Grouse recipes

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to bring home a ruffed grouse after a hunt, you know what a treat it can be. The meat is lean, tender, and has a mild, slightly gamey flavor that makes it a fantastic choice for a wide range of recipes. Over the years, I’ve cooked grouse in a variety of ways, and I’ve found that keeping it simple often brings out the best flavors. Here are a few of my favorite recipes for ruffed grouse that anyone can make at home.

Ptarmigan, wild grouse, is lavished with a sauce of thyme and bilberries, an Icelandic cousin of blueberries, which make a good substitute.

The much anticipated ‘Glorious Twelfth’ heralds the start of a new game season as the grouse season opens. We can deliver grouse (both young and older birds) straight to your door from mid August until the season ends in December. Grouse tastes like no other game - for some people it’s the superlative game bird. They l

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A Story With Every Meal I love cooking wild game because there is a story with every meal. Today’s grouse came from a quick trip up north with the boys for some family bonding and quality tim…

Ruffed Grouse Stew - Kent Cartridges - This recipe works well with any upland game birds.

I’m no stranger to random phone calls asking me if I want some wild game. Usually it is a friend of mine who has recently shot something and wants to know if I want the liver or heart or tongue. Sometimes it’s a friend of a friend who wants to know if I want a raccoon that broke into his chicken coop, or perhaps the head of a pig they just shot. Whatever the case, my freezer is always full of interesting items because people call and give them to me. So when fellow Cast-Iron Chef blogger…

Most recently, I experimented with a couple of ruffed grouse breasts given to me by my friend JJ Reich of Vista Outdoors. Far and away this has been my favorite smoked charcuterie so far. It turned out great: delicate, moist, and tender with a flavorful soft maple smoke. Eat it right off the smoker, or reserve for other recipes (like this crostini recipe).

Although game is most closely associated with autumn and winter, this dish from William Drabble is best served in late August when the grouse is still young and tender and blackberries are just coming into season. The tangy fruit complements the rich meat wonderfully and this grouse recipe is a fine way to bid farewell to summer.

This Grouse & Wild Rice Mushroom Soup does the trick to warm up my girls on a cold winter's night here in North Dakota. For this grouse recipe, you’ll make the stock and cook the grouse to pull apart tender in the same pot so you can utilize the entire carcass, including the legs and thighs.