Swan Casserole

Name: Swan Casserole
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 h
Total time: 10 h 20 min
Ingredients: 2 swan breasts, cubed.; Chilli powder, to taste.; Garlic cloves.; 1 litre water.; 30ml olive oil.; 3 celery leaves, chopped.; 12 spring onions.; Salt and pepper, to taste.; 4 large onions, chopped.; 1 green pepper, chopped.; 3 apples, skinned, cored and sliced.; Parsley.; Maggi dry mushroom soup mix.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Alan Davis
Prep:20 minutes Cook:10 hours Difficulty:2

Ingrediants:

2 swan breasts, cubed.
Chilli powder, to taste.
Garlic cloves.
1 litre water.
30ml olive oil.
3 celery leaves, chopped.
12 spring onions.
Salt and pepper, to taste.
4 large onions, chopped.
1 green pepper, chopped.
3 apples, skinned, cored and sliced.
Parsley.
Maggi dry mushroom soup mix.

Directions:

To reduce the gamey taste you can blanch overnight.
Place swan in a bowl, fill and cover with salt water.
Remove before cooking, wash and dry meat.
Sauté onions, garlic, celery, and green pepper in a frying pan.
Transfer to the crockpot.
Season swan with salt, black pepper, and chilli.
Heat oil in frying pan until very hot and brown swan portions.
Cook for a few minutes just to seal in flavour and transfer to crockpot.
Add water, cover and cook for 8 hours.
About 1 hour before serving add spring onions, apple and parsley.
Stir in maggi soup mix to thicken.
Serve over rice.

Swan
Swan There are seven species of swans in the world, all pure white, except for the Australian black swan and the South American black-necked swan. The black swan is an Australian bird that flew to New Zealand around 1860 at the same time as acclimatization societies were releasing it as a game bird, resulting in an explosion of swan numbers.
The population peaked in the 1960s at around 100,000 birds; the bulk of the national population are resident at Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury, with numbers estimated in excess of 60,000. This number dropped dramatically to 10,000 following the Wahine storm in 1968. A combination of habitat change and silting from neighbouring farms has seen the population stabilise at this number. The main concentrations of the birds are now to be found on coastal lakes and lagoons around the South Island, and in the North Island, in the Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay, as well as on inland lakes in the Waikato and Rotorua. The Kaipara Harbour in the north also has a large population of swans with a good spread throughout Northland’s lakes.