My wonderful husband shot a buffalo, and had the butcher make the entire animal into hamburger. The meat is great in spaghetti, tacos, and sloppy joes, but it is too dry for hamburgers, meatloaf, or meatballs. Does anyone have ideas or recipes that I can make with this? I don't want to have to buy ground beef when I have a freezer full of buffalo bull!

I use Bison for almost everything. It is a bit dry - you just need to add moisture to the items. For burgers - I add BBQ sauce. It makes a great chili too. Here are a couple of our favorites -

Meatloaf
1 pound Bison
1 box Stove top stuffing mix
2 eggs
1/2 c. Milk

Blend all together and bake

Cheeseburger pie
1 pound Bison
2 stalk celery
1 green pepper
1 small onion
12 ounce cheddar cheese
2 eggs

Saute the celery, peppers and onion - cook ground bison - mix these all together then add your 2 eggs. Turn off the heat and mix in the cheese. Place these all into a ready baked pie crust. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Top with lettuce, tomato and italian dressing

You can also make great stuffed shells, stuffed cabbage, stuffed peppers. You can use the meatloaf recipe to make tender meatballs for meatball subs and sweetish meatballs.

I know there are more - I just can't think tonight

My husband is a deer hunter, so I understand the dryness issue. A lot of times, I add a little ground beef or ground turkey to my meatloaf recipe, or when making burgers. I actually prefer the deer burger in my chili and sloppy joes, to using ground beef! Have you tried looking up wild game recipes online? Good Luck!

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Thanks for the responses! I will have to try those this week!

One of the restaurants here offers buffalo fajitas. Low in fat.

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Crazy ?...But where do you get bison??? Where do you live?? I didn't know people could hunt bison. Does the meat taste good??? Does it taste funny? I have tried deer and it tastes wild to me. I have ate black bear and that was real good like a rich beef with NO wild taste.

It is delicious and very lean. We are city people so we hunt for ours at Publix and Kroger. It is about $5 a pound here and I buy it regularly. I use it in everything. I am grossed out by ground beef and won't eat it or cook it, so the bison serves a great purpose in our home. My children love it. It doesn't taste gamey at all. The kind I buy is hormone free, organic, all that good stuff, so I feel good about feeding it to my family.

I actually live in Wyoming where you can draw for a license to hunt...Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam! My husband has also shot one at a bison farm before. That works out great. He just picks out which one he wants, shoots it, and the farmer skins it and loads it in the truck, and we take it to the butcher. It tastes just like dry hamburger. Last time we had some steaks made, but we HAD to crock pot it for it to be tender. This time we just had the whole animal made into hamburger. If you go to a farm, the finished product is about $3 a pound we guess, but it is so lean. Sometimes we even have to add pam or oil to the pan if it sticks.

Does he just shoot it because he wants to be manly and shoot an animal?

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Actually, that's the only way this farmer lets them go. Bison are very difficult to separate from the herd, and they can get violent. It would be nice to just load it up and take it to the butcher like cows, but this is the way the farm does it. I think they load up a stock trailer and take it to Omaha once or twice a year, but then we would have to pay a lot more!