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BRAISED PHEASANT WITH MUSHROOMS



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While I use pheasant thighs here, obviously chicken thighs will work, too, and in fact might even be better. I also use a variety of wild mushrooms I pick, but feel free to use whatever array of mushrooms you want. Try to use several different kinds, and yes, you can use reconstituted dried mushrooms, too. I really like to use verjus for the tartness in this recipe -- verjus is preserved, unripe grape juice -- but it can be tough to find. Freshly squeezed lemon juice is a good substitute.

Provided by Hank Shaw

Categories     Main Course

Time 1h45m

Number Of Ingredients 10

8 to 12 pheasant thighs, (or 4 turkey thighs)
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 large onion, (sliced thinly from root to tip)
1 to 2 pounds fresh mushrooms ((use a variety))
1 whole head of garlic (cloves peeled but left whole)
1/2 cup white wine
1 quart chicken, (turkey, pheasant or vegetable stock)
Salt and black pepper
A splash of lemon juice, (white wine vinegar or verjus)
4 tablespoons minced parsley

Steps:

  • In a large Dutch oven or pot, heat the butter over medium-high heat and brown the thighs. Take your time and don't crowd the pot. Do it in batches if need be. Preheat the oven to 325°F.
  • Remove the pheasant and add the sliced onion and mushrooms. Turn the heat up to medium-high and stir well. You may need another tablespoon of butter, as mushrooms soak up a lot. Cook, stirring often, until the onions begin to brown. Salt everything as it cooks.
  • Deglaze the pot with the white wine; turn the heat up to high. Scrape any browned bits off the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon. Add the garlic and the pheasant, skin side up. Let the wine cook down by half.
  • Pour in enough stock to come up to the level of the pheasant skin without submerging it. Doing this will keep the skin crispy when you finish the dish. Cover the pot and cook in the oven for 45 to 60 minutes; you want the meat to be just barely tender. Uncover, turn the heat to 400°F and cook for another 15 to 30 minutes, until the skin crisps up. To finish, add the parsley, then salt, black pepper and some form of acid -- lemon juice, vinegar, etc -- to taste.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 810 kcal, Carbohydrate 8 g, Protein 52 g, Fat 61 g, SaturatedFat 21 g, Cholesterol 313 mg, Sodium 300 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 2 g, ServingSize 1 serving

BRAISED PHEASANTS IN MADEIRA



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Because older birds are not tender enough to be roasted, they are excellent slowly braised and tenderised in a beautiful sauce. The advantage of a little age is, of course, a lot more flavour, so this is probably one of the nicest pheasant dishes of all. It also improves if you make it the day before you need it and re-heat gently before serving. This recipe is suitable for freezing.

Categories     Christmas: Main Courses     One-pot recipes     Casseroles and Stews     Pheasant     Fair game     Life in the Freezer     Christmas: Recipes to freeze

Yield Serves 4-6. See questions Lindsey has answered on this recipe at the end of the method

Number Of Ingredients 21

1 brace pheasants, oven-ready, with neck and giblets
1 onion, sliced in half
1 carrot, split lengthways
1 thick celery stick, cut into chunks (plus leaves)
1 bay leaf
1 sprig fresh thyme
6 black peppercorns
salt
10 fl oz (275 ml) Sercial (dry) Madeira
8 oz (225 g) small open-cap mushrooms
1½ oz (40 g) plain flour
salt and freshly milled black pepper
1½ oz (40 g) butter
1½ oz (40 g) butter, softened
1½ tablespoons groundnut or other flavourless oil
16 shallots, peeled
12 oz (350 g) streaky bacon (in one piece if you can get it)
5 sprigs fresh thyme
2 bay leaves
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
10 fl oz (275 ml) dry white wine

Steps:

