sandhill crane recipes

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A couple of friends of ours plan on doing some duck, wild turkey, and yes a sandhill crane. I would like to grill the crane. Searched for recipes and can't find a decent one.

Also doing pheasant poppers on the grill.

Any crane recipe would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Scott
 
Fill 3 cranes, cleaned and plucked, full of dog s**t.

Slow roast for 3 hours over open flame.

Remove from heat and place on serving dish.

Remove dog s**t from bird.

Throw crane in garbage.

Eat dog s**t with side of rice.:flipoff2:

Sorry, couldn't resist. Those things are tough to cook and make good unless they're young, in which case there may not be much to cook.

I'm sure someone has a recipe that's worked though. Keep them moist is the best I got.

IMO they would do best as smoked jerky, along with duck and goose too. Cut into strips, soak them in a brine for a day or two and smoke like deer jerky. Good luck!

edit: pheasant poppers with a pepper wrapped in bacon on the grill are most excellent. We had some quail at the last dog trial I went to with my father in law. Damn tasty.
 
VFRMAN said:
Fill 3 cranes, cleaned and plucked, full of dog s**t.

Slow roast for 3 hours over open flame.

Remove from heat and place on serving dish.

Remove dog s**t from bird.

Throw crane in garbage.

Eat dog s**t with side of rice.:flipoff2:

Sorry, couldn't resist. Those things are tough to cook and make good unless they're young, in which case there may not be much to cook.

I'm sure someone has a recipe that's worked though. Keep them moist is the best I got.

IMO they would do best as smoked jerky, along with duck and goose too. Cut into strips, soak them in a brine for a day or two and smoke like deer jerky. Good luck!

edit: pheasant poppers with a pepper wrapped in bacon on the grill are most excellent. We had some quail at the last dog trial I went to with my father in law. Damn tasty.
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I did find some recipes claiming that crane was ribeye in the sky. Don't know if that is true or not. But I am glad you posted here since you live in the state that the bird was harvested. Early indicators tell me it was a young bird, and got two monster breasts out of it.

BTW - the dog**** recipe is very funny.

Scott
 
I think the key is slow cooking with lots of liquid. I don't know about on the grill. That might be a tough one. I'm sure you can make it edible, just probably not the cream of the crop.

I could also be way off base and someone has a super recipe for it. There's always a way. I do like the jerky though.


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I wonder if deep frying it like a turkey might be good? My next door neighbor just fried (2) 14 lb turkeys last night for a party and that was the juiciest turkey I've ever had. Might be worth a shot?
 
that would be one helluva drumstick...
 
NorCalDoug said:
that would be one helluva drumstick...
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would be if cranes had any meat on the legs. Breast meat only.
Vfrman- someone in ND has got to have a fullproof recipe....
 
I'll check with my hunting expert neighbor and see what he has. He can cook just about anything. Will post back tomorrow with his thoughts.
 
VFRMAN said:
I'll check with my hunting expert neighbor and see what he has. He can cook just about anything. Will post back tomorrow with his thoughts.
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Thanks , I will appreciate that.
 
I would slow cook it in a smoker. I cant stand eating goose, I threw one in my smoker for 8 hours and it tasted great. Crane might be ok too. I have never heard of anyone eating one though. Post pics
 
Just use Spotted Owl recipes. They're interchangable.
 
No luck next door. He said make jerky too, or try to smoke them. His kid and his buddies shot about 500 snow geese this spring so he's sick of waterfowl for awhile I think. He's also a little biased toward pheasants though so I don't think anything less gets his full attention.

I'll try my other neighbor and see. He's a bigger duck and goose guy so he should have more ideas.

Just to clarify for those that don't know. These are sandhill cranes, not whooping cranes. Those would rank right up there with shooting a bald eagle or spotted owl around here. Even though bald eagles are everywhere these days. I can see 4 or 5 a day whichever direction I go it seems like.(Not like I'm condoning the shooting of bald eagles just because there seems to be a lot of them.)
 
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