Flint Ridge Pheasant Recipes

PHEASANT WITH WILD RICE

Steps:

• Cut pheasant into quarters.
• Dredge pieces in flour.
• Melt butter in oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add pheasant, and cook until browned on both sides, turning once.
• Add onion and next 7 ingredients.
• Put oven-safe skillet in oven.
• Bake, covered, at 350°F for 1 1/2 hours or until tender.
• Remove pheasant from skillet, and keep warm.
• Cook pan drippings in skillet over medium-high heat until reduced to 2 cups.
• Serve with pheasant and rice.

FLINT RIDGE PHEASANT

Steps:

• Put the wild rice in 9x9x2-inch baking dish that has been sprayed with nonstick vegetable spray.
• Layer the carrots over the wild rice.
• In large skillet, cook bacon until crisp; drain and crumble over the carrots.
• Pour off grease from skillet and add a tablespoon or two of oil.
• Saute the pheasant until well browned on both sides (about 10 minutes).
• Transfer to baking dish.
• In same skillet, saute the mushrooms and green onions until tender, adding additional oil if needed.
• Add soup, cream and sherry, and mix well.
• Add mozzarella and gently stir in artichokes.
• Spread over the pheasant layer.
• Sprinkle with Parmesan.
• Cover dish with foil sprayed with nonstick vegetable spray.
• Bake at 350° for 30 minutes; remove foil and bake 15 more minutes until bubbly throughout.

PHEASANT IN ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Wash pheasant and pat dry.
• Sprinkle on both sides with paprika.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a skillet and cook pheasant on both sides till browned.
• Add more butter if needed.
• Mix water and bouillon and pour over pheasant.
• Lower heat and cover and simmer for thirty minutes until tender.
• Add water if needed and turn meat several times.
• Combine remaining ingredients.
• Let liquid on pheasant cook away and then baste orange sauce over the meat.
• Simmer uncovered and baste frequently for 10-15 minutes.
• Serves 2. Great served with rice.

CHICKEN FRIED PHEASANT

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl, mix the milk and vinegar. Dip the pheasant slices in the milk and vinegar mixture, then press both side in the cracker crumbs to coat.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the pheasant in the hot oil about 5 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.

CREAMED PHEASANT

Steps:

• Fry pheasant in oil until brown.
• Take out of pan.
• To pan add flour and bouillon dissolved in 1/2 cup water.
• Add soup, sour cream, half-and-half, 1 cup water, and salt and pepper.
• Add pheasant and bake at 350° until pheasant is tender.

FRIED PHEASANT

Steps:

• Cut Pheasant Meat from Carcass (I just used the Breast and Thigh Meat Tossing all those little feet far away).
• Rinse Throughly and place in Bowl.
• Salt, Pepper and Season Pheasant turning the meat over to make sure all gets covered.
• Cover bowl and place in fridge for at least 4 hours.
• In Large Heavy Skillet (I used Grandma's Cast Iron) put oil and heat on high until ready to fry.
• Retrieve Pheasant from Fridge.
• In a shallow bowl scramble eggs.
• In another shallow bowl (or plate) put flour in an even layer.
• Dip Pheasant pieces in egg first then coat with flour.
• Place in hot oil and brown on either side (lower heat to medium here so as not to burn the oil).
• The pheasant cooks REALLY fast and is SO tender and moist.
• Carrots and a green salad was an excellent addition to this meal!