  • Make the stock: wash the necks and giblets then place them in a medium-sized saucepan with 1 pint (570 ml) water and add all the stock ingredients. Bring everything up to the boil, skim off any scum that rises to the surface, then turn the heat down to a gentle simmer. Put a lid half on the pan and simmer for 1½-2 hours. After that, strain the stock to use for the sauce. If you haven't managed to persuade your supplier to do it for you, begin by jointing the pheasants. This you do with your very sharpest knife as follows: hold the pheasant with the breast-bone uppermost, make a small incision at the back end, then turn the pheasant up, neck end down, in a vertical position, insert the knife where you made your cut and cut right down to the neck end. Then open the bird out flat, skin side down, and cut all along the backbone. Now turn each side skin side up and pull each end, stretching the whole thing out as far as you can. This will reveal a line which naturally separates the two joints, so simply cut along this line. Do the same with the other half and you will have four joints. Begin cooking the joints of pheasant by seasoning them with salt and pepper and frying them in butter and oil until they have taken on a good golden brown colour. As they brown, transfer them to the casserole. Then, in the fat remaining in the pan, fry the shallots until golden brown and also remove them with a slotted spoon to a plate. The bacon should be de-rinded, cut into 1/3 inch (7.5 mm) cubes and browned as well. Then remove these to join the shallots and leave aside for later. Now add the thyme, bay leaves and chopped garlic to the pheasant and pour in 10 fl oz (275 ml) of the stock, the wine and Madeira. Bring everything to simmering point, then keep the heat low so that the contents just gently, almost imperceptibly bubble. Put on a tight-fitting lid and cook on top of the stove for 45 minutes. After that add the small whole mushrooms, the bacon and shallots, and spoon some of the juices over them. Then put the lid on, bring everything back to a gentle simmer and simmer for a further 45 minutes or until the pheasant is tender when tested with a small skewer. To finish the sauce, mix the softened butter and flour to a smooth paste. Then, using a slotted spoon, remove the pheasant, bacon and vegetables from the casserole to a warmed serving dish and keep warm. Bring the liquid up to a fast boil and let it bubble and reduce by about a third. Next add the butter and flour mixture, using a wire whisk to distribute it. Then, as soon as the sauce comes back to the boil and has thickened, pour it over the pheasant, bacon and vegetables and serve; or cool, refrigerate and re-heat gently the next day. Although imported new potatoes are not very flavoursome, in the winter months they are an ideal accompaniment to something very flavoursome like this and a few snipped chives sprinkled on them improves their flavour. A little steamed broccoli or tiny button sprouts would also be a good accompaniment.

BRAISED PHEASANT IN REMARKABLE MUSHROOM GRAVY



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Make and share this Braised Pheasant in Remarkable Mushroom Gravy recipe from Food.com.

Provided by seapard

Categories     Pheasant

Time 1h40m

Yield 6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

3 pheasants, split and trimmed
1 cup seasoned flour (reserve 2 tbs)
1/4 cup butter
2 -3 tablespoons canola oil
2 -3 cups thinly sliced mushrooms (depends on how much you like mushrooms, if you're not a big fan, you might want to chop them up, too)
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 cup dry white wine
3/4 cup chicken stock
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper

Steps:

  • Dredge pheasant pieces in seasoned flour.
  • Heat butter and 2 tbs oil in dutch oven over medium heat. Add about 5 pheasant pieces -- make sure everything's in a single layer and not overly crowded. Cook 3 minutes/side until brown and remove. Repeat with remaining pheasant, adding oil as needed.
  • Remove last batch of pheasant and set aside. Add mushrooms. Cook about 10 minutes, stirring often.
  • Add onions to mushrooms, cooking for three or four minutes until tender.
  • Add 2 tbsp of reserved seasoned flour. Stir well.
  • Add wine, stock, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Bring to a simmer and make sure to scrape all those bits from the bottom of the dutch oven. Add pheasant pieces.
  • Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 1 hour.
  • Serve with mashed potatoes or egg noodles.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 963.6, Fat 50.1, SaturatedFat 16.1, Cholesterol 305.2, Sodium 648.9, Carbohydrate 20.3, Fiber 1, Sugar 1.9, Protein 94.7

