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Spiced Crispy Pigeon Pie

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

  • About

This delectable party pie can be made well in advance and then served hot, with just a mixed salad and good bread. The full flavour of pigeon goes beautifully with the fresh ginger and spring onion and the paper-thin fillo or strudel pastry makes it something very special.

Ingredients

  • 8 wood pigeons
  • 2 sticks of cinnamon, broken into 1-inch (2.5 cm) pieces
  • 2 teaspoons (

Method

Put the pigeons in a large, heavy saucepan. Intersperse the broken sticks of cinnamon and sprinkle on the paprika and salt and pepper. Add the water. Cover the pan and bring to the boil; then turn down the heat and simmer very gently for about 2 hours until the pigeons are tender. When the pigeons are cool enough to handle, cut and pick all the flesh off them (cutting up any large pieces) and p

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