Soft shell turtle - Good to eat?

[pervis]

I came across one one time in my ups truck. Sucker was no joke bigger than a trash can lid. I tried to help it cross the road it was meaner than haties

[cva34]

Ate my share as kid mostly soups stews gumbos....Yea there a little trouble to clean..But of course now days you can sit around and watch TV or play on cell...I go for turtle cleaning its more fun...and free lunch

[SaltwaterSlick]

My uncle had a seafood place under the bridge right by McDermott yard.


The best way to have it is Turtle Sauce Piquant. It’s more like a crawfish etouffee than a gumbo.

Man, with a good sauce piquant, boot leather tastes good!! Had an old friend on our deer lease that grew up on Lake Pontchartrain and he'd make a sauce piquant in a big ol Mag-na-lite 2 burner pot or pot roast duck that would make you go home an' slap yo mamma cause she can't cook like dat!! My favorite I think tho was when he used redfish.

[mjhaverkamp]

They are good fried or in soup and gumbo, I think they are a lot easier to clean than a hard shell, pretty sure it can be done with just a sharp knife. My Dad or Grandpappy always did the cleaning.

[rjtkdplus]

They are good just be sure to remove all of the fat.

[Hooverfb]

Delicious to eat.

[BitBackShot]

I have eaten it in soup, fried, and very similar to this. Except, I like to use gulf oysters instead of shrimp. Either is good though. The main ingredient is the cajun holy grail.

Have done it this way too. Except I used crawfish instead of shrimp. And chicken instead of turtle.

[bruschu]

Carve out meat and then make turtle soup following Brennan's recipe: http://www.brennansneworleans.com/recipes/turtle-soup/.

I like to grind it versus cubing.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Carve out meat and then make turtle soup following Brennan's recipe: http://www.brennansneworleans.com/recipes/turtle-soup/.

I like to grind it versus cubing.

That sounds like the ticket right there!! Thanks for posting.

[equyst]

Yeah they're good to eat

[cactusassjohn]

They are excellent table fair. They need to be put in a tub of fresh water to purge. My brother used a galvanized tank maybe thigh high. He would catch them and put them in the tank for a couple of days, then clean and chicken fry them. That was in MO and the temps weren't what they will be in TXT.

x'2 plus cut the head and bleed them out

[BolilloLoco]

No sir. Not as long as there are speckled trout, redfish, bass, catfish and crappie swimming in Texas. Theres also alot of deer and pigs runnin around these days.

[RaginCagin]

Heck yeah its good. It sales for about $18 per lb. around here.

[Stump]

Ate plenty of fried fried softshells when I was a youngster. I really liked it. Havent heard of purging?

[Stump]

I came across one one time in my ups truck. Sucker was no joke bigger than a trash can lid. I tried to help it cross the road it was meaner than haties

I was about to say I didnt know they could jump that high