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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Womble on September 22, 2012, 08:22:54 am

Title: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: Womble on September 22, 2012, 08:22:54 am

Any favourites folks?  We've got a few we need to dispose of as tastily as possible  ;D

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: graham-j on September 22, 2012, 10:05:35 am

Hi,not an old recipe but I like to finnish my birds with marriages cockerel fatteners,I think the really improve the flavor of the bird,I have also found they tend to put on meat rather than fat as they do when feed on corn.

Graham.

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: Mel Rice on September 22, 2012, 10:31:35 am

The good old Cock-au-Vin....esp designed for male birds

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: darkbrowneggs on September 22, 2012, 01:00:02 pm

This is my "take" on preparing and cooking dual purpose birds
LINKY (http://www.darkbrowneggs.info/#/marans-as-meat-birds/4554492879)
 
Once they are poached the meat can be used in any "chicken" type dish, ie curry, chicken fricasse,  chicken paprika etc etc.

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: Calvadnack on September 22, 2012, 02:57:12 pm

This is Nigella's Praised Chicken recipe and makes a really good alternative to coq au vin.  Mothers' recipes always seem to outlast fancy fads.


http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/my-mothers-praised-chicken-5155 (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/my-mothers-praised-chicken-5155)

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: Birdie Wife on September 22, 2012, 09:34:06 pm

A variation on coq au vin which I tried to good success is a coq au cidre - I used 50/50 dry cider and chicken stock. Long, low and slow is the key to a tender bird  ;D :innocent:

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: funkyfish on September 23, 2012, 05:22:45 pm

Ooh that sounds good! I might try that with one of mine... going to do the deed with three sometime this week and will cook all in different ways.

Title: Re: Best recipes for surplus cockerels
Post by: MAK on September 23, 2012, 06:21:13 pm

You could try Coq au vin but the dish is best if the coq has 3 years of leg work under him. ;D