Wild Game Recipes
Alligator Ribs
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 6 pounds alligator ribs
- 32 ounces your favorite BBQ sauce
- Wood chips, for smoking
Instructions
- Brush alligator ribs with enough barbecue sauce to coat. Place ribs on a rack set in a baking pan. Cover with plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Bake for 3 hours.
- Remove alligator ribs from the oven.
- When cool enough to handle, remove the plastic wrap and cover loosely with the aluminum foil; allow the ribs to rest for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare a smoker with your favorite type of wood chips.
- Transfer the ribs to the smoker and smoke for 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the size of the ribs; alligator ribs are very lean and dry out easily, so you may want to remove smaller ribs from the smoker first.
- After smoking, coat the ribs with more barbecue sauce.
- While ribs are smoking, preheat a grill to medium-high.
- Place ribs on the grill and grill just until sauce begins to caramelize.
- Serve immediately.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from: louisianaseafood.com
Recipe courtesy of Alligator Alley.