squirrel cooking

[jamaldog87]

do you guys know how to cook or what to do with it after you kill it to get it ready for cooking?

[flintlock]

Par-boil them in water for about 30 minutes, or until you can stick a fork in them...then batter like chicken and fry them up...If you like you can then make gravy for your biscuits....

[DaveH]

Par boil as above but after that quarter them put the pieces into a slow cooker with 4 cups of water, one large onion, salt and paper to taste cook for about two hours on high.  Then pourl out all the water that is left turn heat down to low and pour a bottle full of your favorite BBQ souce and cook on low until the meat falls off the bones.  Carefully pick out all the bones and you have a helva BBQ

[Dee]

Throw'em in a pot full of water, season them just like chicken and throw some dumplins in there too. 

[SQUACKS]

daveh:

 i made up a dutch oven full of squacks just like you mentioned using sweet baby rays last week and they was larrupin good!

 i have been making them that way for quite a few years and some bush's beans and hot fresh cornbread goes fine with it!

                                                                    luck!

[lefty red]

Uncle Verge's Squirrel

Take squirrel pieces and season them, then flour them.  Lightly brown them OVER MED/LOW HEAT.  Take squirrel out to drain.

In a dutch oven, or oven proof dish that's deep enough, place the browned squirrel in stacked up.  Cover squirrel with ENOUGH BEER TO BARELY COVER THE SQUIRREL.

Cover and cook in oven/dutch oven for about 1-1.5 hours on a MED heat. (350 oven)

The beer makes a tasty gravy and have some TENDER SQUIRREL!  Serve with biscuits.

I've subsituted the beer for chicken broth, wine, half and half.  My "go to" is half white wine and half chicken broth.

LEFTY

[ThunderStick]

     My favorite is squirrel pot pie!

    Got the recipe on the net some where, maby here, 

    Boil the meat off the bone and mix with two cans of cream of potato soup and one can of mixed vegies and season to taste. I like a little onion in mine also. Pour into a cheep pie shell and top with another, brush with egg white and bake at 350 untill brown. umum good!

PS the people I work with like it also, and they arn't hunters!

[Questor]

Because some are older and tougher than others I have gotten my best results with slow cooking. My favorite way to do squirrel is in a 9x13 baking pan covered in a home made thin barbecue sauce-line concoction. I bake it uncovered for 2.5 hours at 325. It's then falling off the bones tender and is easy to eat because you can separate the meat from the bones, then just concentrate on eating the meat. Done this way, it's as good as any meat I've had. The sauce is spicy, but doesn't mask the good flavor of the meat.

This approach works well with cottontails too. I'd like to try it with jackrabbits because I think it would work OK.

[halfshot]

Don't hunt  them until you know how to cookem

[streak]

Skin`em, cut up into regular pieces,legs,back, etc. Then season as desired, flour lightly and put into peanut oil in skillet and brown on both sides quickly. Depending on type and size of squirrel( big tough squirrels) take after they are browned and place in pressure cooker under about 12-15 lbs. of pressure for 8-10 minutes. Meat should be tender and about to fall of off the bones. If small to medium squirrels( cat squirrels) after they have been browned place in covered electric skillet with a small amount of water and set heat where they can simmer in the steam for about 20-30 minutes.
Drain peanut oil from skillet and use remaining dredges in bottom of skillet to make either brown or
milk white gravy. Fix mash potatoes, biscuits, and fresh carrot and cabbage cole slaw, and serve with your favorite beverage!!

[burntmuch]

Skin em. put a stick thru them cook em slow over the fire

[Gene R]

Boil them in chicken broth with a diced onion and celery with a little salt and pepper.Once the meat is falling off the bone, drain broth (use broth to boil rice in).
Take meat, onion and celery and mix with rice add salt and pepper as needed.

And fried hine quarters are good too...............Kinda like drumetts

[S.S.]

Skin em. put a stick thru them cook em slow over the fire

Gotta sprinkle some lemon/pepper and garlic salt on them too.
Really a bummer the Squirrel season is over....

[223fan]

Boil them for little bit,quarter them up, roll them in flour, salt and pepper them, throw them in a skillet with some oil or lard and fry them.It just doesn't get any better than this.

[hillbill]

now thats sum good eatin.

[Rock Home Isle]

do you guys know how to cook or what to do with it after you kill it to get it ready for cooking?

