Anyone have any good pheasant recipes???

Hey ckulbeth,

I've seen your post for a while with no replies.

The absolute best recipe I've tried for pheasant is out of the Duck's Unlimited cookbook that I have. Basically every other recipe in it sucks. Realize that hunters are not cooks. They overcook everything that is game.

The recipe is called "Pheasant with red wine"

I don't have the book in front of me now but this is how it goes; Quantities may have to be adjusted and you can do this if you are a cook.

4 Bone in pheasant breast halves
Mushrooms; I have used portabellas: 3 should be more than enough, sliced
1 med onion, 1/4" dice
1 Tblspn minced garlic
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup or more red wine
2 cups heavy cream
fresh thyme, maybe some sage


Salt and pepper the pheasant breasts and brown in a hot skillet with a butter and olive oil mix. Remove. In the remaining fat, saute the mushrooms and onion. When 3/4 done, add the fresh garlic and watch closely so as not to burn it. When it becomes golden, add the red wine and reduce it by 1/2. Add the chicken stock and reduce slightly. Add the pheasant back to this mixture and add the heavy cream. Bring to a boil then reduce heat and cover. Let simmer till cream starts to thicken to sauce consistency. Add the fresh herbs and adjust with salt and pepper to taste.

You can use the other parts of the bird too if you like the stringy legs!

This should take about 30 min after you get the bird back into the skillet. Check it to be sure it is just done. DO NOT OVERCOOK!

The recipe above sounds good. How ever you go about it, sauce of some kind helps, as pheasant tend sto dry out pretty easy. Also, heed the advice about overcooking, unless you like jerky. As a quick and easy way of doing it, just throwing them in a crock pot with what ever kind of condensed soup you like is always good, I like Campbels golden mushroom. If you pluck the bird, I don't, it's just too much hassle, but if you do, deep frying works pretty well too. This is the ONLY way to cook wild turkey as well. Hope this helps.

My favorite recipe for pheasant and other game birds is as follows.
Take your cut up bird salt & pepper roll in flour and brown in a pan the peaces do not need to be cooked all the way. in a casserole dish mix heavy cream and a (gasp!) can of cream of mushroom soup. onions, green and red peppers, mushrooms, (I like morels but any will work)and good curry powder red,yellow,green whichever you like I like yellow for this. Use as much curry as you like personally I like a lot. Mix everything in the dish and add your browned bird peaces. Coat the peaces with the sauce and put in the oven at 350 for 1.5 hrs give or take serve over yellow saffron rice or egg noodles. Everyone around my house loves it. The curry hides the gamy taste of birds such as doves and sharptail grouse. I have also used ducks and rabbit with this and it was just as good. I never measure ingredients this is just a guide line I hope you like it.

this is a chicken recipe but might work for pheasant.

6-boneless skinless breasts
3-bell peppers, color does not matter but i like to use 1 red 1green and 1 yellow or orange
2 cups cream half or half and half
2 cubs Salsa Ranch dressing
6servings white or brown rice

put breasts in 9X13 glass pan

seed and chop the bell peppers and put over breasts

mix the cream and ranch together you can also use 1 cup cream to 3 cups salsa ranch

pour mixture over breasts and peppers
place in oven for 1 hour at 350

cook rice according to directions on container

put cooked rice on plate breast on rice cover with the bell peppers and mixture from pan and enjoy

left overs can be cut up and everything thrown in to a big bowl and used to make burritos