BurgooWHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Well it's great stuff and very regional to Western KY and TN.
Here's a small batch recipe if you have left over BBQ otherwise this is made in very large batches and you can freeze what you don't eat. We make it in a outdoor iron kettle about 50-100 gallons at a time. I also make smaller batches of about 25 to 35 gallons.
But here is my Crock Pot version .... about a gallon or so.
INGREDIENTS:
* 1 or 2 BBQ'd chicken, 3 to 4 pounds boned and chopped.
* 1 1/2 pounds of BBQ pork or Mutton or both. also chopped or shredded.
* 3 cups chicken broth, homemade is best but store bought works.
* 2 cups beef broth. Canned is fine.
* 2 cups water or beer.
* 1 1/2 or more teaspoons coarsely ground MIXED pepper corns.
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
* 1 can (about 29 ounces) tomato puree
* 12 potatoes, diced.
* 2 cups chopped onion
* 1 medium head cabbage, finely chopped
* 3 cans (14.5 oz each) diced tomatoes (Rotel Brand)
* 3 cans (12 to 15 oz each) whole kernel corn, drained
* 1 pound carrots, sliced
* 1 cup fresh sliced okra
* 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen butterbeans or lima beans
* 2 or 3 green peppers, finely chopped ( Red and Yellow are fine too)
* 2 to 4 teaspoons sea salt, to taste
* More ground pepper near the end of cooking, pepper flavor cooks out.
* 1/4 to 1/2 cup Homemade BBQ sauce (Not that nationally sold crap.) Local BBQ house brand is ok to use.
PREPARATION:
Smoke chicken, pork and mutton ... if you don't know how to smoke go buy it. This takes several hours, bring beer.
Left over BBQ is fine if you have it, put everything in crock pot and cook on low all day, refresh the pepper near the end of cooking or check for flavor. I never check anything, I've made about half million gallons of it in my life time.
Serve with cracker and a beer or two and enjoy ... nothing and I mean nothing that comes out of a can is even in this stuff league. It's great.
NOTE: Burgoo has no set recipe, it has a basic concept of a BBQ stew, traditional Burgoo is made with rabbit, squirrel, mutton, beef, chicken, pork, and about any other meat you can get. Any and all veggies, broth, sauce and seasoning. Ask 100 people and get a 100 different ways to make it.
