How do yall like to cook squirrel?

I'm looking for new ideas on cooking squirrels.

Wrap it in bacon and seal it up with tin foil, put on the smoker for about two hours. When it's done throw away the squirrel and eat the tin foil. LOL I can't cook squirrel for chit!

Chicken fried, chicken fried, or chicken fried. Can't go wrong with any of the 3 methods.

Grandpa used to fry them when ever I brought some home. That isn't really a new idea though. He made some stew one time also.

squirrel and dumplins!!!

Can I go ahead and ask the obvious: In a word full of large, delicious animals, that yield plenty of meat for a meal for 4...why the hell do ya'll eat squirrels, raccoon, and oppossum!?! Ya'll can't possibly tell me you woke up this morning and thought "damn I'd love to eat the heck outta some squirrel tonight"

Squirrel is good. Actually a game animal in some states with a season.
Raccoon and Possum not so much.

I guess I just need to give it a try...again. Grilled tastes like...a squirrel. yuck.

Dumplins are the way to go

Grew up eating "Shake and Bake" squirrel!! Remember that stuff!! It was pretty good. Haven't tried it lately!!

My great grandmother always cooked it in a pressure cooker. Anyone remember those? She usually mixed it with dumplings, too. For her, squirrel was a necessity in order to feed her 8 kids and 2 grandkids she had to raise during the depression. She cooked it her whole life, and us kids ate it right along with her! I sure do miss her....

actually I can


We used to fry em up like chicken, can't go wrong. Now I gotta go and get some squirrels

Originally Posted By: RobertYuras
Ya'll can't possibly tell me you woke up this morning and thought "damn I'd love to eat the heck outta some squirrel tonight"

Actually I can too. My nephew in GA wanted me take him with his new .17HR hunting and then to cook him some last week while I was there. Fried, back in the gravy to get tender with biscuits.

My dad used to always bbq it when I would shoot one at the lease. Smoke it for a while and then wrap in foil with a little bbq sauce sop.

I thought about shooting one at the lease this past weekend but didn't. I was gonna cut up in pieces like a chicken, roll in seasoned flower and fry in a skillet. Then make some gravy in the skillet and put the squirrel back in and smother on low heat for a while.

I was also thinking about doing a squirel confit. just poach it in oil. I think it would keep it from drying out.

I keep threatening to kill a couple of the little critters, maybe a rabbit or so also, then make them into a gumbo with some smoked venison sausage. I'd serve it to a bunch of the family that won't eat game and tell them it's chicken & sausage gumbo.

Dutch oven or Crock Pot, quartered and browned in a skillet then crocked.

I like them basted on the grill. Stew would be good too. good tender meat.

Young ones are good for frying. Older ones your better off parboiling, then removing the meat from the bone and making stew.

Braising them in a skillet with onions, then serving over mashed potatoes kicks [censored] too.

I boil them like a chicken and de-bone and make squirrel pot pie in an iron skillet. Make you slap your momma!

Agreed. Chicken fried with gravy made out of the drippings. Goes great with potato soup!

I'm interested in this. we have an abundance of squirrel at the lease.

What fluid do you use in the croc? Chicken broth, gravy, or soup?

I don't like them greazy tough rats.

last one got throwed in the crock pot to tenderize
while I was sitting in the treestand waiting on a deer

I musta left it too long cuz it was fallin' off the bone.
I fished it all out and stirred the meat in a ramen noodle
cup.not too bad for a greasy tough rat. . . .

I've had squirrels and bunnies about every way there is
to cook em. . . .

not real sure what you mean by greasy. I have never eaten a greasy one.

(Quarter them) Boil them first then chicken fried!!

Actually, I do wake up and want squirrel and rabbit from time to time....nothing like a good chicken fried squirrel, with mashed pots and gravy, green beans, and a High Life.

FoxTrot's gramma can apparently whip up a rediculously good bit of squirrel and dumplins...

Cut the little fella into small pieces and stuff in Jalepenos pepers with cream cheese. Cut Thick sliced pepper bacon in 1/2 strips and wrap them and skewer. Cook over grill heat until bacon is done and serve.

I like to make squirrel and dumplins!

Why cant you just buy some chicken? Much easier

Fry the young ones and make dumlins out of the older ones. It's a country thing I suppose.

It's a game animal in this state? Ends this Sunday the 7th until the spring season.

It is much easier to buy anything than to go hunt it, but what fun is that? Why don't you just buy some beef?

No I was just making a point to robert that it isn't just some rat.

City boys I tell ya.....

Gotcha Squirrel hunting was big chit when I was growing up but not so much anymore.

I say stick a stick through it, cook it over an open fire like a hot dog.

Well, this isn't much help but I let mine lay where they drop for yotes or buzzards. Tried ever recipe known to man and they all taste like a rodent and they all suck. Good target practice. Shoot um am let um lay. Good for the environment.

You must be a sorry cook. How does a rodent taste anyway? You been eatin rats or what?

Last time I checked, squirrel was the only game animal you could hunt in Dallas County...there's got to be thousands of them on the south side of town.

BTW...cook them on the stove.