Pigeon Casserole in Red Wine Sauce
This comes from cookitsimply.com. The sauce is absolutely gorgeous! I added a dash of lemon juice before cooking this in a tagine, in the oven (2+ hours @ 325f) - perfect! The recipe says to cook it in a pan on the hob so feel free to do it that way!
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INGREDIENTS
Nutrition- 4
- 1
- 4pigeons or 2 wood pigeons
- 4
- 4
- 1
- 2teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1⁄4teaspoon dried thyme
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1ounce flour
- 300ml meat stock
- 100ml red wine
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DIRECTIONS
- Fry the diced bacon for 2 minutes, add the butter (I used 1oz of butter and a dash of olive oil) and the pigeons and brown quickly on all sides.
- Remove and add the chopped vegetables, herbs, salt, freshly ground pepper and flour. Mix well.
- Replace the birds, pour on the stock and the wine, bring to the boil and simmer very gently for 1 1/2 hours, until the birds are tender.
- Serve with red currant jelly.
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