SQUIRREL AND CHICKEN STEW
INGREDIENTS:
6 to 10 squirrels, deboned (10 squirrels yielded 6 cups of deboned meat)
1 large hen or fryer, deboned (omit chicken if desired)
2 quarts squirrel/chicken broth, add more if necessary
3 cups coarse chopped onion
19 oz. frozen Sweet Yellow Corn
(Birds Eye Steamfresh)
30 oz. frozen
Shoepeg Corn
& Butter Sauce
(Steamers Green Giant)
1 teaspoon bacon drippings
1 can (28 oz.) Petite diced tomatoes
1 can (10 oz.)
RoTel Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies
3 green onions or scallions plus tops, coarsely sliced (1/2 cup)
1 stick (1/2 cup)
butter (for
roux)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour (for roux) If roux is too
thin, add additional 1/4 cup flour
3 cans (12 oz.) Carnation
evaporated milk
1 tablespoon fresh chopped sage or dried
5 teaspoons
Morton table salt (to taste)
1 teaspoon freshly ground black peppercorns
(Tellicherry)
to taste
1 teaspoon Wild Bill's Meat Rub
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1/2 cup Anson County City Slicker BBQ sauce or
any Hickory Smoke BBQ Sauce (optional)
Add squirrels and chicken to 12 qt.
pressure cooker with one gallon or more of
water and cook for 35 minutes at 15 lbs. pressure. Allow to cool and
debone squirrels and chicken discarding bones, skin and cartridge reserving
at least 3 quarts of the broth.
In a 12 qt. stock pot over medium heat, melt one half cup of
butter and whisk in 3/4 cup flour and make a blonde color roux, whisking
constantly to keep the roux from sticking or burning. After roux has
cooked about 10 to 15 minutes, add chopped onion, green onion, bacon
drippings and sauté
for about 5 minutes. Add reserved
squirrel/chicken broth and evaporated milk; whisk to blend and bring to a boil. Add squirrel and chicken
meat, corn, diced tomatoes, tomatoes and chilies, salt, sage,
Wild Bill’s Meat Rub, BBQ sauce, red pepper flakes and black pepper. Reduce heat
to low and simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent
sticking. Adjust seasonings as needed. Garnish with chopped
green onions or scallions if desired. Serve while hot with saltine crackers or crackers of your
choice.
YIELD: 10 to 12 servings or more
Above squirrel stew prepared on 12-01-13 and was
"off the chain good", fantastic taste,
texture and eye appeal. I used some left over red onion for additional
color contrast and served with Zesta Wheat saltines.
Click on sequence thumbnail pixs below for a larger screen view:
This recipe was adapted from my
Grandmother
Lizzie Porter’s recipe which was not written down. I added the RoTel, bacon drippings,
butter, green onions, sage, flour, red pepper flakes, BBQ sauce and Wild
Bill’s Meat Rub to this recipe to make it my own.
View my
squirrel skinning 101 page how I skin squirrels.
Back in The Great Depression Era,
country folks used whatever wild game meat source was available and this is
just one example. I have killed my share of squirrels over the decades
and many ended up in the skillet for sure. As a school lad back in the
early 1960s, I traded wild game (squirrels and rabbits) to a local
convenience store for ammunition of
which it is illegal to sell and/or barter and trade wild game animals today.
This recipe is similar to a traditional
Brunswick stew recipe without
the additional veggies that are normally added.
Check out this
link for the
.22 cal. Savage Mark II BTVLSS rimfire rifle that the
squirrels were harvested with and also my latest
rimfire
squirrel rifle.
Web published by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 11-29-13 and updated on
06-06-16.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
