20 gator:pork
  • vegetable oil enough for frying
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 C corn starch
  • 1/4 C flour
  • 1 tsp garlic powder

Buffalo Gator Nugget Sauce

  • 1 C Frank's Red Hot
  • 2 T honey
  • 1/4 C salted butter melted

BBQ Gator Nugget Sauce

  • 1/2 C favorite BBQ sauce I use Kansas City
  • 2 T honey
  • 1 T ketchup I used sugar-free

Ranch Dipping Sauce

  • 1 C Duke's mayo
  • 1/2 C sour cream
  • 2 tsp fresh chives chopped
  • 3/4 tsp dill weed dried
  • 1/2 tsp parsley dried
  • 1 garlic clove minced
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

Ranch Dipping Sauce

  • Combine all the ingredients, mixing well.
  • Chill in the refrigerator while you complete the recipe.

Nuggets

  • In a fryer or frying pan, heat an inch of oil to 360° F.
  • Combine egg, salt, and pepper in a shallow dish.
  • In a separate shallow dish, combine flour, corn starch, and garlic powder.
  • Form small bite sized nuggets with the gator meat.
  • Cover 4-6 (however many will fit in your frying pan) gator bites in egg wash mixture and then dredge in flour mixture.
  • When oil is the right temperature, fry nuggets for approximately 3 minutes, turning them, and frying for another 2 minutes or until fully cooked and light brown.
  • Set fried nuggets on a paper towel lined plate and repeat the egg wash, flour, and frying process for the remaining nuggets.

Sauces

  • Mix together Buffalo Sauce ingredients. Set aside.
  • Mix together BBQ sauce ingredients. Set aside.

Prepare Nuggets

  • Preheat oven to 400° F.
  • Line a cookie sheet with foil. I take and extra sheet of foil and crumple it into a line to divide the sheet in half to keep BBQ and buffalo nuggets separate.
  • Dunk the nuggets (or brush) in either the BBQ sauce or Buffalo sauce and set them on the cookie sheet. Repeat until all nuggets are well coated.
  • Cook the nuggets for 5 minutes.
  • Remove and brush the nuggets again with their respective sauce.
  • Cook again for 3 minutes. This gets the sauce nice and caramelized on the nuggets.
  • Serve with the chilled ranch dipping sauce, carrots, and celery. Enjoy!

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One of my favorite meals in college was Costco stuffed bell peppers. They were easy, “healthy”, and would give me plenty of leftovers (which is a necessity as a poor college student). After a long day of classes and soccer practice nothing really beats being able to just throw something in the oven and having a meal that feels homemade.

Stuffed bell peppers are an easy and tasty meal even when you aren’t just heating them up from Costco. There are so many variations and ways to make stuffed peppers, you really can’t go wrong. With ground gator on hand and me wanting an easy meal, I decided to come up with my own stuffed bell peppers recipe!

I decided I wanted a Mexican version of stuffed bell peppers, so I threw in some enchilada seasoning. The great thing about this recipe is you might already have most of the ingredients in your pantry. I am so happy with how this recipe turned out. My husband isn’t normally a big fan of the stuffed bell peppers, but he ended up eating two! I hope y’all enjoy this as much as my family did.

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Mexican Gator Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers but better! Use your gator in every way imaginable!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Mexican
Keyword American, Gator, Peppers
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 6 peppers
Author Sophie May

Ingredients

  • 6 bell peppers any color, cut in half top to bottom stem removed
  • 2 lbs ground gator 80/20 gator pork fat mix
  • 1 small onion finely chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 16 oz mild chunky salsa or desired heat
  • 15 oz black beans drained and rinsed
  • 15 oz corn drained
  • 4 oz jalapeno peppers (canned) diced and drained
  • 4 oz green chilis (canned) diced and drained
  • 1.5 oz enchilada seasoning
  • 12 oz favorite cheese I used a spicy cheese
  • olive oil enough to lightly coat bottom of the pan

Toppings

  • fresh jalapenos
  • avocado
  • sour cream
  • cilantro
  • cheese

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In an ungreased large casserole dish place pepper halves in the oven and cook until softened (~20 minutes).
  • Over high heat, heat a large frying pan with olive oil drizzled in the bottom.
  • Once hot add onions and garlic and cook until browned.
  • Once browned add: meat, salsa, beans, corn, jalapenos, green chilis, and enchilada seasoning.
  • Once meat is fully cooked (~8-10 minutes) add in four ounces of cheese and combine.
  • Once peppers are done, fill them with meat mixture. There is a lot of mixture so if they overflow in the casserole dish that is fine.
  • Top with remaining cheese and cook for 15 minutes or until cheese is melty and slightly browned.
  • Top with your favorite taco toppings and ENJOY!!

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Ogres are like onions. They have layers. And unlike Donkey, I think everyone likes onions! But moving on from paraphrased Shrek quotes into the actual recipe.

