Hazel grouse

The hazel grouse is a bird from group kuroobrazny, subfamilies tetereviny, considered as a pine-forest game. There lives a hazel grouse in the woods, preferential fir-tree, deciduous, or mixed, near reservoirs and berry-pickers, in Siberia, in Altai, the Urals, Sakhalin, in Mongolia, the Southern Buryatia, Korea, Japan, in Central, Western, northern Europe.

The hazel grouse – a bird small, weighs about 400 grams, growth of her about 40 cm. Recognize a hazel grouse by camouflage motley plumage: to gray, red, black, white stripes and specks. Samochki and males do not differ from each other in a coloring, but males are allocated thanks to a cop on the head, brighter red strip over eyes and to a spot of black color over a beak.

There live hazel grouses in couples, the nests arrange on the earth covered with a moss or a grass.

These birds eat berries, greens, insects are in summertime, and get to themselves a forage on trees in the winter: eat around branches of bushes and trees.

Hunting for hazel grouses except people is conducted by an owl, a sable, a marten, a fox, a hawk.

In what advantage of a hazel grouse

Meat at a hazel grouse white and gentle on taste, contains in it many fats and proteins therefore it is very nutritious.

This game is appreciated availability of potassium, phosphorus and sodium in meat, a large amount of vitamins from group B.

It is noticed also that populations of a hazel grouse most often are located in places, pure from the point of view of ecology, therefore his meat often surpasses fowl in sanitary indicators.

Caloric content of 100 grams of meat of a hazel grouse makes 250 calories.

Preparation of a hazel grouse

This bird was always held in high esteem at French. The original recipe of Russian salad, for example, assumes use of fillet of a hazel grouse. And in France cook the well-known tartlets (pies) from puff pastry with a hazel grouse.

To prepare a hazel grouse for further culinary processing, his carcass is recommended to weld in milk – to bring to boiling and at once to take out. So tastes of meat remain.

For full preparation the hazel grouse needs 20-25 minutes – as well as chicken, prepares he quickly. Check for readiness a bird a needle – it has to puncture easily meat and it is also easy leave.

At the same time it is important to know several rules of preparation of dishes from a hazel grouse. Bake meat of this bird at high temperature and quickly not to overdry it. It is necessary to fry a hazel grouse also on big fire, on the heated frying pan, without cover.

The simplest recipe of preparation of a hazel grouse: I kiss, the drawn carcass is rubbed with salt, black pepper, larded salted pork fat. Sauce can be made for a hazel grouse from oil on which the bird was fried – add cream or sour cream, or broth to it, boil. It is not necessary to cook often such sauce – the processed oil is not useful in large numbers, but the gas station prepared thus very tasty, and it is difficult to refuse it.

Fried or baked vegetables, berries and mushrooms are considered as a good garnish for a hazel grouse. Also pineapples and a kiwi are combined with it.

In field conditions it is possible to prepare a hazel grouse on - hunting: in the prepared carcass put cowberry, a sugar piece, whenever possible, butter, fix a section toothpicks or wooden thin sticks. After that the carcass is larded fat, oiled vegetable and fried on a skewer. After meat will be roasted to readiness, it is removed, turned in burdocks for 5 minutes. It is considered that thanks to it meat has a sweetish taste.

Just meatballs from meat of a hazel grouse prepare. It is necessary to make forcemeat, to wet it in milk with white loaf, to add salt and pepper then to knead and create bitka. They prepare in the stewpan which is previously processed by butter, and it is better to stew them in broth, no more than 15 minutes. Give meatballs from a hazel grouse with rice, saucing (any).

On meat of a hazel grouse it is possible to cook soups, his fillet is ideal for salads, sandwiches and other snack.

Harm of meat of a hazel grouse

To abuse meat of a hazel grouse, as well as other proteinaceous food it is impossible for those who have problems with functionality of a GIT, with kidneys, cardiovascular system, a metabolism.

But generally, if not to take individual intolerance in attention that happens infrequently, meat of a hazel grouse – exclusively useful, nutritious and tasty product.