You sarcastic SOB's, have we all forgotten that we arrived here because each and everyone one of us googled hippo recipes after watching Nat Geo.

But AS AN ADDED BONUS: Vinegar works great as a tenderizer. I also added poblano and jalapeño peppers for a 'lil TX kick!

Tried it and lived. We have a few troublesome hippos out here in South Africa. Will be eating my way through them for the next few centuries. Anyone with an elephant or rhino recipe?

Thembelani, here's one for elephant: Wild Game Elephant Stew

At our State Fair, we serve 'everything on a stick,' so I cut down one of our trees. Worked perfectly! 😊️

At our state (Iowa) fairs we serve Minnesotans on sticks!

Awsome recipe! With help from the entire village we were able to bring down a ferocious hippo (with only a few human lives lost, but worth the cost)! Our village decided to cure half the hippo and save it for a second go-around of stew, and added a couple wild boars to the batch since some of our villagers are a bit "hoggish" in taking more than their share of stew. We had all the kids old enough to hold a cutting instrument doing the vegetable prep, and the adults fashioned "oars" of small saplings to stir and the men folk took turns doing the stirring of the stew. The women supervised the children and created a whole lot of gravy, pouring it into a hollowed-out tree that some of the younger men put together with smaller trees as "chutes" that once opened would let the gravy flow into the main stew hole, which was in-ground like a pool and lined with huge palm leaves and sealed with sap and cured to dry before we used it. We're not quite done, and have substituted several local herbs and spices for some of the salt, but in a week or so, we should be having a grand stew party! (Those that live through the preparation, that is!) ;)

Fun, especially when we need a good laugh!

I tried making this and ended up with a hippopota-mess!

Great reply Leslie!

I would have given this a 5 star review except I think they over did it on the carrots. I'm just not a big fan of cooked carrots with or without hare.

I'm gonna have to try this!

Is there an instapot variation for this recipe? I'd like to use this recipe for my family's dinners this week while I work late. They have big appetites and I'm not a keen cook.

Couldn't stop laughing! So many clever funny people! Humour rules!

I cut it down to serve 6, since I didn't have room in the fridge for that amount of leftovers. Only real problem I had was getting the Hippo out of the zoo by cover of darkness. Lol

The tail is best used as a spoon.

Wonderful recipe! I have it on yearly rotation now because the family loves it. The gravy was so rich that I decided to trim the fat first on our second hippo. I reserved it for making soap to give as gifts, so it took an extra year. Waste not, want not! Hippo soap is luxurious. Everyone joined in and enjoyed the festivities. Oh, and you can also add rabbit or squirrel essential oil to the soap, it smells heavenly!

Do this "Luau style". Dig huge pit... meat on bottom, vegetables on top. Toss in 250 cloves of garlic, 100 sliced onions. Palm leaves on top to hold in steam.

Charcoal over palm leaves... Toss on 1 can charcoal fluid... MOVE WAAAAY back... and light that sucker up. By the way. Be sure rabbits are dead. They kept trying to jump out...

Thank you so much. My family complain that I don't vary my protein choices enough, it's always hippo, hippo, hippo, but this recipe was a wonderful change up to a usually very boring, boilerplate protein choice.