Pheasant With Cabernet Sauce Food

PLEASANT PHEASANT

Steps:

• Marinate the pheasant breasts over night (or for as long as possible) in your favorite marinade, or mix together the soy sauce, garlic, onion, honey and vinegar for a yummy asian-inspired marinade.
• Remove pheasants from marinade, and coat in flour. We do not rinse off marinade, or allow to drip off, so that the flour makes a nice coating on the pheasant.
• Heat a frying pan with butter, and place coated pheasant in pan.
• Allow to brown on each side, then add 1/4 cup of chicken broth, or enough to create some liquid on the bottom. Add cilantro.
• Cover and allow pheasant to cook for 4-6 minutes per side, until cooked through. Don't let all the chicken broth cook off, or it could burn. Add more if necessary.
• Once done, take pheasant out of pan, and add chicken broth, a little at a time, scraping the bottom of the pan to create a gravy.
• Serve with rice, or noodles.
• Variations:
• instead of chicken broth, use chicken noodle soup and some water! Or,
• use your favorite marinate. Or,
• after browning, and adding liquid (or soup with some water), put it in a 350 degree oven for 20-30 minutes - then proceed as directed.

GRILLED PHEASANT WITH BARBECUE SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat grill for medium-high heat.
• Sprinkle pheasant pieces with paprika, salt, and black pepper.
• Brush with melted butter and place on grill rack.
• Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, turning occasionally. Baste with barbecue sauce frequently throughout the cooking process.
• Reduce heat to medium and cook for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until the internal temperature of the pheasant reaches 165 F.
• Remove from heat and let rest for 5 minutes.
• Then carve and serve with your favorite sides.
• Enjoy!

PHEASANT IN WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter or margarine in a heat-proof Dutch oven.
• When hot, sauté the pheasant gently all over until it's golden brown.
• Remove the bird.
• Add flour, stock and wine, blend smoothly.
• Bring to a boil and add seasoning.
• Return bird to the Dutch oven and cover.
• Cook in preheated 350 degree oven, turning bird while cooking, for 35 to 40 minutes, or until bird is tender.

PHEASANT WITH CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle cavity of pheasant with 1/8 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Place pheasant on a rack in shallow roasting pan. Drizzle with butter; sprinkle with remaining salt and pepper. Cover and bake at 325° for 45 minutes. Uncover; bake 40-60 minutes longer or until a thermometer reads 180°, basting with pan juices frequently., Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, combine the cranberries, sugar, orange juice and cinnamon. Cook over medium heat for 10-12 minutes or until the berries begin to pop, stirring frequently. Stir in the orange zest. Simmer 5 minutes longer. Cover pheasant with foil and let stand for 10 minutes before carving. Serve sauce with pheasant.

PHEASANT IN CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Place pheasant in an ungreased 11x7-in. baking dish. Combine the next eight ingredients; pour over pheasant. Sprinkle generously with paprika. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 1-1/2 hours until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°, basting occasionally. Sprinkle again with paprika before serving.

PHEASANT WITH CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Remove pheasant wings, stomachs and hearts, rinse thoroughly and place into a saucepan. Add crushed juniper berries (reserve some), lemon zest, wine and 1/8 liter of water (approximately 1/2 cup) and season with salt.
• Cover and cook for about 45 minutes on low heat. Strain broth through a sieve and return to the pan, simmer down until just a few spoonfuls left.
• Rinse and pat dry pheasants. Season with salt and pepper. Wrap each pheasant with a slice of bacon and tie with kitchen string. Heat butter in a pan and brown pheasants on all sides. Cover pan and finish cooking in preheated oven at 220°C (approximately 425°F) for about 40 minutes or until golden brown, basitng with cooking juice often.
• Remove bacon from the birds and and let pheasants brown for 10 minutes more, uncovered. Remove pheasants from the pan and keep warm wrapped in foil.
• Simmer down cooking sauce slightly. Crush remaining juniper berries in a mortar and add to the sauce. Add pheasant broth and cream, simmer down to creamy sauce, add chopped walnuts. Arrange pheasants on preheated plates and serve with the sauce.

PHEASANT WITH CRANBERRY HONEY

Steps:

• Render bacon in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add pheasant parts and sear on all sides, then add red wine and onions. Sprinkle cracked pepper, bay leaves, tarragon, salt and mint over pheasant parts. Reduce heat to low and cover pot. Cook until tender and juices run clear (no longer pink), about 25 minutes. Remove pheasant carefully to a utility platter, cover and set aside to keep warm. Transfer liquids from pot to a heat resistant glass container (such as a 2 or 3 cup measuring vessel) and allow the layer of fat to rise to the top. Spoon or pour off most of the fat and return the rest of the juices, herbs, bacon and onions to the pot over medium heat. Add cranberries to the sauce and cook until the berries pop to make a rustic sauce. Remove from heat, discard bay leaves, and whisk in honey and sour cream.
• Arrange pheasant on serving dish, spoon sauce over, and garnish with mint.