I decided I wanted to make a combination of a Wisconsin butter style and mustard fried burger. It’s like if Steak and Shake and In-N-Out had a delicious little gator baby. If you didn’t know, a Wisconsin butter burger has caramelized onions on top and the buns are basically covered in butter. Caramelized onions are a true gift. The way basically just onions and butter come together to make caramelized onions is truly something else.

But the onions and butter weren’t enough. I had been craving a mustard fried In-N-Out burger and decided to add that wrinkle in too, which if you haven’t gotten that off their secret menu…you need to. The caramelized onions with some melty Havarti cheese is good, but the mustard fried burger takes your tastebuds to a new level. This burger is so simple yet so delicious. It really hit that glutenous satisfying feeling I was after.

Mwah chefs kiss.

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Wisconsin Buttery Gator Burger

Delicious buttery burger with caramelized onions on top. What more could you ask for???
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword American, Burger, Gator
Servings 6 burgers
Author Sophie May

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs ground gator 80 % gator 20% pork fat back blend

Burger Seasonings

  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup yellow mustard just enough to lightly coat the burger

Caramelized Onions

  • 3 small yellow onions julienned
  • 4 tbsp salted butter
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp sugar

Toppings

  • hamburger buns brushed with butter and toasted
  • cheese I used Havarti

Instructions

  • I ground my gator with straight pork fatback at a 80/20 mix.
  • Preheat your grill to medium high heat. I used a cast iron grilling tray with the flat side up.
  • Cook the caramelized onions while your grill preheats.

Caramelized Onions Instructions

  • Heat a sauté pan to medium high and melt your butter in it. After the butter has melted place your onions in it.
  • This process will take a while. Stir your onions occasionally (every couple of minutes). Enough to keep the onions from burning.
  • Put in your salt and sugar after 10 minutes and turn the heat down to medium. Continue stirring every couple of minutes until caramelized. The entire process should take 30-40 minutes.

Burger Instructions

  • Combine ground gator with onion powder, black pepper, and salt.
  • Form into patties that fit your bun.
  • Brush one side of the burger with mustard and place that side down on the grill, then brush the other remaining side with mustard.
  • Cook for around 4-5 minutes before flipping and another 4-5 minutes after that. You are looking for an internal temperature of 165°F.
  • For the last 1-2 minutes place your cheese on top of the burger to melt it.
  • Place your burger patties on your toasted buns. Brush the tops of buns with butter if desired. Top patties with caramelized onions.
  • Add any additional toppings if desired and ENJOY!

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I love flautas and I love gator so it only makes since to throw them together for some delicious Gator Flautas!

Growing up in Texas, I can tell you there are a ton of Mexican restaurants to choose from, and they are all delicious! I am thankful to have many friends who are Mexican and who have shared their culture with me.

Flautas or Taquitos are a popular Mexican dish and were always at my home room parties I had at school. These fried snacks are traditionally filled with beef, chicken or even just cheese. With the NCAA basketball tournament finals, a couple weeks ago, my brain gears started moving and I wanted to make a great appetizer/meal for the game. but also have my wild game twist. Voila! Gator Flautas! I hope you enjoy!

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Red and Green Gator Flautas

Fun different way to use some of your gator meat! Tastes very similar to chicken.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword Gator, Mexican
Prep Time 35 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 10 people
Author Sophie May
Cost N/A

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 lb ground gator
  • 20 flour tortillas
  • Oil neutral; enough to fry

Red Gator Filling

  • 1 cup red salsa
  • 1 cup cheese plus extra when filling
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1/2 cup yellow onion chopped
  • 1/2 jalapeno deseeded and chopped
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil or neutral cooking oil
  • 1/2 tbsp fresh lime juice

Green Gator Filling

  • 1 cup green salsa
  • 1 cup cheese plus extra when filling
  • 1 whole canned green chile chopped
  • 1/2 cup yellow onion chopped
  • 1/2 jalapeno deseeded and chopped
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil or neutral cooking oil
  • 1/2 tbsp fresh lime juice

Garnish/Toppings

Instructions

  • Divide meat equally.

Red Meat Filling Instructions

  • Heat one tbsp of oil over medium heat in a sauté pan.
  • Add 1 lb of meat, onions, cumin, and jalapeno.
  • Cook till brown/done approximately 5-10 minutes (or internal temperature reaches 160 °F).
  • Drain off liquid.
  • Add red salsa, cheese, lime juice, and continue cooking until cheese is melted.

Green Meat Filling Instructions

  • Heat one tbsp of oil over medium heat in a sauté pan.
  • Add 1 lb of meat, onions, and jalapeno.
  • Cook till brown/done approximately 5-10 minutes (or internal temperature reaches 160 °F).
  • Drain off liquid.
  • Add green salsa, chopped green chiles, cheese, lime juice, and continue cooking until cheese is melted.

