Print: Grilled Pheasant Poppers

These grilled pheasant poppers are a great way to use and even enjoy the fowl the outdoorspeople in your life bring home. This appetizer creates a spicy, crisp, and delicious mouthful sure to fool anyone who would wrinkle up their nose to pheasant. This has quickly become my number 1 requested appetizer by friends and family. It's so simple and so darn good!

Prep

16 min

Cook

61 min

Servings

Difficulty

Hard

Ingredients

1.5 pounds pheasant breast
1 , 4 ounce
12 slices bacon , cut into thirds
6 bamboos skewers , soaked in water for 20 minutes
36 toothpicks

Instructions

1 Cut pheasant breast into 36 pieces and place into a large bowl. Pour liquid from jalapeño peppers over pheasant; stir and marinate at room temperature for 20 minutes.
2 Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat and lightly oil the grate.
3 Drain marinade from pheasant and discard. Place a jalapeño pepper slice on each piece of pheasant breast and wrap with 1/3 of a bacon strip. Skewer 6 bacon-wrapped pheasant pieces onto each skewer.
4 Cook on the preheated grill, turning frequently, until bacon is crispy, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove pheasant pieces from the skewers and insert a toothpick into each piece to serve.

Nutrition per serving

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