Smoked & Fried Quail

One of the dishes I remember eating while growing up was cooked hot and fast over a campfire fueled by mesquite wood at our family’s ranch near Brownwood, Texas. My dad and grandpa loved eating quail, and would often bring a pack of semiboneless quail when they could find it at the local butcher. Quail is one of those sleeper proteins that has incredible flavor with little to no gaminess, and doesn’t take much effort to make it really good. You don’t have to fry it, but I like the way the s