Assemble Instructions

  • Add 2-3 tablespoons of meat filling to tortilla.
  • Sprinkle cheese on top of mixture if desired.
  • Tightly roll tortilla.
  • Add around a teaspoon of cheese to seam of tortilla. This will seal the flauta together when cooked.
  • Repeat this assembly until all meat filling is used.
  • Heat enough oil in a frying pan, to cover the flautas half way, over medium-high heat.
  • Once hot, fry the flautas a few at a time without crowding the pan.
  • Cook until browned, approximately 30 seconds to 1 minute depending on oil temperature.
  • Carefully flip, repeating process.
  • Decorate your flauta as you see fit and enjoy!

Notes

*I used the pickled onions recipe from Grilled Cheese Social

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Asian takeout is one of my favorite meals. This Asian inspired orange gator will surely kick your takeout cravings. Pair with chow mein and enjoy!

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Orange Gator

Asian inspired gator dish based off of a take out favorite!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian
Keyword Asian, Fast-Food, Gator, Orange, Takeout
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

Nuggets:

  • 2 lbs gator ground and formed into ~1 inch/nugget sized pieces
  • Vegetable oil enough for frying
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • ½ C corn starch
  • ¼ C flour
  • ¼ tsp white pepper

Orange Sauce:

  • ½ C white vinegar
  • ½ C + 2 T sugar
  • ¼ C water
  • 4 T soy sauce more to taste
  • ½ tsp orange zest
  • 1 T corn starch
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • Chili flakes to taste

Toppings:

  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • Sesame seeds
  • Green onion chopped

Instructions

Nuggets:

  • In a fryer or frying pan, heat oil to 360 °F.
  • Combine egg, salt, and pepper in a shallow dish.
  • In a separate shallow dish, combine flour and corn starch.
  • Cover gator bites in egg wash mixture and then dredge in flour mixture. Set aside and repeat with the rest of the nuggets.
  • When oil is the right temperature, fry nuggets for approximately 3 minutes, turning them, and frying for another 2 minutes or until fully cooked and light brown. Repeat this process for any remaining nuggets.
  • Set aside on a paper towel lined plate. This will absorb any excess oil.

Sauce:

  • Put all sauce ingredients in a saucepan and combine until there are no corn starch clumps.
  • Heat over medium to medium high heat, stirring often.
  • Once desired thickness is reached, toss nuggets in the sauce.
  • Once tossed add sesame oil and toss again to combine.
  • Top with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.

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I love gator and I love gator burgers! This Jalapeño Cheddar Gator Burgers recipe is one of the best ways to make a gator burger I know!

My dad and husband got an 11-foot gator last year. After giving away around twenty pounds and cooking another twenty we still have forty pounds of gator meat in the freezer. You’d think with all the meat you get off a gator the internet would have more ideas than just deep frying it! This is recipe two now, using gator without frying it, and boy was it good! I highly recommend adding gator burgers to the menu if you have any gator meat in the freezer!

If you need more gator recipes in the future, which if you hunt a gator and keep the meat you definitely will, keep following this account! Here’s a link to all of the gator recipes I have made so far. This will continually be updated and if you have any suggestions or ideas post it in the comments down below!

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Jalapeño Cheddar Gator Burgers

Delicious Gator Burgers what else do you really need to know???
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Burger, Gator
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Grinding 10 minutes
Total Time 32 minutes
Servings 6 burgers
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs gator thawed but very cold
  • 8 oz sharp cheddar cubed to fit in grinder
  • 2 jalapeños core and remove seeds
  • 5 green onion chopped finely
  • 1 egg whisked
  • 2 T Louisiana hot sauce divided
  • 1 T Cajun seasoning
  • 1/2 C mayo
  • Hawaiian hamburger buns
  • Burger toppings lettuce, green onion, mustard, pickles, tomato, sliced cheese, etc

Instructions

  • Grind gator, cheddar, and jalapeños through a medium grinding plate.
  • In a large bowl, add the meat mixture, green onions, egg, 1T hot sauce, and Cajun seasoning. Mix until thoroughly combined.
  • If you have a flat grilling tray, heat your grill to medium high heat. If you do not, use a large skillet or large frying pan on medium high heat.
  • Form six patties. They need to be pretty fat so that they do not fall apart.
  • The meat is very lean so it does not like to stay together. I made mine about 3/4-1 inch thick and a little smaller than the size of my palm.
  • Cook the patties 4-6 minutes each side or until fully cooked. As previously stated, they like to fall apart, so be careful when flipping them.
  • Combine mayo and remaining 1T of hot sauce.
  • Assemble burgers. Enjoy!

