Poacher’s Pheasant

Fagiano del Bracconiere

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild: 120 Fresh Recipes for Wild Food from Land and Sea

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2001

  • About

I always imagine poachers to be good cooks, and this is the way I would cook a pheasant if I were a poacher!

Ingredients

  • a brace of large pheasants, prepared for cooking
  • 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 large onion

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.

Brown the pheasants on all sides in the oil in a large cast-iron casserole. Quarter the birds, and cut the leg and thigh pieces in half.

Fry the onion and speck for a few minutes in the same oil, then add the cloves, juniper berrie