Moonlite BBQ Inn Burgoo

Yield: 3 gallons

Ingredients

• 4 pounds mutton
• 1 (3 pound) chicken
• Water
• 3/4 pound cabbage, ground or chopped fine
• 3/4 pound onion, ground or chopped fine
• 5 pounds potatoes, peeled and diced
• 2 (17 ounce) cans corn or 2 cups fresh corn
• 3/4 cup ketchup
• 3 (10 3/4 ounce) cans tomato puree
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 3/4 cup distilled vinegar
• 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 2 1/2 tablespoons salt, or to taste
• 2 tablespoons black pepper
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (more if you like)

Instructions

1. Boil mutton in enough water to cover. Cook until tender, 2 to 3 hours.
2. Discard broth and bones. Chop meat fine. Set aside.
3. Boil chicken in 2 gallons of water in a large kettle until tender. Remove chicken.
4. Add cabbage, onion, potatoes, corn, ketchup and 1 gallon water to chicken broth. (If you are following the area cook's, add those ingredients now.) Bring to a boil.
5. Meanwhile, chop chicken meat. Discard bones and skin.
6. When potatoes are tender, add chopped chicken, mutton, tomato puree, lemon juice, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper. Simmer for 2 hours or longer, stirring occasionally as it thickens.

Notes

Some area cooks add dried beans or lima beans, tomatoes and a little boiled shredded beef or wild game.

Attribution

Moonlite BBQ Inn, Owensboro, Kentucky