Oven Smoked Pheasant
By
Vicki Butts (lazyme)
@lazyme5909
5
Found this on the Progressive Farmer Online. I haven't made this recipe so all of the times are estimates.
Rating:
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Serves:
2-3
Prep:
30 Min
Cook:
1 Hr 30 Min
Method:
Bake
Ingredients
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1/2 cground pork sausage, crumbled
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2 3/4 lbpheasant, dressed
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1/2 capple, chopped
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1 csoft bread crumbs
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2 Tbsponion, chopped
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1/8 tspsalt
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1/4 tspfreshly ground black pepper
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1/3 chot water
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1/4 cbutter, melted
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1/4 tspliquid smoke flavoring
How to Make Oven Smoked Pheasant
- Brown sausage in a small skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
- Drain well.
- Rinse pheasant with cold water; pat dry.
- Combine sausage, apple, and next 5 ingredients; spoon mixture into cavity.
- If excess skin is intact, close cavity with skewers and truss with heavy cord.
- Place pheasant, breast side down, on a rack in a roasting pan.
- Cover with aluminum foil.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
- Turn pheasant breast side up.
- Combine butter and liquid smoke; brush over pheasant.
- Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour or until meat thermometer registers 180 degrees.
- Baste with butter mixture every 15 minutes.
