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Title: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: Blsum on January 27, 2014, 09:51:47 PM: Ok guys I was lucky enough to shoot a cougar last weekend and I've heard that it makes some excellent table fare. So how would you recommend I cook it?
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: Halo on January 27, 2014, 09:58:20 PM: It's good eats but remember it should come with a warning label, It put a friend of mines wife in the hospital after eating some. People don't think being allergic to cats means not to eat them. Great eating though, just make sure everyone is not allergic.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: runningboard on January 27, 2014, 10:02:23 PM: tag
only ate it smoked and was damn good but want to see what recipes you get from others
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 27, 2014, 10:09:40 PM: I have had it in jerkey and fried. The fired stuff was just like a pork chop. Breaded and fried to golden brown. Just make sure you get it well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cats are know to carry trichinosis just like pork and you can die from it. Just like raw or under cooked pork.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: Rainier10 on January 27, 2014, 10:11:26 PM: It has been 20 years since my wife (she was my girlfriend at the time) shot one. She cooked it as a stir fry, soy sauce, green peppers, mushrooms and cougar meat over white rice. Delicious.

Enjoy, :drool:
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: Blsum on January 27, 2014, 10:13:39 PM: Good to know carp I had no idea. I was just figuring I would cook it like I do my deer and elk back straps. Wrapped in bacon and cooked to med rare.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: KFhunter on January 27, 2014, 10:15:52 PM: Quote from: Halo on January 27, 2014, 09:58:20 PM
It's good eats but remember it should come with a warning label, It put a friend of mines wife in the hospital after eating some. People don't think being allergic to cats means not to eat them. Great eating though, just make sure everyone is not allergic.

really? never heard of that

figured people were allergic to the dander. my girl will get allergic reaction if a dog licks her face, boy can't be around cats..
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 27, 2014, 10:20:41 PM: Quote from: Blsum on January 27, 2014, 10:13:39 PM
Good to know carp I had no idea. I was just figuring I would cook it like I do my deer and elk back straps. Wrapped in bacon and cooked to med rare.

Yeah I meat most meats med rare as well. Not pork or cougar! Well done for sure.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: boomstick on January 28, 2014, 12:18:26 PM: Bears can carry it too. Jerky not the best idea does not get hot enough to kill it before it is to dry to eat.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: vandeman17 on January 28, 2014, 12:23:43 PM: We actually cut ours into normal steaks and cooked it like a pork chop. It is very similar in texture and flavor. Some great tasting meat :drool:
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: whitey on January 30, 2014, 06:54:18 AM: Quote from: carpsniperg2 on January 27, 2014, 10:09:40 PM
I have had it in jerkey and fried. The fired stuff was just like a pork chop. Breaded and fried to golden brown. Just make sure you get it well done!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cats are know to carry trichinosis just like pork and you can die from it. Just like raw or under cooked pork.

Yep. We hammer the boneless fillets flat.. Egg bath, flour and salt and pepper then fire in a little oil. Very good..
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: hollymaster on January 31, 2014, 08:50:31 PM: I've heard making breakfast sausage out of it is really good.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: Song Dog on February 03, 2014, 09:14:27 PM: I will post my hot and spicy Kung Pao Kitty for ya.
Title: Re: Best recipes for cougar?
Post by: lokidog on February 03, 2014, 09:24:26 PM: Congrats on the cougar, some of the best eating there is IMO.

The backstrap, as mentioned , is good cooked the way you would any kind of pork. The legs, I just ground for burger, but there are probably some rump cuts that would steak out decently.

It was labeled "Fluffy Burger" in the freezer. :chuckle:

BTW, I am allergic to cats but had no issues with eating the cougar. :dunno: