Buffalo Archives - Wife Of A Hunter https://wifeofahunter.com/tag/buffalo/ Recipes for a Hunter's Wife Sat, 11 Feb 2023 16:53:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://wifeofahunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Header-WOAH-150x150.png Buffalo Archives - Wife Of A Hunter https://wifeofahunter.com/tag/buffalo/ 32 32 191194188 Buffalo Pheasant Dip https://wifeofahunter.com/buffalo-pheasant-dip/ https://wifeofahunter.com/buffalo-pheasant-dip/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2023 16:28:57 +0000 https://wifeofahunter.com/?p=4112 This Buffalo Pheasant Dip is the PERFECT appetizer for your super bowl parties! Who doesn’t love buffalo dip?? I’ve had this buffalo pheasant dip recipe in my recipe book for a while and I thought I had already posted it…but I was wrong! There is not a lot of white meat in the wild game […]

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This Buffalo Pheasant Dip is the PERFECT appetizer for your super bowl parties!

Who doesn’t love buffalo dip?? I’ve had this buffalo pheasant dip recipe in my recipe book for a while and I thought I had already posted it…but I was wrong!

There is not a lot of white meat in the wild game spectrum. And the few species there are, I love preparing it like normal chicken. Obviously pheasant is a lot leaner than chicken, but when you boil the pheasant until tender and then continue it in the crockpot for hours with cheese-y goodness, its going to be amazing! Pheasant is just a great meat to work with.

This recipe is super easy! Like I said you just boil the meat until tender and then add all of the ingredients to a crockpot and cook for ~3 hours. It’s SOOOO GOOD! I have some in the freezer to reheat for the Super Bowl tomorrow and I can’t wait. As usual sound off in the comments if you have any requests, comments, or concerns about anything and ENJOY this meal!

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Buffalo Pheasant Dip

Delicious wild game appetizer for the big game! Or whenever else its delicious.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Keyword American, Appetizer, Buffalo, Pheasant, Upland Game
Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Total Time 4 hours 15 minutes
Servings 10
Author Sophie May

Ingredients

Pre-cooking Pheasant

  • 2 quartered out pheasant ~2 lbs
  • water
  • chicken bouillon
  • cayenne pepper

Dip Ingredients

  • 3 T pheasant broth
  • 16 oz cream cheese softened
  • 2 T heavy cream
  • 1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch Dip
  • 1 C Frank's Red Hot
  • 1/2 C light sour cream
  • 8 oz mozzarella
  • 4 whole green onions

Instructions

Pre-cook Pheasant Instructions

  • To package instructions cover the pheasant in a stock pot with a chicken bouillon/water mixture. Add 1 to 2 more teaspoons of bouillon to give it extra flavor. If you want your pheasant a little spicier add a couple dashes of cayenne pepper.
  • Bring to a boil and then simmer until the meat is shreddable. ~50 minutes to an hour.

Dip Instructions

  • Add your meat and all of the other ingredients to a crockpot.
  • Stir and then cook on low for ~3 hours.
  • Grab your favorite chips or crackers and enjoy!!

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A Buffalo Pheasant Burger gives you the healthiness of a chicken burger without the boringness of one.

It is crazy people think there’s only one way to cook an animal. If you were to ask someone their favorite way to cook pheasant, it would probably include some sort of cream of mushroom soup. I reject this premise and instead bring you a tasty burger recipe!

I might’ve stolen this idea from Hopdoddys, a chain burger place in Texas. I saw an Instagram ad for a new buffalo chicken burger, and it looked delicious! I decided I could do the same thing with pheasant.

Besides the tastiness of the burger, it is also topped with some cilantro mayo, and a carrot and celery slaw. As long as you have a grinder this is an easy recipe to duplicate!

If you have some pheasant burning a whole in your freezer, and you’re tired of your average soup, give this recipe a try! Let me know how it goes in the comments and ENJOY!

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Buffalo Pheasant Burger

Delicious pheasant burger! Any other white game bird would work too.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword American, Buffalo, Burger, Pheasant
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 5 patties
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

Burger

  • 1.5 lbs pheasant skinless and boneless
  • 0.5 lb pork fat
  • 3 green onions chopped white and green
  • 1 oz Ranch seasoning packet
  • 2 T Frank's Red Hot
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste

Carrot and Celery Slaw

  • 10 oz matchstick carrots
  • 1.5 C celery finely chopped
  • 1/4 C light mayo
  • 1/4 C Frank's Red Hot
  • 1/2 T sugar
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp salt

Cilantro Mayo

  • 1 C light mayo
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • 1 T Frank's Red Hot
  • 1 bunch cilantro

Toppings

  • extra sharp white cheddar
  • burger buns
  • honey mustard I like Bolthouse
  • ranch I like Bolthouse

Instructions

Carrot Celery Slaw

  • Mix all your ingredients together.
  • Set aside in fridge while preparing the rest of the recipe.

