Name: Salt & pepper smoked quail with smacked cucumber
Yield: Serves 2-3
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100 g salt; 50 g Szechuan pepper; 3 whole quail; 1 garlic clove, peeled; 50 g MSG powder; 1 spring onion; 1 red chilli; 200 ml buttermilk; 300 ml groundnut oil; 200 g seasoned white flour; 50 ml soy sauce; 50 ml sesame oil; 50 ml sriracha; ½ cucumber; 50 ml Chinkiang black rice vinegar; 1 tbsp finely chopped coriander stalk

Preparation info

Serves
2-3

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Glorious Game

By Ben Tish

Published 2019

About

Crispy and well done or blood rare, it’s hard to mess up cooking quail: it’s delicious any way it comes. Quail fits in well with our whole animal ethos at Temper; better than chicken wings or thighs, and for me it’s much better than fried chicken anyway. I remember getting a big bowl of quail at St. John and being in heaven: this is my fried version with added salt and pepper seasoning. If you’re unsure about MSG, get sure! It’s essential in this dish and an amazing seasoning that we all ne