Southern Stuffed Quail recipe

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Ingredients

¼ cup ground pork
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoons finely chopped carrots
2 tablespoons finely chopped celery
1 clove chopped fresh garlic
2 ½ tablespoons fresh bread crumbs
ground black pepper to taste
8 quail, cleaned and split lengthwise
1 tablespoon bacon drippings

Nutrition Info

230.7 calories
carbohydrate: 1 g
cholesterol: 88.1 mg
fat: 14.4 g
fiber: 0.2 g
protein: 23 g
saturatedFat: 4.1 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 71.4 mg
sugar: 0.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven broiler.

  2. In a bowl, mix the pork, parsley, carrots, celery, garlic, bread crumbs, and pepper.

  3. Arrange the quail in a baking dish. Separate the skin from the breast of each quail, and stuff with equal amounts of the stuffing mixture. Brush with bacon drippings.

  4. Broil the quail 7 minutes on each side in the preheated oven, or to a minimum internal temperature of 180 degrees F (85 degrees C).

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

A truly Southern recipe. A good side dish to go with this is sweet potatoes. You can also grill over coals.

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