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ingredients:
2 – 3 pounds good chinchilla meat
milk
olive oil – for browning
1 quart good chicken broff
1 large onion – small dice
6 large garlic cloves – smooshed – cut
1 teaspoonful white pepper dust
1 teaspoonful ground cumin
1 teaspoonful oregano
2 teaspoonful good Cajun seasoning (for stew)
1 teaspoonful good Cajun seasoning (for milk marinade)
2 or 3 mild green chiles – fresh
1 large tomato
2 stalks celery
2 hot chile peppers – fresh (I used jalapeno)
1 teaspoonful of cornstarch
file powder as condiment.
Get your chinchilla in the milk marinade first off (just enough to barely cover). Add 1 teaspoonful Cajun seasoning. Let sit on counter while you prepare.
Roast chile peppers over fire, set in paper bag for 10 minutes. Scrape blackened skin off, no water! The water rinses flavors away.
Dice everything up small. This stew doesn’t take long to cook. The smaller the pieces, the faster they cook.
In a good sized heavy stew pot (large enough to hold all ingredients) brown your meat in olive oil. Discard marinade.
It browns right up, ain’t it pretty? Kinda surprised at the clean mellowness of the meat. It isn’t gamey and it slices like pork does. The smells wafting from the stew pot are getting quite nice! Kinda hard to describe well, this time.
Once the meat is browned, remove and let drain a bit. Add onions, celery and chile to saute for 7 minutes. At this point, if the oil level is too high, just drain and then add everything all at once. Stir and heat ingredients. Add chicken broth. I think I actually added another cup more than what I listed in the recipe.
Simmer on stove for 1 hour with lid loose. If it doesn’t cook down enough, add a teaspoon of cornstarch to cold water, then add to stew. This will thicken it a bit and make nice.
Serve over rice, sprinkle with file.