How To Cook Pheasant Breasts

Get back in the game with this fabulous pheasant dish! In this recipe Chef Paul Mulvenna-Pegrum cooks juicy pheasant breasts with a fruity apple and mushroom compote. Enlarge

How To Cook Pheasant Breasts

Get back in the game with this fabulous pheasant dish! In this recipe Chef Paul Mulvenna-Pegrum cooks juicy pheasant breasts with a fruity apple and mushroom compote.

Prep:
5m
Cook:
10m
Total:
15m
Serves:
2

Ingredients

  • 2 pheasant breasts
  • 150 g red onion, cut into chunks
  • 6 dried wild forest mushrooms, soaked
  • rosemary
  • thyme
  • 120 ml red wine
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 200 ml veal jus
  • 150 g green apple, peeled and chopped
  • 50 g baby spinach
  • oil
  • 1 tsp butter

Method

Heat a little oil and the butter in a pan, then add half an onion cut into chunks, your mushrooms and a little rosemary and thyme.

Season the pheasant breasts with salt and pepper and some herbs. Seal both sides of the pheasant in a frying pan with a little oil in it.

Add the red wine, sugar and veal jus to the vegetables and let it reduce.

Add your apple chunks and pheasant to the compote, cook a little, then remove the meat to rest.

Add the spinach to the compote and let it wilt, the serve.