Pheasant Roast
The other weekend, we have been to one of the famous farmers’ market in UK which is at Aldercarr farm. my favourite farm shop.
We were delighted to see so many farmers and small scale businesses promoting their produce grown locally. There were some amazing stalls with some incredible variety of things.
We were dearly impressed with the wide range of selection that’s available. Our main reason for the visit was Rocky, being a ardent fan of game meat wanted to try a different bird meat this time and so we were off there and we found a local game meat produce and picked up pheasant for Sunday roast.
Visited their farm-shop as well and bought some fresh veggies to go with my roast. As its a new territory for me, I was quite apprehensive first but to my utmost delight, I have discovered that the meat is simply divine.
Recipe was picked from here but I adapted to my taste by changing few ingredients and according to our taste.
1 pack of parma ham
thyme sprigs a bunch
1 pheasant, washed and cleaned
Olive oil for drizzling
half tub of ricotto cheese
Heat oven to 220c.
Slice 2 layers of parma ham and chop finely, add ricotta cheese and few thyme leaves with sea salt. Put this stuffing into the bird and layer the remaining parma ham on the top and put few sprigs here n there and even stuff with bird as well.
Put the pheasants in a roasting tin, season with pepper and drizzle with oil.
Roast for around 30 min and turn the pheasant and another 30 minutes more, basting every now and then with the pan juices until the legs are no longer pink.
Serve with Winter Roast veggies which were perfect with the pheasant.
Stumble it!
January 30th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Every Autumn I make Phesant, then here in Belgium it is the hunting season , then these birds are available fresh.
I always make them with a cream sauce and serve with cranberry and apple sauce.
Your looks so delicious.
Thank you happy cook, ya you can see them everywhere now!! and hey i will definitely try your cream sauce as I didn’t have any gravy for this
January 30th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
This looks wonderful!
Thank you
January 31st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Looks so perfectly cooked.. loved the colour on it.. very nice!
Thank you seema, so wonderful to see u here
January 31st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Those winter veggies look great and nice pictures Padmaja.
I love the little pomegranates floating in that drink.. pretty.
Thank you my dear, it was an amazing lunch and even i was pretty impressed with the outcome
February 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
The veggies look so colourful and lovely…loved those drink pics
Thank you bhags!! they tasted even better
February 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
wow Padmaja, that sure looks way better than a peasant’s lunch!! man, I can so smell it from here:)
Mansi dear thank you so much
February 1st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
It looks like a dish out of a tv show. We dont eat this but looks great
Thank you and love our compliment
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:46 am
Looks delicious padmaja…u hav lot of patience girl…Good job…thanks for dropping by
Dhivya dear, patience n me are miles apart and i too try to meet up at half way u know!!
thank you
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:15 am
Wow Padmaja…that looks yummy. Its a bit beyond my skills … but, I have the pleasure of looking at your recipes and drooling, while I eat my plain fare :-)!
Sukanya thank u thank u. Do give it a try, it was quite simple, even i was too apprenhesive until i made it and so glad i did it you know!!
February 4th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Delicious..!!!
Thank you