Cooking Pheasant Breast In Slow Cooker
Cook the pheasant until it s completely cooked and the onions are soft.
Cooking pheasant breast in slow cooker. Remove the lid of the slow cooker and insert a meat thermometer into the thigh of the pheasant avoiding the bone. Into the same pan add the onion and mushrooms and cook and stir for 4 to 5 minutes. Whisk the condensed soup sour cream water chopped onion onion soup mix and mushrooms together in a mixing bowl. Preheat the slow cooker to auto or low setting.
Transfer to the slow cooker. Slow cooker apple crisp crock pot 365 days of slow cooking flour cinnamon ground nutmeg cooking apples butter oats and 1 more crock pot pepper chicken slow cooker let the baking begin. Slowly add cup chicken broth and if desired 1 cups cider. Pour over the pheasants.
Remove the pheasant to the slow cooker. Serve the pheasant. Wrap and drape the bacon over the birds covering the pheasants as much as you can. In a frying pan melt the butter over a high heat.
Stir in the worcestershire sauce salt garlic and cream of chicken soup. Sprinkle everything with paprika then cover the crock pot and cook on low heat for 6 hours or until the pheasant is cooked. Pour over the pheasant parts in the crock pot and cook on low for 6 to 7 hours. Bring to a boil stirring constantly.
Pheasant breasts are light in color with a mild flavor similar to chicken but with a slight gamy taste and the meat cooks well in the oven on the stove top on the grill or even in a slow cooker. Add flour and stir for 2 minutes. Cook bacon and chopped onions celery garlic and other spices together until softened. Wild pheasants just like wild turkey have quite a bit of sinew in their legs unlike pen raised birds due in part to the abundance of activity required to forage for food and to elude prey.
Alternatively transfer the pheasant to a baking dish or roasting pan see the tips for baking directions. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Mash the garlic clove and add it to the skillet juices add the onion white wine sugar mushrooms olives if using and broth. Transfer everything to the slow cooker and add the rosemary bay leaf and thyme.
Put the lid on the slow cooker and turn it on to low. Heat to bubbling and simmer five minutes. Place the pheasants into a large slow cooker. Pour over the pheasant.
Rub the pheasant generously with salt and pepper then brown evenly on all sides in the hot butter along with the bacon. Carefully pour the mixture over the pheasant pieces in the slow cooker season well then cover and cook on low for 6 7hr until the pheasant is tender. Add the white wine and stock and bring to a simmer for 6 to 8 minutes. Place the pheasant parts in the cold crock pot.
Then insert the thermometer into a thick part of the breast of the pheasant. Cover and cook the pheasant in mushrooms for 6 to 8 hours on low. To check if the pheasant is cooked insert an instant read meat thermometer. The temperature should reach 165 f 74 c once it s cooked.
When all of the quarters reach 180 degrees fahrenheit the pheasant is ready.