Barbara Kafka

A Single Squab for the Holidays

Preparation info
  • Serves

    1

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Intolerant Gourmet
The Intolerant Gourmet

By Barbara Kafka

Published 2011

  • About

If you’re alone at Thanksgiving or anytime, I suggest roasting a squab or a Cornish hen. Buy a can of cranberry sauce. Stick a sweet potato, its skin pricked with a fork, on a double sheet of paper towel in the microwave for 12 minutes. It will be done just before the squab. You’re done. You can buy a tart.

Ingredients

  • 1 medium squab (11 to 12 ounces)
  • 1 tablespoon anise seeds

Method

Heat the oven to 500°F with a rack on the second level from the bottom.

Put the bird in the smallest roasting pan available or on a pie plate. Put the anise seeds in the cavity. Place in the oven breast up, legs to the rear. Roast for 16 to 17 minutes. Move to a plate. Put the pan on the stove over high heat and bring to a boil with the stock and salt and pepper to taste. Scrape the pan