Alligator Sauce Piquante
Recipe by: Ted Falgout, Retired - Former Director of Port Fourchon
For years and years, I owned and operated an alligator farm with my brother in addition to my role as director of Port Fourchon. This recipe is my trademark, award-winning dish served by my family at my favorite community festival, the Larose Civic Center's French Food Fest, and I am happy to have passed the tradition down to my sons!
Alligator Sauce Piquante Recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Place chopped onions, bell pepper, celery, shallots, garlic, and parsley in large pot on medium heat. Cook until onions are “clear.”
Add roux to the pot followed by golden mushroom sauce, mushroom steak sauce, and tomato sauce. Also, add canned diced tomatoes with green chiles, beef broth, and tomato paste and stir. Cook for 30 minutes.
Add cubed alligator meat and cook for another 30 minutes.
Add mushrooms, olives, hot sauce, seasonings, Worcestershire, lemons and bay leaves. Cook for 1 hour or until meat is tender.
Add cayenne pepper to taste. Serve over hot rice.
Some could say the coast is in my DNA! I had an adventurous childhood spent almost entirely outdoors, and I have a formal education in fisheries that led to a 30+ year professional career that encompassed the coastal ecosystem. I have spent my life along our working coast, and we have to protect it for my children and their children. - Ted Falgout
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Watch: Ted Falgout on the Importance of Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
Ted Falgout, the former director of Port Fourchon, talks to us about living in Barataria Basin and the changes he's seen in the wetlands over his lifetime and why he's a supporter of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. Read more.
Ingredients
Directions
Place chopped onions, bell pepper, celery, shallots, garlic, and parsley in large pot on medium heat. Cook until onions are “clear.”
Add roux to the pot followed by golden mushroom sauce, mushroom steak sauce, and tomato sauce. Also, add canned diced tomatoes with green chiles, beef broth, and tomato paste and stir. Cook for 30 minutes.
Add cubed alligator meat and cook for another 30 minutes.
Add mushrooms, olives, hot sauce, seasonings, Worcestershire, lemons and bay leaves. Cook for 1 hour or until meat is tender.
Add cayenne pepper to taste. Serve over hot rice.