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You guys were so great about my vest question, I thought I'd ask about cooking quail. Shot my first few yesterday morning at a preserve. Have experience with just about all other upland but have never cooked quail. Any suggestions?
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Different quail taste different - I suppose it depends upon what they eat.
A few recommendations: A Hunter's Cookbook by Cuthbert and Eastham has great recipes and is very well illustrated. It covers most game including birds. They have some nice quail recipes including quail and saurkraut.
Then, look at the archives of The Field and the Shooting Times magazine. Over the years they have had great recipes by Mark Hinge.
I do not have the patience to pluck these birds so I only take the breasts, same as with grouse. This year I want to try a grouse pie with grouse liver on toast but that would mean making grouse stock and that would mean plucking grouse and that would mean hanging them....
I think the grouse pie recipe is an old one from The Field If I find it I'll post the reference.
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I cook them two ways:
1. Wrapped in bacon and thown on the grill.
2. Covered with a good dry rub and grilled. Those who have attended the Southern SxS in Sanford the last two years can attest to the dry rubbed and grilled meathod. I cooked 80 quail at the L.C. Smith Collectors' Association Hospitality Tent in 2011 and another 60 quail and about 25 pheasant this year. I had a hard time cooking them fast enough to keep everyone happy.
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Wrapped in bacon always works, on just about everything. If you want to be a bit more elegant, try this:
Pluck and clean the birds, leaving the skin intact. Wash and pat dry. Rub the insides and outsides of the birds generously with olive oil and honey. Stuff the cavities with chopped apples and onions, then tie the legs together to keep your stuffing from falling out of the cavity. If you lightly brown the apples and onions before stuffing, that's even better. Brown the birds on a grill, or slide them into the oven at 325-350 in a roasting pan. The sugars in the honey carmelize nicely and the olive oil keeps them from drying out. You can even wrap these in bacon or just lay a half slice of bacon over each bird if you oven roast them.
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aunt ruby used tu roll em in flouer and slow fry erm in crisco, covered, til de was most tender...salt and pepper was all the seasonin she ever used...as i recall.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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With a small paring knife, filet the breasts from the bone. Remove thigh and leg intact from backbone by disjointing thigh and cutting meat away from backbone. No need to debone thigh or drumstick. All this is done easily if birds are skinned. In a hot skillet, saute meat in olive oil a few minutes per side. Salt and pepper when done. Don't over cook. The meat will taste like quail rather than bacon. This is quail at its simplest. If desired, chop a little garlic and saute in pan with quail.
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GLS, if I may: after removing the meat from pan deglaze with some port and add some cream. Serve on a slice of bread fried in butter till golden on both sides with the port sauce on top.
JC
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I've been eating bobwhite quail all my life. The wild ones have a different taste from the pen-raised birds. My favorite has always been skinned seasoned with salt and pepper then rolled in flour and pan fried like chicken...Geo
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I've been eating bobwhite quail all my life. The wild ones have a different taste from the pen-raised birds. My favorite has always been skinned seasoned with salt and pepper then rolled in flour and pan fried like chicken...Geo +1 best fried in fresh bacon grease, with biscuits and milk gravy.
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There are some recipes here . JC
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