Title: Rick's Smothered Turtle, Cajun Style
Categories: Meat
Yield: 4 Servings

2	lb	Turtle steaks
1		Salt
1		Ground black pepper
2	lg	Sweet onions
1	lg	Sweet pepper
4	md	Tomatoes
3		Bay leaves
1		Clove garlic, crushed
1	c	Mushrooms
2		Lemons

Trim turtle steaks into 1 1/2-inch squares, season well with salt and pepper, squeeze lemons over meat and let stand awhile. Add plenty of chopped onion, sweet pepper, chopped, 4 tomatoes cut into eighths, 3 bay leaves, crushed garlic clove and mushrooms. Moisten well with stock made by boiling salted turtle trimmings and smother very slowly in a tightly covered skillet until turtle is tender. Serve with big mounds of rice. This will feed 4 farm boys.

Rick Lewis

Grand Old Palate Wayne County Republican Women's Club Goldsboro, North Carolina

MM Format by John Hartman Indianapolis, IN 12 August 1997

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