Cooking Sandhill Crane Recipe

Some just cook it like a rib eye steak but here is a recipe that everyone even the kids will enjoy.

Cooking sandhill crane recipe. Cook crane until nicely browned just as with all waterfowl do not over cook as meat is thin it will cook very quickly depending on how hot your coals are. Dry meat and cut into bite sized pieces. 3 4 lb. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees when you are ready to cook the breast melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a pan and sear the breast skin side down to start.

3 cup stock extra if needed. Bone in sandhill crane legs 3 4 birds oil for cooking. 1 2 cup rice wine vinegar. Sandhill crane recipe ingredients sandhill breast.

Next put the breast on a pre heated grill and cook over high heat searing the breast for 2 3 minutes per side until rare to medium rare. Roughly crush the peppercorns and rub them into the crane breast wrap in plastic wrap and let sit in the fridge for a few hours. Cooking the sandhill crane. Place the seasoned crane breasts on your soaked cedar planks and place them on the grill.

Cook indirectly for 30 45 minutes until the internal temperature of the breast reaches 120 125 degrees. Cut bacon strips in half crosswise and wrap each piece of crane with a section of bacon securing with a toothpick in the center. Warm a pan on medium heat on the stove and add a 1 2 a. Liberally coat breast in wild game rub ensuring meat is covered but rub is not caking off the breast.

Red chile powder used to make rub 1 tsp. Ingredients mushroom cream sauce. Grilled sandhill crane breast 2 sandhill crane breasts meat off one bird and you get two beautiful steaks from one bird olive oil used to rub on the cleaned up breast meat prior to putting rub on 1 tsp. I start out with the montreal steak seasoning and slap ya mama cajun seasoning.

Now that your big green egg is at a stable temperature close to 300 degrees it is time to cook the meat. 1 bunch green onions roughly chopped reserve tops for garnish 4 garlic cloves smashed with back of knife or mortar and pestle. 1 knob of fresh ginger minced. With a consistency and flavour more akin to beef than to bird this e.

Brine crane breasts for 24 hours in enough water to cover the breasts with 3 5 tablespoons of salt. Mix all rub ingredients together thoroughly then on a plate brush olive oil on sandhill crane breast. Cooking the mushroom cream sauce. This pre meal entree goes very well with a fine bottle of your favorite beer.

Also known as the ribeye of the sky sandhill crane makes for truly amazing table fare. 3 4 cup ponzu or light soy sauce. Season lightly with salt and pepper.