Title: Alligator sauce piquant
 Categories: Allegator, Cajun, Main dish
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
      4 lb Cubed alligator meat
    1/2 c  Chopped celery
      1 c  Flour
    1/2 c  Chopped bell pepper
      1 c  Oil
      8 oz Can chopped mushrooms
      4 tb Butter
      1 c  Water
      2 md Chopped onions
      1    Jar salad olives
    1/2 ts Sugar
    1/4 c  Chopped parsley
      1 cn Tomato paste
    1/4 c  Chopped scallions
           To taste salt & cayenne
           -Pepper
 
  *** Soak meat with Tabasco and lemon juice for 30 minutes prior to
  cooking. Rinse before cooking. Make roux with 1 cup oil and 1 cup
  flour and cook until golden. Saute onions in roux until brown. Add
  tomato paste and sugar and cook about 5 minutes. Add bell pepper,
  celery, garlic, mushrooms and stir well. Add water and cook 1 hour
  over low heat. Add scallions, parsley, alligator (cut in small
  pieces, and preferably meat other than from the tail) salt, pepper
  and cayenne to taste. Cover pot and cook slowly for 30 minutes or
  until meat is tender. Add olives which have been soaked in water and
  cook a few minutes longer.
  
  Serve over cooked rice