Have you eveer eaten Kangaroo (seriously) & if so, did it taste good or bad? Can you explain it?!
Answers: There is a restaurant, not far from where I live, that was on the Food Network. It was on a show talking about Coca Cola. On it, it featured this restaurant that serves Kangaroo with Coca Cola sauce. I love trying new things & love Coke. So I've debated on going down there sometime & trying it. But I'm kind of afraid it would taste really nasty & I would've wasted my time, a trip, money & taste buds. So if you've TRULY eaten Kangaroo, please let me know what it tastes like. Thanks!
When I was a chef we cooked it in Singapore at the hotel I was a sous chef in and all of the others have hit it almost on the head, they have surrounded it but not knocked it out.
True it has a beefy, slighty gamey taste is very low in fat, most of the meat comes from the tail and rump, the legs are just to tough with all that hopping. It is commercially farmed in Australia, like beef and lamb.
There is were I feel it gets its taste, more a cross between beef and older lamb but tastey, the C.C marinate helps breakdown the fibers in the meat, but is not a major issue, we used it in a dish similar to another famous Australian dish called "Carpetbagger steak", it is split and seasoned then rolled with oyster's in the middle and grilled, we served i with a hollandaise sauce flavoured with and I will spell this wrong for you Aussies "wordel seeds", they are small and brown, when ground smell like coffee, we added them to the reduction we made the sauce with.
Try it if you want it is not a strange flavour and you might be pleasantly surprise, I have also had it in soup form, I picked up a can of Kangaroo Tail soup in Germany while there for Oktoberfest years back.
i have had kangaroo, i guess the best way for me to describe it is "kinda beefy" i am not a big meat eater but obviously had to try it, i am not a steak eater, i just prefer chicken,but it wasnt unpleasant,, i have had boar and yak and meats like that and they were not nice, very fatty, and greasy to eat, i had those 2 at a mongolian eating place and suspect it was both the meat and the cooking method but the kangaroo wasnt fatty at all, and like i said, beefy, its so hard to describe how something tastes but thats as near as i can go, hope its helped if only a little, my advice? give it a go, you may love it but at least you would know
I've had it a couple of times. It has a slight gamey flavour but is actually quite tasteless as has very little fat - that tends to make it slightly tough. It's not horrible but it's nothing like as good a steak as we know it. Personally, I wouldn't waste my money trying it.
If you can get kangaroo meat, marinading a slab in (regular) Coca Cola overnight, then sprinkling it with salt and pepper and slapping it on the barbecue grill is a GREAT way to cook it!
It tastes like kangaroo, of course! But if you INSIST on comparisons, it tastes like a cross between beef and pheasant.
I had a big juicy "jumpsteak" last time I was Down Under, and enjoyed it very much. Of course I also ate (and thoroughly enjoyed) wombat, witchety-grubs, deep-sea-bugs, and a meat pie called a "2 by 4" (or something!), so I may not be all that trustworthy a source for whether something tastes "good"!