Needing some squirrel recipes

Just make a sauce piquante or stew. Anything that takes awhile to cook.
Pretty standard sauce piquante recipe. I add garlic and a few jalapenos to spice it up some.

* 2 squirrels, cut up
* 2 large onions, chopped
* 1/2 cup bell pepper, chopped
* 1/2 cup oil
* 1 Tbs. flour
* 1 small can tomato sauce
* 1 small can Rotel tomatoes
* water
* salt and pepper


Season squirrel with salt and pepper. Using a Dutch oven, add oil and squirrel. Brown pieces of meat well on both sides. Remove meat. Lower heat to medium and sauté onions, bell pepper and flour in same pan until brown. Return squirrel to pan and add tomato sauce, Rotel tomatoes and enough water to cover meat. Cover pot with a tight fitting lid and simmer for at least 1 hour, or until meat is tender. Add onion tops and parsley just before serving. Serve over rice.

Yeah another way I like to cook squirrel is in the crock pot. Just use a standard chicken stew recipe and swap chicken for squirrel. You can also put them in Gumbo. Just make sure whatever you decide to do it involves low heat for a long time.

Marinate in Italian dressing over night, wrap whole squirrel with slice of bacon and grill. Season with what ever you like.

Brown in oil remove squirrel and make a brown gravy. Add the squirrel back and cook on low heat til tender.

I like to pick out the younger ones and fry them.

Boil til meat comes off the bone use meat to make a stew or what ever you can think of. Instead of chicken use squirrel. My mother use to make a squirrel mulligan like this. I don't know what all was in it but it was spaghetti based. I may just come up with something on my on after this thread.

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I wonder what they would taste like in a smoker?

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Uh No.

Black iron pot, holy trinity, water and time.


Good luck.

They make a pretty good gumbo too. I prefer them like the first poster responded but it's a second way for you to try.

Squirrel Dumplings