KENTUCKY BURGOO 
12 chicken wings (or breast, 1 1/2 lb. chicken)
1 med. chopped onion
5 c. water
1 can (1 lb.) stewed tomatoes
2 tbsp. steak sauce
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
3 1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 lb. ground beef (or turkey)
1 sm. cabbage, shredded
2 cans (1 lb. each) mixed vegetables
2 c. instant potato flakes (may take less)
Mushrooms (optional)

1. Combine water, onion, tomatoes, steak sauce, chicken (you can bake breasts then tear into pieces and add to kettle), pepper and salt in large heavy kettle. Heat to boiling - lower and simmer 30 minutes.

2. Mix ground meat with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Shape into 18 balls.

3. Add mixed vegetables, cabbage - bring to boil. Add meat balls - lower heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in potato flakes to thicken. Add mushrooms if you wish.

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Kentucky Burgoo
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 H R Reno (Florida) says:
Sounds OK. I grew up in Kentucky, and in my pre-adolescent days I spent a lot of time on my grandfather's small retirement farm in Basket Station near Henderson. The small churches in those times, around 1950, used to have fund raising burgoo dinners, and my grandmother, no mean cook, used to make a large batch of burgoo every fall and put it up by home canning to eat through the winter. As I recall, it basically contained some or all of the vegetables she raised in the garden with a lot of chicken and pork. We had cows for milk but we never killed them for beef. Maybe some rabbit and squirrel. We hunted and ate both. The only product put in that wonderful stew not raised on that farm was salt. It was hot and spicy enough but it was from farm raised peppers, not from Tobasco or some other commercial hot sauce. So, the recipe: Put in whatever you have or can get, make sure the meat is boned, and cook long and slow until it is a mush.

 

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