Venison haunch recipe – pan roasted Ingredients For the butter: 250g unsalted butter, softened 2 tbsp ketchup 2 tSp French mustard 20g good-quality olive oil 1 tbsp shallots, finely chopped…
Recipes
Recipe for glazed venison ribs
Glazed venison ribs recipe This venison ribs recipe is a take on a barbecued pork rib recipe that works really well with venison, and uses a cut that is under-utilised…
Citrus-flavoured roast teal by Rose Prince
I have written before about the greatness of a wild mallard breast when perfectly cooked. Likewise, a teal in good condition is the epitome of delicacy. The meat is paler,…
Venison shanks recipe
Now that the start of the roebuck season is here, I wanted to take the opportunity to share possibly my favourite venison shanks recipe. It’s one that fits firmly in…
Trout recipe for croquettes (or trout fish fingers by another name)
Trout recipe that’s a little bit different There are undoubtedly finer things in life than a fish finger sandwich, but few are more comforting. You can always reach for the…
A recipe for meatballs made with game
The best meat for game meatballs Whenever I use mixed game as dice for a stew or as meat to be minced, I look to the tough cuts that have…
Recipe for a spicy venison stew
Game is perfectly adaptable for Indonesian dishes, as this venison stew will prove. Substituting chicken with pheasant or rabbit for satay works beautifully. A spatchcock partridge marinated in fragrant spices…
A recipe for freshly-caught home-smoked mackerel
Smoked mackerel recipe Wild food is wild food and you don’t get much wilder than a summer mackerel straight off the hook. Mackerel is an oily fish and its quality…
Recipe for quail Scotch eggs
This Scotch egg recipe made with quail is so ludicrously posh as a dish that it slightly offends my wishy-washy, lefty liberalism. But it tastes so good, looks so funky…
The perfect pheasant supper dish – pheasant Holstein
I ate a version of this pheasant supper recipe not long before Christmas last year, in what seemed like a brief outbreak of unlocked freedom. The venue was the Fox…
A recipe for a buttery rabbit dhal
This recipe for cooking rabbit is short, satisfying and partly stolen, or perhaps it would be better to say it’s inspired by a dish that appears in Rick Stein’s great…
A recipe for pulled venison nachos
Delicious venison snack recipe By now, you may have gathered that most of my recipes tend to be fast food or snack-style dishes and this one is no exception. It…
Partridge, pigeon and pheasant Wellington
My first experience of rough shooting came with friends in Norfolk on a 2,500-acre farm not far from King’s Lynn. The farm had acres and acres of sugar beet as…
Pot roasted duck with potatoes
I have a confession to make. This pot roast duck dish was cooked with the legs of a farmed duck. The plan was to use wild mallard legs, but moving…
Seared pigeon and special fried rice
Pigeon breast is a favourite of mine and I am making an effort to get more of Asia into my kitchen. Accordingly, I’ve been loosely adapting many classic dishes from…
Partridge goujons – so delicious the kids will fight over them
This partridge goujons recipe isn’t going to win you a prize for originality but there’s a reason it’s so popular. It’s undeniably one of the fastest and tastiest ways you…
Five recipes that use the whole of a pheasant
The principle of making the most of what you’ve got was never absent from our great-grandmothers’ kitchens. Yet today commercial poultry is rarely sold with the giblets, head or feet…
An easy and delicious recipe for pigeon paella with chorizo
Some of my favourite memories of shooting, are of heading out with my uncles in Spain in pursuit of woodpigeon and this pigeon paella recipe takes me back to those…
Enjoy the delicious, fresh flavours of this venison tataki recipe
Pheasant, partridge and wild duck are ideal meats for stir-fry and venison is a perfect alternative to beef or fresh tuna in this venison fillet recipe, tataki. Fillet is extravagant,…
Jamaican jerk pheasant recipe
I have always cooked some nice Caribbean foods, but jerk chicken, rice and peas is one of my top meals. This got me thinking about a Jamaican jerk pheasant recipe.…