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Quail Recipes

Banker John
Banker John Posts: 583
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
Hi All, Been lurking from afar...
I had a wonderful opportunity and was invited to shoot quail at a family plantation earlier today. A good day (I got my first double!)... anyway -[p]Does anyone have any good recipes for cooking quail?[p]Banker John[p]p.s. Life is GRAND! Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it to the FL eggfest: it is Megan's 8th Birthday and she wants to see her "Grammie" (my mom) and go to Sweet Tomatoes.

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  • Speaking of MIA! It's Banker John! Nice to see your post. I bet Richard has a recipe for you and will post soon.
    We sure have missed your pizza mastery at the Eggfest. Happy Birthday to Megan. Jackson will also be 8 on the 22nd. Time flies. Best regards, Scott
  • Banker John,
    Congrats on the double. Hard to keep it together with the sound of that covey explosion. [p]There's probably lots more exotic recipes, but the best I ever had was quail and drop dumplins. The dumplins were like biscuits with golden butter down inside...all swimming around in some white gravy with whole quail breasts mixed in. Simply wonderful. Could be done on an egg in a dutch oven I guess. [p]My hunting partner's mother had our morning's birds cooked up for lunch for us. Then we'd go back out and shoot up some more.[p]Let us know how you do 'em.

  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    Busted. Was looking forward to your great pizza. Here is my quail recipe. You want more send your email addy to me.

    Quail, Bacon Wrapped, Stuffed, Richard Fl




    INGREDIENTS:
    6 Whole Quail
    *****OR*****
    1-2 Cornish Game Hens
    Stuffing
    3 cups Cooked Rice, Basmati preferred
    1/2 cup Pignole, Pine Nuts, Pecans, Walnuts, your choice
    1/2 cup Chutney
    1/4 cup Scallions
    Wrap
    12 Pieces Bacon
    SAUCE
    1 Jar Raspberry Jam 4-6 Oz. or Orange Marmalade
    Dijon Mustard
    Balsamic Vinegar
    Lemon Juice
    Salt/Pepper




    Procedure:
    1 Cook Rice, Basmati or Jasmine preferred, Use 1/3 orange juice by volume of total liquid used to cook rice.
    2 Mix cooked rice w/ nuts ( pignoles or pecans chopped), chutney, scallions, stuff quail, works well w/cornish game hens, just takes more. ingredients to stuff birds. Use: pepper, salt,poultry seasoning whatever you like for rub.. Stuff birds w/mixture.
    3 Wrap birds w/bacon , may take 2-3 pieces to totally wrap quail, cornish lay 2-3 pieces on breast and cook indirect breast up. For quail skewer w/large tooth picks or something else to hold the bacon.
    4 Place in oven baking dish on rack to keep drippings underneath or place on BGE and grill using indirect method. Bake 325-350 F for 40-50 minutes until bacon is crispy, Start quail birds breast down, and turn breast up 1/2 way into cook. "V" rack works well for cornish, cook breast up with bacon strips.
    Sauce
    1 Mix the sauce ingredients in a pan on low heat, add raspberry jam first. Tablespoon Dijon, Tablespoon Balsamic vinegar. Lemon juice and seasoning. Bring to slow boil and stir; adjust to your tastes. Orange marmalade may be substituted for the raspberry.
    2 Rest 10 minutes. Serve. If Egging be careful not to let the drippings flare and burn bacon/birds. Great reheated next day.


    Servings: 6
    Yield: 6
    Preparation time: 45 minutes
    Cooking time: 1 hour
    Ready in: 1 hour and 30 minutes

    Recipe Type
    Main Dish, Poultry

    Recipe Source
    Author: Richard Howe, 05/25/02

    Source: BGE Forum, Richard Fl, 2006/02/27
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Banker John,

    Spatchcocked wuth Tsunami Spin over a 350 fire is good, olive wood or cherry.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,880
    Glad to see you surface, John!

    Now, just between you and me knowing your love of squirrel shot from your upstairs window in college were these really "quails" or more like the pigeons that you dudes baited to get into range of your pellet guns? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
    Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
  • Michael B
    Michael B Posts: 986
    Banker John,[p]Click on [CHEF'S PAGE] and [HOME COOKING RECIPES]
    [ul][li]Cavendish Game Birds[/ul]