Smoked Pheasant - 1

Recipe Ingredients

3		2-lb pheasants - quartered
2 tablespoons	30ml	Whiskey or water
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Sugar
		Apple barbecue sauce - (recipe follows)
		Apple Barbecue Sauce
1 cup	237ml	Applesauce
1/4 cup	40g / 1.4oz	Firmly packed light-brown sugar
2 tablespoons	30ml	Cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Chili powder
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Ground cloves

Recipe Instructions

1. Cut pheasant legs through the joints to separate drumsticks from thighs. Set drumsticks aside; bone and skin thighs and breasts. Refrigerate remaining pheasant pieces and bones for another use.

2. Prepare smoker using fuel of your choice with mild flavor wood chips/chunks.

3. Arrange boned pheasant thighs and breasts and the drumsticks on rack in smoker or roasting pan. Brush with whiskey. Sprinkle with salt and sugar.

4. Smoke pheasant until done, 170F in deepest part of breast meat. When measuring temperature, do not hit the bone with the thermometer probe tip. DO NOT OVERCOOK. Meat will be dry.

5. Serve with Apple Barbecue Sauce, if desired.

APPLE BARBEQUE SAUCE: In a heavy 1-quart saucepan, combine. Heat to boiling over high heat; reduce heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, 2 minutes.

Source:
Country Living Holidays

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