CRANBERRY PHEASANT

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Arrange the pheasant pieces in a lightly greased shallow baking dish. In a medium bowl, stir together the onion soup mix, cranberry sauce and Catalina dressing. Pour the sauce over the pheasant. Cover the dish with a lid or aluminum foil.
• Bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven, until meat comes easily off the bone.

PHEASANT IN CREAMY MARSALA SAUCE

Steps:

• Slice the mushrooms and parsley. Set aside.
• Rinse pheasant breasts (as needed) and pat dry. Lay them out on a plate.
• In a large shallow bowl or 8x8 baking dish whisk together the flour, salt and pepper. Set aside.
• Melt the oil and butter In a heavy skillet on medium heat.
• Dredge the pheasant breasts in flour mix. shake them off and lay in heated oil mixture.
• Brown the breasts a few minutes and turn them to brown on other side. (do not cook them through).
• Reduce pan heat to simmer.
• Remove the browned breasts to a plate. Cover with foil and set aside.
• Pour the sliced mushrroms Into the simmering oil/butter. NOTE: if your butter is too dark or burned. Wipe out the pan, add more oil and butter and reheat before adding mushrooms.
• Brown the mushrooms in oil and butter bout 5 minutes stirring often until excess moisture evaproates and mushrooms are browned.
• Add Marsala. Deglaze and simmer about 5 minutes until it is reduced about 30%.
• Add the broth and stir in the heavy cream slowly stirring constantly.
• Simmer until sauce is well mixed. Add the pheasant breasts back into the pan.
• Spoon the sauce over the breasts and sprinkle the parsley on top.
• Cover and simmer until breasts are cooked through ( about Five minutes or so)
• Remove cooked breasts to serving plate. Spoon the mushroom Marsala on top of the breasts. Serve.

EASY CABERNET SAUCE FOR BEEF OR LAMB

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat the olive oil in a small saucepan or saucier over medium heat; add onions, and cook for 1 minute. Blend in flour and pepper. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
• Gradually stir in cabernet and beef stock. Let the mixture simmer briskly until reduced by about half, stirring occasionally.
• Add heavy cream and butter; continue simmering until reduced down to a nicely thickened sauce. Taste, and add a little salt, if needed.
• Stir in Gravy Master or other browning sauce, a few drops at a time, until you have the sauce as dark in color as you like.
• Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve, if desired. Serve with roast beef, steak, venison, or lamb.
• Serve and enjoy.

PHEASANT WITH CABERNET SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in large casserole or heavy cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pheasant pieces skin side down. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the meat is golden brown. Add the shallots, carrots, celery, mushrooms, pearl onions, garlic, juniper berries and cloves. Cook, stirring, until the vegetables are wilted, about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Drain the fat and add the butter and flour; stir and blend well. Pour the Cognac over the pheasant pieces and let it ignite.
• Add the wine, chicken broth and bouquet garni. Stir and blend well. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer about 30 minutes, or until tender. Remove the bouquet garni and serve hot.

PHEASANT BRAISED WITH LEEKS, CIDER & APPLES

Steps:

• For the pickled apples, put the salt, sugar, vinegar and berries in a small pan and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, add the apple cubes and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed, high-sided casserole and season the pheasant joints with salt. Brown them all over, rendering out some of the yellow fat into the pan. Remove to a plate and season with pepper. Add the leeks, bacon and thyme to the pan along with a pinch of salt and a good grind of black pepper, and fry until the leeks have softened - about 8 mins. Add the apple slices and cook until starting to colour on both sides.
• Spoon in the brandy and cook until evaporated, add the cider and simmer for a few more mins to cook off the alcohol. Pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Reduce to a gentle simmer and add the pheasant joints back to the pan, covering with a circle of baking parchment.
• After 15 mins, remove the breasts from the pan to a plate and return the circle of baking parchment to the pan. Cook gently for a further 20 mins, then remove all the pheasant pieces from the pan to a plate and turn the heat up to reduce the sauce. Boil hard for a few min until reduced, then stir in the cream and mace and turn off the heat. Return the pheasant pieces to the sauce - the residual heat will warm it perfectly.
• Divide the pheasant between plates and spoon over the sauce. Garnish with the pickled apples and hazelnuts. Serve with our celeriac colcannon.