How can I parse recursive data structures with JSON.NET?

I have MENUITEM and SCREEN entries defined in a root element MENUSTRUCT from a json string.

The important thing here is that a MENUITEM can contain other MENUITEMs or SCREENs.

I want to parse the whole json string with JSON.NET where I should receive a tree with MENUITEMs that can contain a huge chain of nested MENUITEMs or SCREEN entries.

I snipped a lot of the nested structures from the following json string:

{
"MENUSTRUCT": {
"-text": "GUI.Menu.Root",
"-image": "GUI.Menu.Home",
"-mask": "GUI.Menu.Home.Mask",
"-color": "#E0E0FF",
"-menuid": "MENUTREE",
"MENUITEM": [
  {
    "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.00000003",
    "-image": "GUI.Menu.Menu",
    "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Menu.Mask",
    "-color": "#C0C0FF",
    "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00000003",
    "SCREEN": [
      {
        "-id": "GUI.Dlg.StartupScreen",
        "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.00000103",
        "-image": "GUI.Menu.Screen",
        "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Screen.Mask",
        "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00000103"
      },
      {
        "-id": "GUI.Dlg.Calls",
        "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.Calls",
        "-image": "GUI.Menu.Screen",
        "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Screen.Mask",
        "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00000203"
      }
    ],
    "MENUITEM": [
      {
        "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.00000603",
        "-image": "GUI.Menu.Menu",
        "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Menu.Mask",
        "-color": "#A0A0FF",
        "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00000603",
        "SCREEN": [
          {
            "-id": "GUI.Dlg.SpecialTrips",
            "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.00010603",
            "-image": "GUI.Menu.Screen",
            "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Screen.Mask",
            "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00010603"
          },
          {
            "-id": "GUI.Dlg.SpecialTrips",
            "-text": "GUI.Menu.Text.00020603",
            "-image": "GUI.Menu.Screen",
            "-mask": "GUI.Menu.Screen.Mask",
            "-menuid": "Menu.ID.00020603"
          }
         ]  // end of screen
        }
     ]     // end of nested menuitem
  },
      /* snipped following menuitems */
]  // end of menuitem array
}
}

I tried to deserialize the whole thing with

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<MenuItem>>(jsonString);

I have an object MenuItem which has a property of List<Screen> and one of List<MenuItem> but the whole thing doesn't work out. I think the deserializer is not able to handle the nested MenuItems.

I also tried to parse the tree with JObject but I think this way you need to implement a lot of the parsing by yourself.

JObject obj = JObject.Parse(json);   
var menuItems = from m in obj["MENUSTRUCT"]["MENUITEM"].Children() select m;
List<MenuEntry> menues = this.LoadMenuStructure(menuItems);

Here I have to make sure that I am on the correct JToken but I have no idea if I'm handling with a MenuItem or a Screen.

Is there no other, easier, way to deserialize the the json string without nesting me through all the structures?

Thanks in advance for your help.