Pheasants in Wine Sauce with Bucatini
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Katerina
- ½ bottle of semi-sweet Sherry wine
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 onion, sliced
- 10 all spice balls
- 1 tbsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- ½ tsp cardamom
- 2 bay leaves
- 600 gr. /21 oz. tomato juice
- 4 onions, cut in 4
- 6 carrots, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, cut in two
- 1 ¾ cup muscatel or any sweet red wine you have
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 2 tbsp balsamico
- 2 tbsp honey
- ½ tsp ginger
- ¼ tsp cardamom
- 500 gr. /18 oz. fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 2 bay leaves
- 100 gr. /3.5 oz. dried cranberries
- 100 gr. /3.5 oz. dried nuts of different types
- 1 cup of hot water
- Twenty four hours before cooking the birds, put all the ingredients of the marinade in a non-reactive bowl along with the birds.
- Put the birds in the fridge and let them stay overnight.
- Before cooking, take the birds out of the fridge and the marinade.
- Pat them dry.
- In a sauté pan put 3 tbsp of margarine in medium high heat.
- Sauté the pheasant pieces in batches.
- Put the sautéed pieces in a vessel for the oven.
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F.
- While the oven is preheated, make the sauce.
- Take a sauté pan.
- Pour 3 tbsp of olive oil and put it in medium-high heat.
- Add the onions and mushrooms and sauté for five minutes.
- Add the garlic and continue to sauté for couple of minutes.
- Pour the tomato, the carrots, the balsamico, the honey, the ¾ cup of wine and all the herbs and spices except the cranberries and the nuts and stir.
- Let boil in medium heat for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Pour the tomato sauce and the hot water over the birds and put them in the oven.
- Bake for an hour at this temperature and then lower to 175°/350°F.
- You bake at this temperature for another one hour.
- Thirty minutes before the end throw the cranberries, the dried nuts and the 1 cup of wine.
- I served them with thick macaroni, bucatoni, as we usually do in Greece, but you can accompany it with mashed potatoes or rice.
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/pheasants-in-wine-sauce-with-bucatoni/
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