Here's now to make wild turkey legs delicious

[catman529]

Cut off the legs at the joint when you clean your bird so you get the leg and thigh in one piece. If you like BBQ sauce you will like this recipe/method -

1. boil the legs for a few hours. I recommend putting in some onions, carrots, celery etc so you have a good turkey stock to make soup with (mine turned out very good). Don't put a lot more vegetables than meat in - you don't want to over do that part.

2. let the legs cool down and pull all the meat off them. It should come off easily and you can leave behind the bones, cartilage, other tough pieces. The meat will be tender.

3. Use your favorite homemade or store bought BBQ sauce. I put some liquid hickory smoke into homemade sauce and it was just about perfect. Mix the sauce in with the meat - you decide if you like it sloppy with a lot of BBQ or just a little for flavor.

4. Put that stuff on hamburger buns and you got some good wild turkey sandwiches. I guess you could garnish it too but I thought they were good as is.

I know how I will be cooking most of my turkey legs in the future. Thought I'd pass it along in a thread of its own. The idea just came to me after making stock and seeing how I could pick tender meat off the legs.

 

[treefarmer]

I cooked a jake breast filet and the drumsticks w/thighs in a crockpot with cream of celery soup covering the meat for Easter dinner. 8 adults enjoyed it including the dark meat. My wife said she liked the dark meat a little better than the breast. It was fall-off-the-bone tender. Serve over wild or regular rice. Don't throw away the drumsticks/thighs! They are too good to give to the coyotes.

 

[Boone 58]

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