Alligator Sausage And Shrimp Cheescake Recipe

Ingredients

Crust:

1 cup bread crumbs

1 cup parmesan cheese grated

4 oz butter melted

11/2 lbs cream cheese, softened

3 eggs

3/4 cup heavy cream

1 cup smoked gouda cheese, grated

1 onion diced

1 green pepper diced

1 red pepper diced

1 yellow pepper diced

1 lb alligator sausage diced (remove sausage from casing first)

1/2 lb raw shrimp diced

2 tsp Paul’s Seafood Magic

2 tsp chipotle powder

Preparation

Mix bread crumbs and cheese, add melted butter. Combine and press into a 10" spring pan. Bake 10 minutes in 400º oven to set crust.

Whisk cream cheese until smooth. Add eggs, whisk, add cream and gouda. Mix well. (I do this in a processor).

Saute` veggies with 2 tbsp oil or butter until soft, add seafood magic and chipotle powder, add shrimp, cook until just done. In a separate pan, cook the sausage that has been removed from the casing and brown it well; drain and combine with veggies and cooked shrimp. Fold this into the cheese mixture.

Pour mixture into prepared pan. Wrap pan with foil to prevent leakage. Bake cheese cake in a water bath on the bottom rack of a 375º oven 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Remove when a knife inserted to the center of the cheese cake comes out clean and the filling is set. Serve warm.