Pheasant recipes/suggestions?

McKneff

Just cook them as you would chicken peices.

Taste a bit stronger than chicken but very nice. Meat is a bit darker.

susyrosy

I always cook pheasants with bacon strips over the breast, in a roasting pan with stock part way up its side, and foil over the top. It's very prone to drying out, and this helps. Don't over cook - pierce with a skewer or sharp knife - they will slide in when cooked. Remove the foil to brown nearly at the end of cooking, though it will probably brown even with the foil. It doesnt take long to cook - say, half an hour? But test every 10 mins or so. Cooking two pheasants together keeps them moist - often sold in pairs at a butcher, one !!!!, one hen.

You can also put a lemon and or an onion in the cavity, or in slices on and around quarters.

Serve with mashed potatoes, unless you know how to do game chips (I don't), and root vegetables, as it's a winter dish. Allow one good sized bird for two people, and suggest they use their fingers - made before forks, after all, and easier to eat the legs that way.

It's yummy!

S x

greenbee

If they are pieces rather than whole pheasants, casserole with root vegetables and juniper berries or myrtle leaves if you have any. Otherwise a bay leaf is fine. If whole pheasants, pot roast with a few veggies. Remember the meat is very lean, so you need to keep them moist.

lostinrates

Stew...seasoned as oters have said with thinks like juniper berries, red wine and bay. stew is good because it can be dry and it has a strong flavour. serve with game chips....or if lazy like me crisps.You used to be able to buy crisps hashed like game chips but I haven't seen them for years.

Penelope_Penguin

dori2o wrote: »

Out on Bury Market today we bought some pheasant quaters (6 for £3.50) but neither I nor my wife have ever cooked them or ate them.

Is there any special preperation we need to do to them? What is the best way to cook them. Would prefer for them to stay as quaters, but any other methods would be great to hear.

Many thanks

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to give you more ideas.