Name: Vineyard Thrushes Cooked with Olives (Grives de vigne confites aux olives)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h 30 min
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon cognac; 50 g (1¾ oz) flour; 10 black peppercorns; 1 sprig of thyme; 2 tablespoons olive oil; salt, pepper; 3 juniper berries; 2 cloves of garlic; 100 g (3½ oz) medium-sized black Niçoise olives; 100 g (3½ oz) pork belly fat cut into little strips (lardons)

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
4 hr 30

Appears in

Cuisine of the Sun

By Roger Vergé

Published 1979

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Ingredients

6 plucked thrushes, with their heads, which are, for true connoisseurs of this bird, the best part. Gut the birds or not according to taste. Personally I prefer not to
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