Beaver Recipe

[HuntforFood]

No there is no pun here ... BUT my dad and I have a beaver problem on some of my family land. We decided to take them out. Im hoping to make a hat out of the pelt if my fiance will help with that. I was wondering if any of y'all had a recipe to cook the meat. It is hanging in a freezer right now. So if anyone could help me cook this harvest that would be great!

 

[Lucretia]

Never had it, but I've heard you can grill the tail (skin on.)

 

[ecchef]

You can spatchcock it.

 

[fujiyama]

Go for the Apple Cinnamon

Wait, what?

 

[dough]

soak the meat in salt water before cooking helps get the blood out. other then that you can make cracklings out of the tail or par cook it a bit and cube it into baked beans or chili which is pretty good. the meat itself just treat like lean red meat. I like to make jerky with it but overall I think it lends itself to stew or saucy dishes.

 

[Tall Dark and Swarfy]

Serve with Molson.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtPuWtmNPM

 

[HuntforFood]

Thank you all for the help! I was thinking about soaking it (Brine) and trying to just stew it. Really looking forward to making a comfy and warm hat. I live in South Carolina so I won't need it often but it's nice to use every bit of something I've taken the life of.

 

[boomchakabowwow]

you should read that book by Steven Rinella. "Meat eater". he has a pretty great chapter about eating beaver. i think he braised the tail.

i would definitely stew the thing for my maiden voyage. you trap it?

 

[boomchakabowwow]

here

http://www.themeateater.com/2014/tasting-notes-beaver/

 

[DeepCSweede]

My Grandfather was a trapper by trade and we would eat a lot of stuff that got caught in traps, beaver was never something that we would eat. Best of luck with it. By the way raccoon was one of my favorites.