Chef Travis Peters celebrates Sonoran Restaurant week with a 'fusion' love letter to his hometown and Louisiana
TUCSON, Ariz. -- — For Tasting Tucson, Chef Travis Peters crafted a loving ode to a Cajun classic made with ingredients you might find more easily in Southern Arizona.
They include chiltepin peppers and tepary beans. Even the protein source is a nod to the region's history, when Spanish missionaries came to the Sonoran desert. "Father Kino came across... and introduced goat and lamb to Tucson," Peters said, as he laid out each ingredient for the final dish."We made a little lamb secca for it."
Traditional gumbos incorporate okra, but to honor our desert climate, Peters picked something a little more prickly: nopal cactus pads. "When it cooks down, it doesn't have that viscosity that it gives out first," he said."Same thing with okra. When we cook it down, it just releases and thickens the stew."
A word of advice from Peters: don't walk too far away from the roux pot."It can burn really easy and it's one of those things that, if you scorch it a little bit, the whole thing's done," Peters said.
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