Game cookery recipe: A fantastic game cookery recipe using pheasant and an excuse to raid the freezer!
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Ingredients:
1. Preheat the oven to180°C. Using some butter, wipe and grease your cooking dish
2. Roughly slice the shallots, garlic and mushrooms and place in the bottom of the dish.
3. Sit your pheasant breasts on top and season. Cover with a few slices of bacon and a sprig
of rosemary.
4. In a saucepan, make a white sauce by melting 1oz butter, adding the flour and cold milk (see video above).
5. Bring gently to the boil, whisking the mixture continuously until it becomes a thick sauce and turn down the heat.
6. Add a glug of sherry.
7. Pour the sauce over the pheasant breasts and cook uncovered in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for
25 minutes.
8. Serve with a thick hunk of bread.
If you can’t get fresh rosemary then use dried. Use any type of sherry. Use an onion if you cannot find shallots and serve hot from the dish with the sauce bubbling.
