Smoked Pheasant Dip Food

SMOKED PHEASANT CHOWDER

Steps:

• Debone pheasant and reserve bones. Chop bones. To a sauce pan add bacon and cook until brown. Add carrots, onion, celery, garlic and cook mixture. Add flour. Stir until brown. Add bones and enough chicken stock to cover mixture. Cover, cook for 1 1/2 hours. Strain and reserve.;
• In a pot, add bacon and oil and cook until brown. Add all vegetables and brown. Add cilantro, meat and stock and simmer until vegetables are cooked.
• Season with spices.

PHEASANT SPREAD

Steps:

• Place all in food processor.
• Pulse a few times until well mixed.
• Chill or grab the crackers right now.
• (Cook time is time needed to boil pheasant in salt-seasoned water).

GRILLED PHEASANT POPPERS

Steps:

• Cut the pheasant breast into 36 pieces, and place into a bowl. Pour the liquid from the jalapeno peppers over the pheasant, stir, and set aside to marinate for 20 minutes.
• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat, and lightly oil the grate.
• Drain the marinade from the pheasant and discard. Place a slice of jalapeno pepper onto each piece of pheasant breast, and wrap with a third of a strip of bacon. Skewer 6 of the pheasant pieces on each skewer.
• Cook on the preheated grill, turning frequently, until the bacon is crispy, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the skewers from the pheasant pieces, and place a toothpick into each piece to serve.

SMOKED PHEASANT

Steps:

• Dissolve the salt in the cold water to make the brine. Soak the pheasant in the brine overnight, but no more than eight hours. When the birds are finished brining, rinse them and dry them off with paper towels.
• Mix up the spices and season the breasts lightly on all surfaces. Wrap the chicken skin over the pheasant so it's covered completely on top. You may have to play with the positioning a little. I use one whole piece and one half piece of the leg quarter skins on each breast. When the skin is in place, secure it with toothpicks. Dust a little more of the spice mix onto the skin.
• I've used alder and apple for smoke -- these will give the pheasant a light smoky flavor.
• Smoke for four to six hours at 200 degrees Fahrenheit, or until the temperature of the smoked pheasant reaches 165 degrees.