Porcupine pot

**aydenw** · 09-04-2013, 20:50

Okay so i was lucky enough to get a "doring vark "porcupine from one of my mates and after some serious graaft to get all the quills out started looking around for a recipe for it . what i eventually found from hours on the net was that the "rugvel"or back skin is a delicasy or so they say but unless i done something very wrong wasn't overly impressed with that part , But on the other hand the meat itself was brilliant we cooked that in a potjie and done a beef pot aswell worried that people wouldn't like the taste of the porcupine boy was i wrong they flattened the porcupine pot and didn't touch the beef will try post some pics

**FrankH** · 09-04-2013, 21:56

Interesting , never tried porcupine meat.

How about posting the recipe for the rest of us?

**aydenw** · 10-04-2013, 19:47

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**aydenw** · 10-04-2013, 19:50

it was plucked clean if that is the right word as in photo 1 and then the skin was scored and it was put in a woster sauce and salt marinade with a bit of garlic and then put on the braai till golden brown

**aydenw** · 10-04-2013, 19:54

sorry it was wind dried before being braaied

**farmer-el** · 10-04-2013, 20:06

We have some which terrorise our dogs. Loathe to shoot them. Now maybe I'll also try some! thanks for the post!

**Proudprado** · 10-04-2013, 20:40

I tried the skin in the Karoo over December.

Cleaned properly, wind dried, touched by garlic butter, smothered in apricot jam.

Braaied over a very low heat for hours while we enjoyed some choice red wine from the KWV.

It was kak.

**Peashooter** · 10-04-2013, 21:34

Were we do pest controlling I shoot, and the farm laborers eat. They cant wait for the bakkie to come back after a "drive out" session.

**FrankH** · 10-04-2013, 22:43

Originally Posted by Proudprado

I tried the skin in the Karoo over December.

Cleaned properly, wind dried, touched by garlic butter, smothered in apricot jam.

Braaied over a very low heat for hours while we enjoyed some choice red wine from the KWV.

It was kak.

**treeman** · 11-04-2013, 11:53

Porcupines - frogs and tortoises, soft spot of mine. I am a softie hunter, always worrying about the animal and nature and clean kills. Yet I usually do 2 animals a month.