Cilantro Mayo

  • Airfry (or deepfry) your cilantro at 400°F for 4 minutes. If airfrying, spray with your favorite oil. Remove leaves. They should be crispy and crumbly.
  • Mix all of your ingredients together.
  • Set aside in fridge while preparing the rest of the recipe.

Burger

  • Grind your pheasant, pork fat, green onions, and ranch seasoning through a fine plate in your grinder.
  • Mix in your red hot, salt, and pepper.
  • Preheat a grill to medium.
  • Cook your burger for ~5 minutes on each side or until cooked through.
  • Add a piece of cheese on the top of your burgers and cook for an additional minute to allow the cheese to melt.

Topping

  • Spread honey mustard in a thin layer over the tops of your buns.
  • Toast your buns for ~5-7 minutes at 400°F in the oven. or until slightly toasted and the mustard has turned to a glaze.
  • Ladle your cilantro mayo on your bottom bun. Place your burger on top of this. Top with your slaw, ranch, and top bun and ENJOY!

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Happy Fourth of July! I hope all of you are celebrating this great country, we were blessed to live in, with family and friends today. As with most holidays in the great US of A, you have to have delicious food! Most of the time Independence Day brings memories of fired up grills with burgers and hotdogs. I’ve made a couple burger recipes recently and I’m still working on the hot dog recipe, so I decided on something a little different for this 4th. I made BBQ and Buffalo Gator Bites!

Nothing screams patriotic and ‘Merica more than deep frying some gator your husband shot off the Gulf of Texas.  While I have made gator nuggets before, those were Asian and not at all the style I was looking for. I really wanted a tasty BBQ sauce and honestly anything even reminiscent of chicken bites requires Buffalo sauce too. I paired them with a nice homemade ranch dip, and they did not disappoint. Keep the nuggets small to give yourself the best meat to sauce ratio and don’t skrimp on the BBQ sauce because it is delicious! Bring these to your next social gathering and be the life of the party. Also remember to run away after you light those fireworks, blowing off your arm will really hurt you in the kitchen lol!

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BBQ and Buffalo Gator Bites

A great appetizer, snack, or main dish your whole family will enjoy.
Course Appetizer, Main Course, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword American, Appetizer, Gator
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 6
Author Sophie May

Equipment

Ingredients

Gator Nugget Ingredients

  • 2 lbs ground gator 80:20 gator:pork
  • vegetable oil enough for frying
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 C corn starch
  • 1/4 C flour
  • 1 tsp garlic powder

Buffalo Gator Nugget Sauce

  • 1 C Frank's Red Hot
  • 2 T honey
  • 1/4 C salted butter melted

BBQ Gator Nugget Sauce

  • 1/2 C favorite BBQ sauce I use Kansas City
  • 2 T honey
  • 1 T ketchup I used sugar-free

Ranch Dipping Sauce

  • 1 C Duke's mayo
  • 1/2 C sour cream
  • 2 tsp fresh chives chopped
  • 3/4 tsp dill weed dried
  • 1/2 tsp parsley dried
  • 1 garlic clove minced
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

Ranch Dipping Sauce

  • Combine all the ingredients, mixing well.
  • Chill in the refrigerator while you complete the recipe.

Nuggets

  • In a fryer or frying pan, heat an inch of oil to 360° F.
  • Combine egg, salt, and pepper in a shallow dish.
  • In a separate shallow dish, combine flour, corn starch, and garlic powder.
  • Form small bite sized nuggets with the gator meat.
  • Cover 4-6 (however many will fit in your frying pan) gator bites in egg wash mixture and then dredge in flour mixture.
  • When oil is the right temperature, fry nuggets for approximately 3 minutes, turning them, and frying for another 2 minutes or until fully cooked and light brown.
  • Set fried nuggets on a paper towel lined plate and repeat the egg wash, flour, and frying process for the remaining nuggets.

Sauces

  • Mix together Buffalo Sauce ingredients. Set aside.
  • Mix together BBQ sauce ingredients. Set aside.

Prepare Nuggets

  • Preheat oven to 400° F.
  • Line a cookie sheet with foil. I take and extra sheet of foil and crumple it into a line to divide the sheet in half to keep BBQ and buffalo nuggets separate.
  • Dunk the nuggets (or brush) in either the BBQ sauce or Buffalo sauce and set them on the cookie sheet. Repeat until all nuggets are well coated.
  • Cook the nuggets for 5 minutes.
  • Remove and brush the nuggets again with their respective sauce.
  • Cook again for 3 minutes. This gets the sauce nice and caramelized on the nuggets.
  • Serve with the chilled ranch dipping sauce, carrots, and celery. Enjoy!

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