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GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

This is my recipe for a really wild gourmet dish - Pigeon Roulade. It is made using the freshest ingredients possible.

Ingredients:
8 pigeon breasts (two breast portions per person)
A good bunch of very fresh wild garlic leaves
A good knob of soft butter
Salt and pepper to taste.

Firstly, butterfly joint the pigeon breasts so that you have a long thin piece of breast meat.

Finely chop the wild garlic.

Mix the chopped wild garlic into a good knob of soft butter. Add a little salt and pepper to taste.

Spread the garlicky butter onto the pigeon.

Roll the pigeon breasts gently and evenly.

Wrap the rolled pigeon in some whole garlic leaves. It helps if you break the spine of the leaf to make it roll easier.

Wrap in tin foil and crimp the edges to seal all the juices in. Here's one I did earlier.

Pop into a pre-heated oven at 180c for fifteen to twenty minutes and serve hot with fresh salad or whatever takes your fancy.

It's as easy as that!! Darn tasty as well!!

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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

That look sreally nice

Angel · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

For some reason I couldnt eat pigeon, I have never had it so I cant really knock it but I just cant

GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

Pigeon has the texture of a good piece of beef with the subtle flavour of liver. The pigeon shown in the photo is of a wild wood pigeon that has a varied diet and not the chimney pot urban birds that live of chips. :D
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Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

for the size of the bird dont you find it a little fiddley?

Block67 · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

:cry: :cry: :cry: - I keep and breed the damn things! :lol:
- I couldn't eat one!!!(or pheasants!)

kathy27 · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject:

Yeah but with the amount you have, we wouldn't need to buy any meat for a year or two!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

Pheasant is one of the best eating birds going! Even free range chicken nowadays is so bland that you could just as well eat the packaging it came from and not find the taste that dissimilar.
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Block67 · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

:oops: Pheasant is well nice GTB, but I keep them!(still, could breed them and do a Gordon Ramsay!). A butcher friend of mine showed me how to prep one in less than two minutes using nothing other than a pair of scissors. Fascinating to watch, but a bit gross! :lol: