Pheasant Cacciatora with Olives

Fagiano alla Cacciatora con Olive

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Leaves from The Walnut Tree: Cooking of a Lifetime

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

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Ingredients

  • 2 hen pheasants, quartered
  • 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 6 tablespoons

Method

Cut the pheasants in 4 portions.

In a large cocotte, fry the finely chopped garlic in two tablespoons of olive oil, and reserve.

Fry the pheasant portions in the remaining oil until deep golden. Return the garlic and oil to the cocotte, and season the pheasants with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add the wine and vinegar plus the olives, half left whole, the rest chopped