Betty’s Pheasant Baked in Cream
2 pheasants,
cut up
1 1/2 cups of bisquick or flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning (or spice of your choice like thyme)
1 cup milk or buttermilk
1/4 cup butter
1-2 cans of chicken broth
1 pint of whipping cream
Cut pheasant
into separate pieces (breast, drumstick, thigh), you will end up with 12 pieces
(discard the wings). Mix bisquick
and seasonings in plastic bag. Dip
pheasant pieces in milk and drop into plastic bag with seasonings and shake to
thoroughly coat. Melt butter in
frying pan and brown coated pheasant pieces.
When all pieces have browned, transfer pheasant to a roaster pan or oven
proof dish. Add 1 can of chicken
broth and bake for 1 1/2 hours in 325 degree oven.
Check periodically for liquid, if dry add more chicken broth.
After 1 1/2 hours of baking, pour 1 pint of whipping cream over the
pheasant. Bake another 45 minutes to
1 hour, check to make sure whipping cream doesn’t dry up (especially if you
want some gravy).
Adjust seasoning to desired taste. Serve with wild rice and cranberry orange relish.
Betty’s Easy Wild Rice
1/2 lb wild
rice
4-6 cups of water
1/4 cup butter
1 cup celery (chopped)
1 cup yellow onion (chopped)
Salt & pepper to taste
Add rice to 4-6 cups of water. Bring to a boil, let boil for 1/2 hour and drain water. Add another 4-6 cups of water to rice and repeat process until water is clean and/or rice has popped (this could take several hours). Sauté celery and onion in butter. Add celery and onion to wild rice and salt and pepper to taste.
Cranberry Orange Relish
1 bag of
frozen cranberries
1 orange
1/2 or 1 cup sugar
In food chopper, chop one bag of frozen cranberries and one orange with rind on. Add 1/2 to 1 cup of sugar. Mix thoroughly. Refrigerate overnight.
Oakwood’s Deep Fried Pheasant Nuggets
Breast meat
of pheasants
2 eggs
Shore Lunch
Cube or cut in strips the breast meat of pheasants. Whisk eggs and dip meat into egg mixture. Roll in shore lunch or your favorite batter mix. Cook in deep fryer until done or nice and golden brown.
Smoked Pheasant Spread
8 oz Philly
cream cheese
1/2
jar (3.75 oz) whipped horseradish
All the breast meat from one smoked pheasant
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
Soften cream
cheese to room temperature. Cut
breast meat from pheasant and chop fine or put in food chopper and pulse a few
times. Mix the pheasant with the
cream cheese until well blended, then add the horseradish and garlic powder.
Refrigerate several hours or overnight.
Serve with crackers.
P.O. Box 274
Princeton, MN 55371
Phone: (800) 328-6647
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September 10, 2007
Maintained By: Oakwood Game Farm