Pheasant With Oregano Cream Sauce Food

PHEASANT WITH OREGANO CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°. Cut each pheasant in half along backbone and breastbone from tail to neck with kitchen scissors. Mix flour, seasoned salt and pepper in shallow bowl. Coat pheasant generously with flour mixture. Reserve remaining flour mixture.
• Heat oil in 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Cook pheasants in oil 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until well browned. Place in ungreased rectangular pan, 13x 9 x 2 inches, or in shallow roasting pan. Top and surround pheasants with mushrooms and carrots.
• Melt butter in 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add enough additional flour to remaining flour mixture to make 2 tablespoons. Stir flour mixture into butter. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly; remove from heat. Gradually stir in half-and-half and broth. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in sherry and oregano. Pour evenly over pheasants.
• Bake uncovered 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes, spooning sauce in pan over pheasants once, until pheasants are tender and juice is no longer pink when centers of thickest pieces are cut. Remove pheasants from pan with slotted spoon. Stir sauce until smooth. Serve sauce with pheasants.

CREAMED PHEASANT

Steps:

• Fry pheasant in oil until brown.
• Take out of pan.
• To pan add flour and bouillon dissolved in 1/2 cup water.
• Add soup, sour cream, half-and-half, 1 cup water, and salt and pepper.
• Add pheasant and bake at 350° until pheasant is tender.

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.

BREAST OF PHEASANT WITH SOUR-CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle the breasts with salt, pepper and paprika.
• Melt the butter in a heavy nonstick skillet large enough to hold the pheasant breasts in one layer. Add the breasts and cook over medium-high heat for 3 minutes or until they are lightly browned. Turn the breasts and cook for 3 minutes more. Add the onions and thyme. Stir and cook until the onions are wilted. Add the wine to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom of the pan. Continute cooking until most of the wine evaporates.
• Add the heavy cream and cook until the liquid is reduced by half. Add the sour cream, blend well and bring to a boil, stirring until smooth. Taste and adjust the seasonings and serve very hot.

PHEASANT IN ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• Wash pheasant and pat dry.
• Sprinkle on both sides with paprika.
• Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in a skillet and cook pheasant on both sides till browned.
• Add more butter if needed.
• Mix water and bouillon and pour over pheasant.
• Lower heat and cover and simmer for thirty minutes until tender.
• Add water if needed and turn meat several times.
• Combine remaining ingredients.
• Let liquid on pheasant cook away and then baste orange sauce over the meat.
• Simmer uncovered and baste frequently for 10-15 minutes.
• Serves 2. Great served with rice.

PHEASANT WITH BACON AND SOUR CREAM

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to moderate.
• Carefully loosen the skin over the breasts of the pheasants and insert a piece of bacon under the skin over each breast.
• Pull the skin back over the breasts, and brush the birds liberally with the melted butter.
• Fold the wings under the body of the birds, tie the legs together loosely, and place the birds in a casserole dish.
• Roast, uncovered in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes, until the birds begin to brown.
• Pour the sour cream over the birds and season with salt and pepper.
• Cover and cook for 40 to 55 minutes.
• Transfer the birds to a heated serving platter and keep hot.
• Stir the cream into the pan juices, on top of the stove.
• Simmer gently until the sauce has thickened, adjust the seasoning, and serve with the pheasants.