A co worker of Jack’s goes on a dove hunt over the holiday weekend and is quite quite successful. Jack brings home this evening no less than 60 breasted doves which was just a small portion of what was brought back to SC. I’ve never prepared them before?
I’ve eaten dove a couple of times in the past when a GF’s Dad brought them back from a hunt - she marinated the breasts in Italian Dressing cut with Dale’s, being careful not to go too heavy on the Dales so as to avoid oversalting the doves; stuffed a whole water chestnut in the breast cavity; wrapped breast with bacon; secured with toothpicks and grilled over hot coals. They were really tasty, but I’m thinking there have to be more good ways to prepare dove.
We put pickled jalapenos under the skin. Wrap with bacon and grill the same way you mentioned. I know its not very different from your recipe but, “hell if it ain’t broke…”
There’s countless things to do with game birds. Dove and Dumplings, Teriyaki Dove Kabobs, Dove en Brochette, Lime Dove…I’ve got a bunch of recipes if you’re interested. PM me for recipes if you want, or just go with what you know. If you like it, i love it…I’m just here to help I’ve also got a killer recipe for Doves in Cornbread Stuffing if you wanna get outdoorsy on the in-laws during the next thanksgiving dinner…haha!
Those sound great, guys! Thanks bunches.I froze all the breasts last night, but I’m planning to break them out this weekend. Will let you know what I try and how it turns out. I’m pretty familiar with cooking larger game birds, so it shouldn’t be that much different. It’s just that these dove breasts are pretty tiny, and I don’t want to over do anything so as to mask the flavor.
this weekend i happened to spice it up alittle with them. i decided to cut some jalapenos in half, scoop out the insides and replace them with cream cheese. i cut the meat off of the bone so i sandwich the pepper with the two pieces of breast meat, wrap in bacon as normal, toothpick it and add desired amount of italian dressing. turned out very well. peppers turned out rather mild and cream cheese didn’t melt out.
1st off YOU have to KILL the bird to make it taste better.
2nd everyone wraps everything in bacon. I guess to kill the taste of what they are wrapping.
24 Dove Breast
4 tb Butter
3 tb Flour
2 c Chicken broth
1/2 c Sherry
Salt and pepper to taste
Season dove with salt and pepper. Brown in heavy skillet in butter. Place dove in a large baking dish.Make a rue by adding the flour to butter and stir well. Slowly add chicken broth, sherry, salt and pepper. Blend well and pour over dove. Cover baking dish and bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 hour. Serve with grits.
If you need to add bacon you can add 1 to 2 cut up strips into the butter when cooking the dove… But you will not need it. A little bit of EVOO works just as well.
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I agree that it’s easy to wrap anything with a very pronounced flavor in bacon and heat. I love bacon and jalapeno as much as the next guy but being that I pay my bills by cooking (not fishing…) I feel like I would be doing everyone a disservice to not offer advice on the one thing I know best: food. It also seems like there are a lot of “grill and fry” sort of approaches that compromise much the nuances of game. I realize not everyone is a chef, but with a little trial and error and asking the right questions, I think there are many people out there that would be pleasantly surprised to re-discover things they’ve been eating for a long time.
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I think Michael’s Lime Doves will be on the weekend menu at mi casa! Thanks Michael! Like I said, I’ve got more recipes than I doves to prepare… I’ve got plenty of this season’s mahi filets in the freezer if anyone is interested in trading mahi for doves…
Its such a shame to see people ruin one of my favorite foods in the world with bacon and italian dressing and over cooking and whatnot. Salt, fresh cracked pepper, maybe a little herb oil, sear to just medium(not long), deglaze your pan with a little white wine, throw in some diced tomato and herbs, pour over and eat. Quick, easy, delicious. Remember, there’s only one way to eat doves. You have to kill them yourself. You can’t do that all the time. Don’t waste them.
my wife makes a pot pie thats good if you’re looking for something different. it works with doves, ducks, geese and squirrels, or a combination of most any critter you have. she slow cooks and debones the meat. cooks carrots, onion, potatoes
celery.mushrooms etc in a small amount of water. mixes the meat, seasoning and veggies in a baking dish adds cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup and covers the top with puff pastry dough (buy frozen at your local grocery) and bakes @ 350 til the top is brown. This is how I use up stragglers that have been in the freezer a while, you cant go wrong marinating game in Thomas marinade and grilling over natural wood charcoal.
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I like to flour dove breasts, season with salt & pepper and pan fry 3 minutes. Remove the doves, throw in a diced onion and cook 'til tender. Add flour & water to make gravy. Add a cup of coffee and reduce to a good consistency. Place the dove breasts back in the gravy and simmer for as long as it takes for the grits to get ready.
Coffee, eh? I do that to make red eye gravy, but it sounds like a good idea for the dove gravy as well, especially with the onions. Thanks! That’ll be another recipe I’ll try my hand at soon!
marinate the breast in lemon juice for a couple hours. Rap them in bacon and throw them on the grill. I forgot the specific heat and times i think med heat and cok around four minutes on each side. May want to double check the temp and time but this is a delicious way to cook doves. Very tasty.
Thanks!
I’ve also got a killer recipe for Doves in Cornbread Stuffing if you wanna get outdoorsy on the in-laws during the next thanksgiving dinner…haha!
