Malvani partridge

Name: Malvani partridge
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 350 g Brussels sprout tops, well rinsed; 3 tbsps olive oil; 40 g butter; 1 tbsp redcurrant jelly; 15 dried red chillies, use fewer if you want a milder mix; 8 black peppercorns; 2 black cardamom pods; 8 cm piece of cassia bark or cinnamon stick; 8 cm piece of cassia bark or cinnamon stick; 2 tbsps coriander seeds; 2 tsps fennel seeds; 2 green cardamom pods; 1 star anise; ½ tsp black mustard seeds; ½ tsp freshly ground nutmeg; 1 tsp caraway seeds; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 4-5 tbsps milk, as needed; 400 g floury potatoes, peeled and cut into 5mm cubes; ¼ tsp asafoetida; ½ tsp turmeric; ½ tsp ground coriander; 1½ tsps sunflower oil; 15 g butter; 4 tbsps double cream; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced; 1 litre chicken stock; finely grated zest and juice of ½ lemon; ¼ tsp ground turmeric; 70 g redcurrants, plus extra to garnish

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Glorious Game

By Ben Tish

Published 2019

About

At the beginning of each autumn we cheer the arrival of game, and partridge appears pretty quickly in numerous incarnations on my menus. These small birds are fantastic roasted with bacon rashers covering the breasts to keep the tenderness.

Ingredients

Malvani spice powder

(Makes about 4 tablespoons)
15 dried red chillies, use fewer if you want a milder mix
8 cm piec

Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
Autumn
Gluten-free

Method

For the Malvani spice powder, toast the whole spices individually in a dry frying pan over a medium heat until aromatic. Immediately tip out of the pan into a spice grinder. Add the ground nutmeg, turmeric and asafoetida, and grind into a fine powder. Sift through a fine sieve. Store in an airtight container in a dark cupboard for up to 1 month.

For the lemon mash, cook the potatoes in