MTN Lion recipes??
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From: pointingdogs
18-Feb-19
A friend just returned from Colorado and shot a cat. I have had MTN LION once before and it was good. They are looking for any good recipes for the cat. Thanks in advance.
From: Yellowjacket
18-Feb-19
Use any slow cooker pork roast recipe. It's so lean and has to be cooked to a safe temperature because of trichinosis so in a liquid in the slow cooker works really well.
From: Zbone
18-Feb-19
Best wild game meat I ever ate was cougar, looking forward to this...
From: coelker
19-Feb-19
Green Chile or :
https://fromfieldtoplate.com/category/bobcat/
From: TravisScott
19-Feb-19
Treat it similar to pork. The one thing a lot of people screw up with Cats is their fat actually has a pleasant flavor to it. Don’t get to carried away with trimming it all off. My personal favorite is to leave the back ham in tact with a good layer of fat, put your favorite seasonings on it with a good amount of salt, place it on the smoker and MAKE SURE the internal temperature is safe (165 I believe but please double check). The meat is great!
From: Ct-z7
19-Feb-19
Zbone...lol!! It's dry but if your patient it can be very moist.
From: JohnMC
19-Feb-19
He shot a cougar in CO? The real men these days are killing them with their bare hands.
From: Ct-z7
19-Feb-19
From: TrapperKayak
19-Feb-19
I had a package of it once. Like the best pork chop I ever ate!
From: Boreal
19-Feb-19
Stir fry in a wok.
From: wkochevar
19-Feb-19
Green Chile indeed!! Another is to pound out a steak to 1/4", flour and fry. When your done make a mushroom cream sauce in the fry pan and serve it all over smashed taters! Best "chicken fry" you'll eat. I may have to go get another since I'm just about out!
From: Nick Muche
19-Feb-19
I made lots of stir fry with mine. Also made bacon wrapped bite size pieces with water chestnut and a raspberry vinnegrette drizzle.
From: Stoneman
19-Feb-19
Part of a show and tell for my son's 3rd grade class, along with taking the skull, I made mt lion meatballs. Enough that all the kids could have 2 each. Some of the girls opted out resulting in several boys competing for the remaining meatballs. Good stuff!
From: Highlife
19-Feb-19
Reach out to Fuzzy no kidding
From: TallTines
19-Feb-19
I used the crock pot for roasts just as I would with pork and also had a fair amount made into breakfast sausage. Wonderful eating.
From: Altizer
20-Feb-19
Aluminum foil and a radiator. Lion hunting New Mexico one time with a couple of buddies that are Apache. I had flown in late and they were waiting at the airport. We went straight to the mountains. After being up 27 hours they asked if I was hungry. I said yes, they stopped, opened the hood and pulled foil off the radiator. Then they unwrapped tamales, lion tamales. Best I ever had. Kept them hot on the radiator.
From: Fuzzy
21-Feb-19
I coo it like a pork roast, low and slow
From: RymanCat
04-Mar-19
Mine was like veal. Roasted, steaked and burger was all the best animal ever eaten.
From: Ziek
04-Mar-19
Lots of good ideas above. It's meat. Cook it like meat and you won't be disappointed.
From: ahunter76
04-Mar-19
Long ago I was told by a Native American to treat Cat as you would Pork. Since then, I have heard the same.
From: Fuzzy
06-Mar-19
the roasts Highlife is referring to were whole shoulders from a mature lion. I used Tony Cacheres seasoning with some brown sugar as a dry rub then put the shoulder whole in a preheated dutch oven with just a couple tablespoons of sizzling hot cooking oil. Added two large peeled and quartered Vidalia onions and can of beer. Covered the dutch oven and cooked in the range oven at 275 degrees 4 hours....came out pretty darned good!
From: Ziek
07-Mar-19
"Long ago I was told by a Native American to treat Cat as you would Pork."
True that. They can carry trichinosis, like feral pigs and bears. Best to be safe and cook well done.
From: TrapperKayak
07-Mar-19
I had some and it was like the best tasting pork chops I ever ate. So yeah, treat it like pork chops IMO...
From: Jaquomo
07-Mar-19
If you google "best mountain lion recipes" all sorts of good stuff pops up
From: TravisScott
24-Mar-19
Alright I’ll bring this one back to the top. Take any cuts from the cat. Slice them about an inch to an inch and a half. Beat them up with a tenderizer a bit then give them a bath in milk so the batter of Panko, corn meal, flour, and your favorite seasonings sticks. Drop in hot oil and you have some of the best chicken fried meat you’ve ever had!
Good Luck!!!!
