Festive Pheasants

Preparation info
  • Serves

    16-18

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

  • About

Here is a delectable dish for a big dinner or Christmas lunch party. If possible try to seat everyone: food is so much more enjoyable when you don’t have to stand balancing your plate precariously, unable to concentrate properly either on eating or taking. In this recipe, which has a mild Anglo-Indian flavour, pheasant joints are marinated with yogurt and spices to a mouthwatering tenderness. The creamy, aromatic sauce goes perfectly with a large bowl of Indian basmati rice. Other than that