Alligator Sauce Piquante - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cans tomato sauce
1/2 c. chopped bell peppers
1/2 c. chopped green onions
1 (10 oz.) can mushroom soup
1 (12 oz.) can V-8 vegetable juice
1 bay leaf
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/8 tsp. oregano
2 Tbsp. Lea & Perrins sauce
3 large onions, chopped
1/2 c. cooking oil
1 c. flour
5 lb. gator meat

Preparation

Make roux using 1/2 cup oil and 1 cup flour.
When roux is golden brown, add onions and simmer for 5 minutes. Add tomato sauce and simmer for 1 hour. Do not add water.
In another pot, brown seasoned gator meat.
After tomato sauce and onions have simmered for 1 hour, add gator meat, bell peppers, green onions, cream of mushroom soup, V-8 juice, bay leaf, garlic, oregano, Lea & Perrins and 3 quarts of water.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 hours.
Serve over steamed rice.