BRAISED PHEASANT



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A heartwarming main dish from the heartland. From the Mississippi Valley chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Provided by Molly53

Categories     Pheasant

Time 1h25m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 pheasant, cleaned and split into 2 halves
salt and pepper
flour
butter

Steps:

  • Rinse pheasant thoroughly.
  • Place in a roasting pan; sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and dot with butter.
  • Add 3/4 cup water and bake at 350F for about 1 1/4 hours or until tender.
  • Baste frequently with sauce in pan.

BRAISED PHEASANT WITH RED CABBAGE WILD RICE



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Categories     Gin     Game     Poultry     Braise     New Year's Day     Raisin     White Wine     Fall     Cabbage     Grape     Wild Rice     Gourmet

Yield Serves 2

Number Of Ingredients 24

For wild rice
1/2 cup wild rice
1 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 slices bacon
1 small onion, sliced thin
2 cups thinly sliced red cabbage (about 1/6 head)
2 teaspoons red-wine vinegar
For pheasant*
a 2-pound pheasant*
1 1/2 cups water
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1/3 cup golden raisins
1/4 cup minced shallots (about 3)
1/4 cup gin
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 teaspoon tomato paste
a 3-inch fresh rosemary sprig plus 1/2 teaspoon minced leaves
1/2 cup halved red and/or green seedless grapes
*Pheasant is available at specialty butcher shops.

Steps:

  • Make wild rice:
  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a fine sieve rinse wild rice well and drain. In a small saucepan bring broth to a simmer. In a small flameproof casserole Sauté rice in oil over moderately high heat, stirring, 1 minute and stir in hot broth and salt and pepper to taste. Bring mixture to a boil and bake, covered, in middle of oven 1 hour, or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
  • While rice is cooking, in a 10-inch skillet cook bacon over moderate heat until crisp and transfer to paper towels to drain. Transfer all but 1 tablespoon drippings to a small bowl and reserve for cooking pheasant.
  • Heat drippings remaining in skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté onion and cabbage, stirring, until softened. Add vinegar and salt and pepper to taste and sauté, stirring, 1 minute. Chop bacon. Just before serving, stir cabbage mixture and bacon into wild rice.
  • Make pheasant while rice is cooking:
  • Rinse pheasant under cold water and pat dry inside and out. Cut pheasant into 6 serving pieces, transferring feet, back, neck, and wing tips to a small saucepan. To saucepan add water and bay leaf and simmer, uncovered, 15 to 20 minutes, or until reduced to about 3/4 cup. Strain stock through a fine sieve into a heatproof bowl.
  • In a small bowl stir together salt, pepper, and allspice. Pat pheasant dry again and sprinkle evenly with allspice mixture. In a 10-inch heavy ovenproof skillet heat oil with 1 tablespoon reserved drippings over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté pheasant until golden, about 5 minutes on each side. Transfer pheasant to a plate.
  • In fat remaining in skillet cook raisins and shallots over moderate heat, stirring, until shallots are softened. Stir in gin and boil until most is evaporated. Stir in wine and boil until reduced by about half. Stir in stock, tomato paste, rosemary sprig, and salt and pepper to taste and bring sauce to a boil.
  • Add pheasant to sauce, skin sides down, and braise, tightly covered, in middle of 350°F. oven until breast meat is cooked through and tender, about 10 minutes. Transfer breasts to a clean plate and keep warm, covered. Braise legs and thighs until cooked through and tender, about 10 minutes more. Transfer legs and thighs to plate and keep warm, covered. Stir minced rosemary and grapes into sauce and boil until slightly thickened, about 1 minute.
  • Divide pheasant between 2 dinner plates, spooning sauce over it, and serve with red cabbage wild rice.

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