Name: Roast Quail with Sage (Quaglie Arrosto con Salvia)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 8 plump quails; lemon wedges; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 100 g/3½ oz butter; 8 sprigs sage; 8 slices streaky bacon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

About

Ingredients

8 plump quails
100 g/3½ oz butter
8

Method

Salt and pepper the quails, stuff each one with a sprig of sage and put a little butter inside each cavity. Spread the rest of the butter on the breasts and legs of the birds. Wrap the streaky bacon around each bird making sure the thighs of the bird are covered. Place the quails in a roasting tin an