EMU: How do you like to cook or eat yours?

[Shalem]

Have you tried eating or cooking emu?

What cuts have you tried (eg neckbones, oyster fillets, fan fillets)?

Do you use any native ingredients?

anything to share on this?

Can you easily buy emu or maybe you have your own emus?

[worowa]

Baby emu is delicious, best poultry I've had. The meat is white.

Adult emu is red meat, strong flavoured...I don't really like it. Maybe as salami or Jerky.

[Shalem]

Worowa

where do you get baby emu from, if you don't mind me asking?

There's an emu farm nearby....I wonder if they'd sell me some baby emu.

Have tried emu salami and jerky and do you make your own?

[Shalem]

I just found a whole stack of useful info on emu (& baby emu) cooking under the Bushfood Plants of the forum, titled "Australian Bushfoods".

sorry maybe I should've done a search before posting a new topic.

Admins - wonder if we can make a copy of this info from the plants section and paste it under this emu topic or even a separate topic in the Cooking section?

[worowa]

I caught my baby emu in WA, inland from Shark Bay.

I did make some jerky/biltong from a fresh adult roadkill. The dog got most of it.

[eataust]

I got spatchcock emu from the Vic Markets in Melbourne, many many years ago. It was the size of a turkey but with much better flavour and much less tough.

I stuffed and roasted it as per a mediaeval goose recipe, with sage-spiced apples, pears and quinces, served with a bread sauce and various roasted veggies on the side.

No wings and almost no breast to speak of, of course, but the drumsticks were something else. It didn't look it it could serve many but slice the drumsticks as if they were breast and it easily served 8, with leftovers.

The skin was thick and almost like crackling; use plentiful butter or oil to make it really crunchy and delicious.

I'm a big fan of mature emu too. As I've suggested in another post, treat it like lamb, not beef, as it has a distinct gamey flavour that doesn't go with everything. I've served it with a native herb crust, BBQd and sliced thickly to go with salads and veggies.

[Shalem]

emu teriyaki (see cookbooks section).

[Bluetongue]

I just found a whole stack of useful info on emu (& baby emu) cooking under the Bushfood Plants of the forum, titled "Australian Bushfoods".

sorry maybe I should've done a search before posting a new topic.

Admins - wonder if we can make a copy of this info from the plants section and paste it under this emu topic or even a separate topic in the Cooking section?

Sorry Shalem, last time I tried to cut and paste, I made a mess of it. Here's the link to the thread I think you're referring to...
http://www.bushfood.net/viewtopic.php?t=22

[Shalem]

A couple of the nearby emu farms have recipes on their websites. I can post up their websites later (or sooner if anyone's really interested).