Roast Pheasant With Venison Sausages And Rich Red Wine And Mushroom Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 oven-ready pheasants, just under 2 lbs. in weight each
  • 8 rashers (slices) of unsmoked streaky bacon
  • 1½ oz. butter, slightly softened
  • Freshly-ground black pepper
  • salt – kosher salt if you have it
  • 1 tsp. dried thyme
  • 1 lemon, halved
  • 2 sprigs of rosemary
  • 45 g. (a little over 1½ oz.) mixed dried mushrooms (shiitake, porcini, Chanterelle etc.)
  • 1 pint chicken stock, home-made if possible
  • ½ pint full-bodied red wine
  • 6 venison sausages (I had to use pork links but stronger-flavoured ones are better).
  • Some oil (a bland-flavoured one like vegetable or groundnut)
  • juice of ½ a lemon
  • About 1 tbsp. butter
  • 2 small red onions, finely chopped
  • 2 nice fat cloves of garlic, crushed.
  • 1½ oz. butter
  • 1½ oz. all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp. redcurrant jelly
  • A good splash of balsamic vinegar
  • A good handful of finely-chopped curly parsley
  • ¼ pint more chicken stock, to thin sauce of necessary
  • Some more chopped parsley to garnish

Description

This Is An Amalgam Of Several Recipes I Have Collected Over The Years For Roast Pheasant, With Some Major Tweaks Of My Own Added. Very Rich, Very Robust. You’d Better Be Hungry. Note: My Photos Aren't All That Great... And Instead Of Venison Sausages (f

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