Name: Pot-roasted pheasant
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 2 pheasants, tied (ask your butcher to do this) -; 1 tbsp plain flour, well seasoned -; 50ml vegetable oil -; 2 rashers smoked streaky bacon, thinly sliced -; 8 shallots, peeled and left whole -; 2 carrots, peeled and quartered lengthways -; 2 parsnips, peeled and quartered lengthways -; 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed -; 1 thyme sprig -; 1 marjoram sprig -; 2 bay leaves -; 100ml marsala or sweet sherry -; 50ml red wine -; 200ml chicken stock -; 1 tsp caster sugar -; bread sauce, to serve -

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25 min.

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Ingredients for - Pot-roasted pheasant

1. 2 pheasants, tied (ask your butcher to do this) -

2. 1 tbsp plain flour, well seasoned -

3. 50ml vegetable oil -

4. 2 rashers smoked streaky bacon, thinly sliced -

5. 8 shallots, peeled and left whole -

6. 2 carrots, peeled and quartered lengthways -

7. 2 parsnips, peeled and quartered lengthways -

8. 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed -

9. 1 thyme sprig -

10. 1 marjoram sprig -

11. 2 bay leaves -

12. 100ml marsala or sweet sherry -

13. 50ml red wine -

14. 200ml chicken stock -

15. 1 tsp caster sugar -

16. bread sauce, to serve -

How to cook deliciously - Pot-roasted pheasant

1. Stage

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Dust the pheasants with the flour, then heat the oil in a large flameproof dish. Brown the pheasants all over, then remove from the dish.

2. Stage

In the same dish, fry the bacon, vegetables, garlic and herbs with 1 tbsp of the dusting flour for 5 mins, until the vegetables start to colour. Put the pheasants and any resting juices back in the dish, pour on the Marsala, wine and stock, add the sugar, then cover and cook for 1 hr 30 mins - 1 hr 50 mins or until the leg meat easily comes away from the bone. Serve with bread sauce.