Smoked Quail

Name: Smoked Quail
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons dark soy sauce; 1 tablespoons honey; 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce or tomato sauce; 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce or tomato sauce; 2 tablespoons groundnut oil; 4 quail; 1 tablespoon cooking wine or sherry; 2 tablespoons China tea; 4-6 spring onions carved into flowers; watercress; 2 cloves star anise; ½ teaspoon five-spice powder; 1 clove crushed garlic; 1 tablespoon cooking wine or sherry

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Game Cookery

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1989

About

This unusual recipe is from the exceptionally attractive cookbook Chinese Delights by Lisa Kinsman with photographs by Christine Hanscomb (1982).

Ingredients

4 quail
2 tablespoons groundnut oil

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

To make the spring-onion flowers, cut off the root then cut off the green part leaving a whole spring onion 7.5 cm (5 inches) long. Crisscross both ends with a sharp knife leaving 2.5 cm (1 inch) uncut in the centre. Submerge in iced water and the ends will curl outwards. Keep in cold water until required.

Skin and clean the quail. Mix marinade ingredients, rub over quail and leave in a