Game Scotch Eggs – serves 6 Ingredients 12 quail eggs 400g game mince salt and pepper 1 tsp English mustard 100g flour, seasoned with salt and pepper 3 eggs, beaten…
Recipes
Southern fried crispy squirrel recipe
You can buy grey squirrel online and it is advisable to order it ready skinned (the tail is discarded). Squirrel is also on the menu at various pubs and restaurants…
Quick zesty marinated barbecued rabbit with summer salad recipe
Jamie Chandler: We may well be conterminously poised between the end of the last driven season and the beginning of the new, but that in no way means that there…
Hare pie with sweet potato, carrots and cabbage
Ingredients for hare pie 4 hare legs (one per portion) 4 tbsp rock salt 1 tbsp cracked black pepper 600ml vegetable oil Filling from 4 large pork sausages 40g pistachio…
BBQ recipe – Venison burger with blue cheese and crispy shallots
Venison Burger with Blue Cheese and Crispy Shallots Serves 4 650g venison mince 5 tbsp double cream 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed ½ tbsp flat leaved parsley, finely…
Pot roasted saddle of venison with mushrooms and asparagus
Ingredients 2½b (1.2kg) saddle of venison 450g mushrooms (any type available) ½ bottle red wine 300ml game stock or beef if game 30 asparagus spears 1 large leek 4 cloves…
Wild garlic pesto
Two recipes for wild garlic pesto – a simple version and an advanced method Wild garlic is one of the most prolific and easily identifiable free foods. It can carpet…
Slow-cooked rabbit and carrots, three ways
Over the centuries, wild rabbit meat has gone in and out of fashion for various reasons, but now it’s making a bit of a renaissance — and with good reason: it’s…
Recipe for Pigeon Pitta from Eat Wild
Ingredients Baby leaf salad Pitta bread Chunk of local black pudding Two rashers of streaky local bacon Two fresh pigeon breasts Small handful of pumpkin seeds Local rapeseed oil …
Woodpigeon, wild cherries and gingerbread
Serving woodpigeon with wild cherries and gingerbread may not be something you’d ever think of doing, but this unusual combination works together very well. Wild cherries aren’t yet in season…
Potted pheasant
Ingredients: 1 pheasant 1 onion, roughly chopped 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped Goose fat Salt and freshly ground black pepper 250ml red wine 450ml pheasant stock 100g bacon, roughly…
Rabbit with freshly made pasta
Ingredients Meat from rabbit legs A good strong Cheddar cheese A little local cider Garlic Sage Freshly made pasta Ingredients 100g of white spelt flour per person 1 egg,…
Pigeon Ravioli
Ingredients Dough: 400g plain flour 1 tsp salt 4 eggs & 1 egg yolk for egg wash 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp of mixed herbs Filling: 6 pigeon breasts…
Five quick pigeon recipes to make in under 20 minutes
1. Pigeon and wild mushrooms Just add garlic, kale, bacon and wild mushrooms for a delicious supper. Kale is having a bit of a moment right now, being hailed as a…
Shredded crispy “wild” duck pancakes recipe
Ingredients Duck breasts Sesame seed oil (or any oil that’s handy) Soy sauce Garlic powder Pepper Chinese five spice powder A large pan of water Wok (or frying pan) …
MPs complain about forking out £4 for venison pie
For the rest of us, enjoying a serving of game pie in a central London restaurant with a view of the River Thames would set us back about £15-£20. At…
Venison haggis recipe for Burns night
Venison loins, venison haggis, chanterelles, leeks, potato, beetroot, basil pesto and truffle jus Ingredients 2 leeks, chopped 125g chanterelle mushrooms butter salt and pepper 4 x 250g pieces venison loin…
Pan-seared venison loin
Ingredients For the venison loin 200g venison loin per person 25g butter Salt and pepper For fondant potato 4 potatoes weighing 200 to 300g 225g unsalted butter 150ml chicken stock…
A day on the River Cottage game cookery course
What a view. The Devon and Dorset border spread out before me on the first chilly day of the winter as I waited on top of a hill with my…
Partridge, pear and venison terrine with spiced pear chutney
Chutney ingredients 3 pears 1 banana 35g sultanas 1 garlic clove 35g caster sugar 100ml white wine vinegar Pinch turmeric Pinch ginger powder Terrine ingredients 500g venison sausage meat *…