Best preparation/recipe for MT Lion?

[Tony Trietch]

Hey Rokslide, I was fortunate to tag a lion this fall and am curious how everyone likes to cook them. I know they have to be cooked to 160*.

As I sit down to start butchering the big tom, I am wondering how to best cut-grind before wrapping and freezing. What is the best way you have eaten them? That time you had lion and it was amazing, how was it prepared? What cut? Steaks? Sausage? Roasts?
Thanks in advance.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Do the backstraps just like a pork loin, bacon wrapped is even better. The rest we grind into snack sticks and breakfast sausage.

 

[Tony Trietch]

Made the loins into fajitas, it was fantastic. SLiced thin and pounded them thinner then sliced into strips.. fantastic
the four quarters are deboned and ready to be ground with pork fat.

 

[Team4LongGun]

My kids go nuts for the hind quarters being done like pulled pork.

 

[Grillnugz]

Cat burgers are always good

 

[Jbehredt]

Sub for pork in whatever your favorites are. Green chile is the CO go to.

 

[fisherman983]

I quartered the cats I've killed just like deer. The same muscles that make good steaks on a deer make good steaks on a cat, everything else was ground into burger and used just like pork.
I cut my steaks fairly thin, cooked in olive oil, and salt pepper garlic.
Some got teriyaki sauced

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[magnum44270]

Think of it as lean lean pork loin. So anything with sauce it can absorb. Enchiladas, birria tacos, stew

 

[Big_Sky_Guy]

As stated before, I butcher a lion just like a deer.

I steak the rounds and loins. Get a roast out of each hind.

I've slow cooked whole shoulders and it was great!

Stew meat or grind the rest.

 

[180ls1]

Congrats man!

Not lion but I have experience with bobcat. It eats great and I dont find myself doing anything different than I would do with any other wild game.

 

[6mm Remington]

I had steaks and they were rolled in flour and fried in oil & butter. Excellent.
Sausage was also very good. The flavor on lion is real mild. No gamey taste that I could tell.