Kangaroo Tail Cookout

Elder and Sister Tom and Laurel Rohlfing
Australia Adelaide Mission

Cooking kangaroo tail is an Aboriginal event passed down from generation to generation.  You can't cook a kangaroo tail until you've been shown how by your father or someone older in your family--like a rite of passage.  The senior couple in Alice Springs, right in the center of Australia where many Aboriginals live, were invited by some investigators who wanted to share this special tradition with them. It doesn't happen every day.!

1. Burn fur directly in fire

2. Scrape burnt fur off tail

3. Wrap in tinfoil and bury in coals to cook

4. When done (determined by smell) remove from coals, unwrap and cut between bone joints

5. Strip cooked skin from meat

6. Eat meat off the bones with hands like you would a chicken drum stick

Meat is kind of like rabbit, tender, but very greasy. The cooked meat does not keep well so only cook what you will eat, and eat all that you cook!