Poultry and Game Birds

Poultry – which includes chickens, turkeys, ducklings, ducks and geese – offers enormous scope in the kitchen and is becoming increasingly popular. Chicken and turkey are also the most economical of meats, and are ideal for entertaining because you can transform them into almost any type and character of dish. Chicken is a wonderful vehicle for flavours, sauces and enhancing ingredients; this applies particularly to frozen birds as they often need added taste and texture. Fresh free-range birds have enough flavour, as a result of their more varied diet and roaming lifestyle, to be cooked simply. This applies to free-range turkeys just as much as to chickens.