Pink Pigeon Breasts with Chicory and Kumquats

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Floyd on Fire

By Keith Floyd

Published 1986

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Ingredients

  • Breasts of 4 pigeons (save the legs and carcasses in your deep freeze for a game pie)
  • Bigarade marinade

Method

Marinate the pigeon breasts for 1 hour.

While the breasts are marinating, simmer the kumquats in red wine and sugar for 10 minutes.

Wrap the pigeon breasts in two chicory leaves and then in a slice of speck.

Pour the marinade, strained, and the juice from the cooked kumquats into a drip tray.

Thread the wrapped breasts, the smoked bacon cubes and the kumquats ont