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What does victory taste like to you? Find out with these selections of pheasant recipes, designed to tickle your taste buds and delight your senses. Make sure to store your pheasants properly so that you can enjoy these dishes for weeks to come after your hunt. Visit each dish’s respective site for the complete recipe.

• Chili Pheasant: Bone several pheasant breasts and stuff them with chilies and jack cheese. Roll the breasts in butter and bread crumbs and bake. Finish off by spooning a spicy tomato sauce mixture over each item. This zesty pheasant concoction is sure to get your guests’ mouths watering. (Ultimate Pheasant Hunting)
• Drunken Pheasant: Brush your bird with melted butter for flavor, and then grill it over a can of evaporating beer. The butter will seal in the flavor, locking in a taste so good it’s almost intoxicating. (Ultimate Pheasant Hunting)
• Pheasant Breasts with Cider Vinegar, Apples and Pomegranates: In this offering from Food Network’s Mario Batali, cider vinegar, apples, and shallots provide a distinctive sauce for your baked pheasants. Pomegranate seeds complete the effect, mingling poultry and fruity flavors. (Food Network)
• Pheasant Pate: Grind cooked pheasant in a meat grinder, and blend with some mayo, lemon juice, butter, onion, pepper sauce, and mustard, with salt and pepper to taste. Place the mixture in your desired mold and chill until serving. It’s a classy snack that goes well before a main course. (Pheasant Hunting Pages)
• Pheasant and Cabbage Chowder: Jasper White provides this unique New England Chowder. The main ingredients are pheasant, of course, with carrots, onions, potatoes, cabbage, bacon, celery, and a variety of seasonings and garnishes. The result is a hearty chowder that’s a complete meal in itself. (Food Network)