--- title: "Cooking with Gator: 7 Tips and Tricks" description: If wild recipes are your thing, you may be interested in what Wild Florida has to say about the different ways to cook with gator. image: https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/DSC-0028-2_800x532.jpg --- orlando's only airboat, gator & drive-thru safari park ![Clock](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/Clock-icon-white.svg "Clock") 9AM-6PM | CLOSED ON SUNDAYS ![Tickets](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/ticket-icon-white.svg "Tickets") [tickets ](https://www.wildfloridairboats.com/buy-wild-florida-tickets) ![Faq](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/faq-icon-white.svg "Faq") [FAQs ](https://www.wildfloridairboats.com/wild-florida-faq) ![Contact](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/contact-icon-white.svg "Contact") [contact ](https://www.wildfloridairboats.com/contact-us) [![WFAP-LOGO_COLOR-1](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hs-fs/hubfs/WFAP-LOGO_COLOR-1.png?width=120&height=87&name=WFAP-LOGO_COLOR-1.png "WFAP-LOGO_COLOR-1")](https://www.wildfloridairboats.com/) ![Search Icon](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/search-icon.svg) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. ![Close](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/Wild_Florida_Airboats_October2023/images/x_icon.jpg) # 7 ways to cook with gator [ Alligators](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/topic/alligators), [ Chomp House Grill](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/topic/chomp-house-grill) [ Posted by Sam Haught ](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/author/sam-haught) on June 9,2015 09:47:AM For a meat that is supposed to taste a lot like chicken, it's not always cheap, but it sure is popular. [Demand](http://www.wsj.com/articles/alligatorthe-other-other-white-meat-1430782592) is pushing the wholesale price of alligator meat to $12 to $15 a pound. Although most commonly served fried as gator "nuggets", alligator is said to have a veal-like quality and can be easily substituted for any dish containing seafood, chicken, or pork. One possible reason behind the rise in popularity of eating gator is the amount of [protein](http://www.livestrong.com/article/429395-nutritional-facts-on-alligator-meat/) packed into the meat. A 3.5 ounce of alligator contains 46 grams of protein, double the amount contained in a comparable serving size of beef. There are more than 30 alligator farms in Florida, although some of the alligator meat sold is from wild caught gators. Florida, with an estimated 1.2 million alligators, has the second highest number of gators in the nation (after Louisiana!). ![cooking with alligator meat](https://blog.wildfloridairboats.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DSC-0028-2_800x532.jpg?width=607&name=DSC-0028-2_800x532.jpg "cooking with alligator meat") So, besides gator nuggets, how do you prepare alligator? We’ve come up with 7 ways to cook with gator. 1. **Fried Alligator with Chili Garlic Mayonnaise** – Who said gator and fine dining don't belong in the same sentence? Well, maybe no one, but this recipe also contains links to other gator recipes, and a primer on cooking with alligator. 2. **Alligator Stewed in Sauce Piquant** – You have to figure we would get around to a [recipe](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/alligator-stewed-in-sauce-piquant-recipe.html) from Louisiana’s most recognizable chef, Emeril Lagasse, who recently popped into St. Cloud to do a taping for Emeril’s Florida on the Cooking Channel. 3. **Grilled alligator meat** – Summer. Grill. Gator. Mmm. Check out this [recipe](http://www.lacrawfish.com/showrecipe.aspx?recipe=grilled-alligator-meat) for grilled gator. 4. **Gator burgers with sautéed Florida peppers** – Here is another grill [recipe](http://www.freshfromflorida.com/Recipes/Seafood/Alligator/Gator-Burgers-with-Sauteed-Florida-Peppers), only this is for burgers. This recipe is from a [collection](http://www.freshfromflorida.com/Recipes/Seafood/Alligator) of gator recipes prepared by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Talk about the pros who know alligators putting together some goods in the kitchen for us! 5. **Gator Tail Picadillo** – Besides getting a link to this [recipe](http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/11/12/best-alligator-recipes/), there is some information about alligator and tips on how to cook it from Andrew Zimmern, who hosts The Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods shows, and talks about [cooking](http://andrewzimmern.com/2013/03/27/bizarre-bites-alligator-meat/) with alligator on his website. 6. **Alligator Chili** – It’s one of the [recipes](http://allrecipes.com/recipe/alligator-chili/) we found pinned on a board of gator recipes on [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/wbarfarmandranc/gator-recipes/). And there are surprisingly a LOT of those. 7. **General Tso’s Alligator** – Alligator gets an Asian twist in this [recipe](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/general-tsos-gator-alligator-and-snap-peas-with-kumquat-3-2-1-sauce-spicy-peanut-rice-recipe.html) from the Food Network’s Ming Tsai.  If want to put a bite on a gator and stay out of the kitchen, you can always get gator from our Chomp House Grill! 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