Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
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Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#2It's worth pointing out that this isn't some hypothetical. Kangaroo meat is available at most grocery stores and butchers, it's fairly cheap, and quite delicious. It's the red meat I buy most often.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#3It's worth pointing out that this isn't some hypothetical. Kangaroo meat is available at most grocery stores and butchers, it's fairly cheap, and quite delicious. It's the red meat I buy most often.
It's also worth saying that kangaroo in Australia is a bit like deer in the US: city people think the animal is a bit magical, country people think it's a bit of a pest; some people hunt it for food; you can buy the meat in some butchers but it's not in the diet of most; and occasionally it's culled because of population explosion. The only real difference is that the deer is not a national symbol.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#4I've been living out here in Australia for about a year and a half now. It really is a delicious meat, though it's so lean that your options for how to prepare it are pretty slim. I've found that mince is the easiest to work with by far. Kangaroo tacos are really delicious. Burgers with it are decent too. It's very close to beef in taste, just a slight bit bloodier tasting.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#5I've been living out here in Australia for about a year and a half now. It really is a delicious meat, though it's so lean that your options for how to prepare it are pretty slim. I've found that mince is the easiest to work with by far. Kangaroo tacos are really delicious. Burgers with it are decent too. It's very close to beef in taste, just a slight bit bloodier tasting.
It's still a bit game-y for me. What else do you put in the burgers?
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#6I've been living out here in Australia for about a year and a half now. It really is a delicious meat, though it's so lean that your options for how to prepare it are pretty slim. I've found that mince is the easiest to work with by far. Kangaroo tacos are really delicious. Burgers with it are decent too. It's very close to beef in taste, just a slight bit bloodier tasting.
I agree, minced is the way to go otherwise it tends to be really stiff, perhaps slow cooking could solve the stiffness problem but I've never tried.
Roo burgers are the easiest solution and can be found at any Aussie supermarket or butcher.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#7I've been living out here in Australia for about a year and a half now. It really is a delicious meat, though it's so lean that your options for how to prepare it are pretty slim. I've found that mince is the easiest to work with by far. Kangaroo tacos are really delicious. Burgers with it are decent too. It's very close to beef in taste, just a slight bit bloodier tasting.
I agree, minced is the way to go otherwise it tends to be really stiff, perhaps slow cooking could solve the stiffness problem but I've never tried. Roo burgers are the easiest solution and can be found at any Aussie supermarket or butcher.
Having never had the pleasure of trying kangaroo you make it sound like venison or bison here. VERY lean, so you must eat it rare to medium rare or you wind up over cooking the crap out of it and it winds up like tough shoe leather. Ugh.
I hope one day to make it down there and try some kangaroo steak, or some braized slow cooked kangaroo. I bet it's very healthy red meat, unless its farm raised. What is the natural diet of kangaroo? Grasses? Leaves? I doubt it is grain.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#8Just tell the Chinese it has some sort of medicinal value or is a wild aphrodisiac and your Kangaroo problems will be solved.
Chinese demand for this kind of medicine or sexual stimulation is insatiable as we have seen with Ivory and Rino Horn. The animal may require protection at some point to avoid extinction.
With careful marketing and some convincing it could very well be a billion dollar industry.
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#9I've been living out here in Australia for about a year and a half now. It really is a delicious meat, though it's so lean that your options for how to prepare it are pretty slim. I've found that mince is the easiest to work with by far. Kangaroo tacos are really delicious. Burgers with it are decent too. It's very close to beef in taste, just a slight bit bloodier tasting.
It's still a bit game-y for me. What else do you put in the burgers?
Gamey'ness is usually bad meat. People say the same about Lamb.
It tastes "gamey". That's because you are eating tough old lamb. I bet it's the same for kangaroo.
If it's very lean I would add some fat to it. Pork fat :)
I bet that would make a killer sausage.
Re: Australians told to eat more kangaroo as population hits double that of humans
#10And yet California insists on continuing to ban all kangaroo imports into the state.