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My mom grew up in Southeastern Louisiana and attended Tulane University where she met my father. I have loved Cajun food since I was in the womb. This crockpot gator jambalaya is so easy and tasty it will have you saying “Laissez les bons temps rouler!” like the locals.

Gator Jambalaya
Gator Jambalaya
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Crockpot Gator Jambalaya

Delicious gator jambalaya that you can just throw in the crockpot.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Cajun
Keyword Cajun, Gator, Jambalaya
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 10 minutes
Servings 8
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs gator cut into bite size pieces
  • 2.5 C white rice
  • 1 package sausage sliced (I used jalapeño and green onion venison sausage)
  • 1 T vegetable oil or butter to brown sausage
  • 1/2 T Cajun seasoning I used The Cajun Ninja’s
  • 1 onion diced
  • 1 green bell pepper diced
  • 2 stalks of celery diced
  • 3 cloves of garlic minced
  • 3.5 C chicken broth
  • 1 T hot sauce I used Louisiana Hot Sauce*
  • 6 oz tomato paste
  • 1 can rotel 10 oz
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 bunch green onions chopped (for garnish)

Instructions

  • Add vegetable oil (or butter) to a pan. Heat over medium-high heat.
  • Once hot, add sliced sausage and cook until browned and crispy on the edges. Remove from heat and set aside.
  • In your crockpot, add chicken broth, tomato paste and rotel. Stir until combined.
  • Add diced onions, diced bell pepper, diced celery, minced garlic, gator and sausage. Stir to combine.
  • Add Cajun seasoning, hot sauce, and bay leaves. Again, stir to combine.
  • Cook, with lid on, on high for 3 hours. This should make the gator tender and shreddable if you want smaller bits.
  • Keeping meat and all ingredients in the pot, add rice and stir to combine.
  • Cook for an additional hour on high, or until rice is fully cooked. The rice will absorb all excess liquid and create a delicious jambalaya.
  • When finished stir well and remove bay leaves. Garnish with green onions. Enjoy!

Notes

*More can be added for spice. I add mine after because my family doesn’t like it as spicy as me.

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]]> https://wifeofahunter.com/crockpot-gator-jambalaya/feed/ 11 342 Gator-fil-a Nuggets and Gator-fil-a Sauce https://wifeofahunter.com/gator-fil-a-nuggets-and-gator-fil-a-sauce/ https://wifeofahunter.com/gator-fil-a-nuggets-and-gator-fil-a-sauce/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:07:10 +0000 https://wifeofahunter.com/?p=330 You ever plan on getting Chick-Fil-A and then realize it’s the Lord’s day? There is nothing worse than craving those delicious crispy nuggets from Chick-fil-a on a Sunday. I came up with a recipe that will hit the spot, but with a fun gator nuggets twist. Fill your Sunday Chick-fil-a cravings with some gator-fil-a nuggets!

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You ever plan on getting Chick-Fil-A and then realize it’s the Lord’s day? There is nothing worse than craving those delicious crispy nuggets from Chick-fil-a on a Sunday. I came up with a recipe that will hit the spot, but with a fun gator nuggets twist.

Gator-fil-a Nuggets and Gator-fil-a Sauce
Gator-fil-a Nuggets and Gator-fil-a Sauce
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Gator-fil-a Nuggets and Gator-fil-a Sauce

Fill your Sunday Chick-fil-a cravings with some gator-fil-a nuggets!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Fast Food
Keyword American, Chick-fil-a, Gator, Nuggets
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Marinate Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 50 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

Nuggets:

  • 2 lbs gator cut into bite size “nugget” pieces
  • 2 C milk
  • 1 C pickle juice
  • 3 eggs
  • 3.5 C flour
  • 6 T powdered sugar
  • 1 T corn starch
  • 4.5 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp fresh ground pepper
  • peanut oil enough to fry

Sauce:*

  • 1 C mayo
  • 4 tsp mustard
  • 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 4 T honey
  • 2 T BBQ sauce I used hickory flavor
  • 1 tsp paprika plus more to taste/color

Instructions

  • Mix milk, pickle juice and eggs together in a small bowl. Place gator in a Ziplock bag with the milk mixture.
  • Marinate 2-4 hours (the longer the marination time the more of a pickle flavor there will be).
  • In a shallow dish, like a pie dish, mix together the flour, powdered sugar, corn starch, salt and ground pepper.
  • Dredge the marinating nuggets in the flour mixture.
  • Heat 2 inches of peanut oil in a deep frying pan. When you drop a bit of the flour in, it should sizzle (~375 degrees).
  • Place the nuggets in the hot oil carefully. Cook until done and golden brown (~3-6 minutes).

Sauce:

  • Mix all of the sauce ingredients together.

Notes

*You can buy small bottles of Chick-fil-a sauce at many grocery stores and even Chick-fil-a.
Gator-fil-a Nuggets and Gator-fil-a Sauce

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