A few years ago my son and I got into a passal of the little critters. We were hunting along the Bog Thompson River here in Colorado. He was using his little .22 and I was stalking along with a .32 calibre Blue Ridge Rifle. It was amazing, we ended the morning with 8 squirrels between us and for our area that was awesome.

My wife prepared the squirrels in the crock pot.

4 Squirrels quartered.
1 onion chopped
1 teaspoon chopped garlic
1 can of Cream of Mushroom Soup
Place the squirrel parts in the crock pot. Mix the ingrediants well before adding to the crockpot. Cover the squirrel parts well. Set the crock pot on low and cook during the day. Should be nice and tender when you get home...wonderful meal and goes well with peas, corn or a baked potatoe.

[tacklebury]

I always parboil them as above, then in a big pot put 2 cans of Campbell's Cream of Potatoe Soup, 2 cans water, 1/2 cup chopped celery, 1/2 cup chopped carrots, 1/2 tsp white pepper, 1/2 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp black pepper and let it simmer.  After about 2 hours, smells and tastes great.  My grandmother swore she'd never eat one of my "rats", so one afternoon while she and Grandpa were in town, I cooked up 8 or so this way.  When they got home that afternoon, they came in and she said, "Oh, that smells so good!  Can we have some?"  Course, I didn't mention what it was but told her, "Sure!".  As she was about 1/2 way through the 2nd bowl, it dawned on her that she didn't know what it was and finally asked.  When I told her, she just said, "Who'd 'ave thunk it!"  Needless to say, my squirrel no longer had to be kept in the back room fridge and she even cooked some for me.    This method works equally well with red squirrels and I use them up in this manner.  No limit on those, so once I've bagged my Foxies for the day, I jump into the other side of our woods and hit the reds. 

[223fan]

I done the samething to my mother and sister in law but it was ground hog.

[Uncle Howie]

Don't hunt  them until you know how to cookem

  I would imagine that's why he asked the question... to gain some knowledge!

Besides, you don't "know" how to cook them until you've actually done it... which requires harvesting the game first.

Give the guy a break, he came here to learn, presumably because he's an ethical hunter and trying to do things "right."

[Rock Home Isle]

do you guys know how to cook or what to do with it after you kill it to get it ready for cooking?

Once the squirrel has been prepared for cooking, I cook it during the day in a crock pot while I'm at work. Couple cups of water, diced onion, diced carrots, celery and a chopped potato or two. Salt and pepper to taste and this makes for a nice squirrel stew.
 
De-bone the meat before serving, after a day in the crock pot the meat just falls off the bones.

[tacklebury]

Recently ran into a new and it turned out to be pretty good flavored recipe for sweet & sour squirrel.  Just dump a can of small chunk pineapple juice and all, a small jar of marachino (sp*) cherries juice and all, a cup of apple cider vinegar and simmer in a crock-pot for a few hours bones and all.  Add a little water if it starts getting real thick, then once the meat's coming off the bones, it's pretty easy to use a small slotted spoon to get out the bones.  We did it with just hind quarters, so no really small bones.  Was really good.

[jakeemt]

Jake whit squirrel chili.
 
you will need 4-6 squirrels.

soak whole (-head/tail/paws) squirrels in a salt water brine for 4 hours.
in a large pot bring squirrels to a boil then simmer for 1 1/2-2 hours until meat comes easily off the bone. Remove meat from the bone ( your hands work best). set meat aside.

other ingredients-
2 medium yellow onions
2 large bell peppers (one red one green)
1 tbl spoon cayane pepper
1 tbl spoon ground chipotle peppers
1/2 tbl spoon of ground cumin
3 cans of great northen beans
1/2 quart of chicken broth
1/2 tbl spoon salt
4 tsp minced garlic
1 can white corn
chop and cook onions and peppers until soft
combine with all other ingredients mix and cook on med-low heat (covered)
for 1-1 1/2 hours

enjoy

[Rock Home Isle]

jakeemt...I think I will enjoy that recipe. Thank you for posting it. 

[dxtsniper]

Par boil as above but after that quarter them put the pieces into a slow cooker with 4 cups of water, one large onion, salt and paper to taste cook for about two hours on high.  Then pourl out all the water that is left turn heat down to low and pour a bottle full of your favorite BBQ souce and cook on low until the meat falls off the bones.  Carefully pick out all the bones and you have a helva BBQ

Gonna ad my own here. Fix as above but instead of the bbq add hot wing sauce! I have also had squirrel fixed just like hot wings and it was great as long as they are young and tender. Thanks for all the great resps. guys. This is definately gettin saved to favorites!