Can you eat a Cockerel?

Question

Normally we only eat hens...
KFC only sell you hen meat...So can we eat cockerels. ???

Answer 1

If it's properly cocked...er.. cooked!

Answer 2

There is a very old recipe that advises boiling the cockerel together with an old axe head. After five hours of cooking, throw away the cockerel and eat the axe head.

Answer 3

Hi Pop,
Yup, KFC and the like only use the female of the species.
I had two cockerels on the farm, kept one for breeding, and shot
the other noisy 4:30 am Beggar.
Took his feathers, feet, head, and innards away.
He tasted horrid, even in a casserole with lots of nice stuff bubbling away.
The addition of a tad of garlic did not remove the notion that he had passed wind in the pot.

A tough old bird., and fair play to him, but ghastly to eat.

Stick to hens, mon ami !

Bob.

Answer 4

Ingredients :
2 cockerels
1 large onion
4 lemon
4 mint leaves
tarragon
1 glass of olive oil
salt & pepper
pinch of nutmeg

Recipe :
1-Cut the cockerels in half, wash and drain.

2-Squeeze the lemon, slice the onion, chop the tarragon and mint and mix everything in a bowl with the olive oil and nutmeg. Add cockerels, season and mix everything with a wooden spoon. Leave to marinate for 30 mins.

Crisp Cocker:

Clean bird and rub inside and out with salt and lemon juice. Dip a small bouquet or parsley in salt and pepper, add to 1 tablespoon butter the heart and liver, cooked and chopped, and stuff into bird. Melt remaining butter, add onion in halves, and lightly brown the bird on all sides. Add water and slowly steam over slow heat, basting from time to time, until tender. Or, after the first light browning and basting, bake until crisp in moderate (350) oven for 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours. Serve with fried potatoes, salad and stewed fruit.

3-Turn on the grill and put the cockerels under skin-down. Cook for about 30 mins and turn. Cook for a further 20 mins.

Cockerel in coconut milk

1 cockerel
1 bundle carrots
1 chinese cabbage
1 red and 1 green paprika
4 onions
1 tin coconut milk
1 tin tangerines
1 clove of garlic
1 small piece of ginger
some sherry
some sesame oil
soy sauce
curry
chinese mixed spices
five spices powder

Preparation:

Wash the cockerel and divide it into four parts. Touch it lightly dry with kitchen paper. Put sesame oil in the wok or a great fryer and heat it. It has the right temperature, if little bubbles go up when you put in a wooden spoon. Put in the cockerel and fry it done. Clean the carrots and reduce it to small pieces. Take out the cockerel and lay it aside. Put the carrots in the wok and cook it with little heat. Clean the chinese cabbage and the paprikas and reduce it, the onions, the glove of garlic and the ginger to small pieces. Put all together in the wok. Put the tangerine juice and the sherry to that and cook it all. Peel off the cockerel from its bones and chop the bird. Put the cockerel, the soy sauce the spices and the coconut milk in the wok. Stire up well and don't forget to taste. At last put the tangerines to that. This dish harmonizes together with baguettes and beer.

Answer 5

when i first got married me and my husbend where very poor we never a penny and i cooked a cockrele waiting on my husbend come ing home from work to impress him . i was only 18 .9 years ago.i killed it pluked it. flees all over.i gutted it washed it cooked it and waited on my husbend returning from work .i surved it .we both looked at it.he said where did you get the money to bye this lovely chicken.it lookes delishos.i never said anything ever .i didnot eat the thing .my sisster came latrer thet night and took me to macdonnalds and i had a chiken sandwich.the point beeing u will eat anything when your hungry.he couldent tell the diference.could you .only one way to find out.eat it

Answer 6

We had a cockerel called spike. The fox killed him so we ate him -yum.

Answer 7

yes but the meat would need to be made in to a stew,to soften the meat,its what is often called a old boiler bird,old chickens are called this too

Answer 8

Yes, cook the same way as a chicken

Answer 9

no different to eating a hen,in the long run it's all chicken :) :) enjoy.

Answer 10

Sure why not - people are eating anything and everything nowadays