Thread: How to prepare and eat possum?

Very, very good tucker. A possum eats the best. Took my daughter in to the Urewera for a gap year some years ago. Before TUT. We stayed almost a year, eating possum on average, about four times a week. Slow cooked in a camp oven, oven covered in coals, brilliant. Meat's very oily but you won't notice unless you pressure cook it. friend of mine used to do just that. He would pressure cook over a flame, but only for a short while so he didn't blast the oil out. Then would flour, egg and crumb. Dropped into deep fryer, KFC, like you wouldn't believe.

When you clean a possum you will notice there's very little smell, unlike a rabbit which honk!

Above advice re bucks is good. Have eaten them though when had too. When skinning, always, always get rid of the tail glands as soon as possible.

Give them a go. You won't regret it.