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Roast English Partridge with Forcemeat Balls & Celeriac Pt 1

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Category: Seasonal

 Ingredients List

  • 4 Greyleg English partridge;
  • -properly hung
  • 4 Shallots; diced
  • 1 Carrot; diced
  • 1 Leek; diced
  • 150 ml Brown chicken or game stock
  • 150 ml Red wine
  • 1 Bouquet garni
  • 1 tb Dry Madeira
  • 3 Juniper berries; crushed (3
  • -to 4)
  • 8 sm Spri thyme
  • 50 g Unsalted butter plus a
  • -little extra
  • 250 g Spinach; wilted in a little
  • ; butter
  • Salt and ground black pepper

 Directions

FORCEMEAT BALLS
175 g Pork fillet; well trimmed
175 g Game or chicken livers
25 g Fresh white breadcrumbs
1 Shallot
1 tb Fresh thyme leaves
2 tb Chopped fresh parsley
1 tb Chopped fresh chives
1 Dessert apple; peeled, cored
-and
; diced
2 ts Plain flour
2 tb Olive oil
Salt and ground black pepper

CELERIAC PUREE
225 g Peeled potatoes
500 g Peeled celeriac
Grated nutmeg
50 g Unsalted butter
Salt and ground black pepper

BLUEBERRY COMPOTE
2 tb Olive oil
500 g Small shallots or pickling
-onions
1 tb White wine vinegar
1 tb Dry sherry
1 ts Caster sugar
2 1/2 Cm root ginger; peeled and
-grated
2 tb Apple or crab apple jelly
Zest from 1 large orange;
-blanched
125 g Fresh blueberries

To make the compote, heat the oil in a pan, add the shallots or onions and
cook until lightly coloured. Add the wine vinegar, sherry, sugar and
ginger, shaking the pan. Continue cooking for 4-5 minutes, until almost
tender. Add the jelly and orange zest and cook through. Add the blueberries
at the last moment - do not allow to cook - and serve immediately.

To make the forcemeat, chop the pork, livers, breadcrumbs, shallot and
seasoning very finely in a food processor. Stir in the herbs and diced
apple. Fry a small piece of forcemeat in a pan, taste and adjust seasoning.
Form into walnut-sized balls and roll in the flour. Just before serving,
heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the balls until golden.

Remove the partridge legs at the hip join. Place the legs in a casserole or
roasting tin, add the diced vegetables, stock, red wine, bouquet garni,
Madeira and juniper berries. Bring to the boil, then place in a preheated
oven at 180C/350F/gas 4 for 45 minutes until the skin is glossy and the
legs tender. Keep warm until ready to serve.

Make an incision each side of the breast bones and tuck in little sprigs of
fresh thyme. Lift the skin away from the breast and smear a little unsalted
butter under the skin. Season.

Heat the remaining butter in a heavy-based pan and sear the breasts on both
sides, then sit them on their sides in a roasting tin. Place in a preheated
oven at 220C/425F/gas 7 for 5-6 minutes. Turn over and continue roasting
for a further 5 minutes. Remove and rest in a warm place for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile cook the potatoes with two-thirds of the celeriac. Mash, beat in
the nutmeg and half the butter and check the seasoning. Form into small
cakes and fry in the remaining butter until crusty and golden. Keep hot.

Cut the remaining celeriac into fine julienne strips. Stir-fry quickly in
butter until crisp. Season.

Strain the cooking liquid from the legs, reduce by half and whisk in a
little butter. Remove the breasts from the carcasses.

Place the legs and forcemeat balls on heated dinner plates. Arrange the

continued in part 2

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