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Cajun Meat Muffins With Hot And Sweet Filling Recipe


Cajun Meat Muffins With Hot And Sweet Filling Recipe
This recipe grew out of my frustration making meat pies. After making "Beef and Biscuit" a few times I decided to adapt the concept a bit and create single servings filled with Chef Paul's amazing fillings. This recipe requires that you h... More

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Ingredients
  • 2 packages "Grands" biscuit dough or other large size biscuit dough.
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 lb ground pork
  • 1/2 lb ground beef
  • 1/4 lb (1 stick) unsalted butter
  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped onions
  • 1 /12 cups finely chopped green bell peppers
  • 3/4 cup finely chopped celery
  • 1/2 cup very finely chopped fresh cayenne peppers or jalapeƱo peppers.
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
  • 1 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground red pepper (preferably cayenne)
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
  • 1 cup chicken stock, or water
  • 1 cup candied sweet potatoes
  • Shredded monteray jack cheese.

Directions
  1. preheat over to 350.
  2. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat.
  3. Add the pork and cook about 2 minutes, stirring constantly and breaking up the meat chunks.
  4. Stir in the beef and cook till no pink color remains.
  5. Add the butter, onions, bell peppers, celery, peppers, garlic and seasonings.
  6. stir until throughly mixed.
  7. Cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently to break up any remaining meat chunks and scraping pan bottom well.
  8. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
  9. Remove cover and cook for 5 minutes more continuing to crape the pan bottom well.
  10. Add the candied sweet potatoes and with thier juice.
  11. Stir well, breaking up the potatoes into smaller chunks.
  12. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
  13. Remove from heat.
  14. Cool to room temperature and remove bay leaves.
  15. While filling is cooling, split the dough for each biscuit into an upper and a lower half.
  16. Take each lower half and roll them out on a lightly floured surface.
  17. Line the bottom and sides of each muffin slot in the tin with the rolled biscuit dough.
  18. Fill to the top with filling
  19. Top with the other half of each biscuit.
  20. Sprinkle cheese on top.
  21. Bake until the cheese on top is a golden brown (approx. 15-20 minutes.)

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