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🍽️ Roasted Pheasant with Pear Sauce

1196 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 2 Pheasants (approx. 800 g each)
• Salt
• Pepper (from the mill)
• 1 Handful Tarragon
• 60 g Butter
• 150 ml dry white wine
• 1 Onion
• 1 tbsp Butter
• 1 tbsp Flour
• 200 ml dry white wine
• 80 g Roquefort
• 150 ml Whipping cream
• Salt
• Pepper (from the mill)
• 1 Pear
• Tarragon (for garnish)

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius using the top and bottom heat setting.
2. 2. Rinse the pheasants briefly under running water. Then pat them completely dry with a kitchen towel.
3. 3. Season the inside of the pheasants with salt and pepper. Fill the cavity with the rinsed tarragon. Close the opening with toothpicks.
4. 4. Place the pheasants breast-side up in a roasting pan.
5. 5. Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Season the melted butter with salt and pepper.
6. 6. Brush the pheasants with the seasoned butter.
7. 7. Roast the pheasants in the oven for about 40 minutes.
8. 8. Brush the pheasants with the butter repeatedly during roasting.
9. 9. Add a little wine if necessary to prevent the meat from drying out.
10. 10. Peel the onion and dice it finely.
11. 11. Sweat the onion cubes in a hot pot with butter until translucent.
12. 12. Stir the flour into the onions.
13. 13. Deglaze the mixture with wine.
14. 14. Let the sauce simmer for a few minutes.
15. 15. Crumble the cheese into the sauce while stirring.
16. 16. Add the cream and stir.
17. 17. Let the sauce simmer until creamy for a few more minutes.
18. 18. Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste.
19. 19. Peel the pear.
20. 20. Cut the pear into quarters.
21. 21. Remove the core from the pear quarters.
22. 22. Cut the pear quarters into thin slices.
23. 23. Let the pear slices warm up in the hot sauce.
24. 24. Remove the pheasants from the oven.
25. 25. Cut the pheasants into quarters.
26. 26. Arrange two pieces of pheasant on deep plates.
27. 27. Pour the pear sauce over the meat.
28. 28. Garnish the dish with tarragon and serve.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 1196
• Protein: 125 g · Fett/Fat: 67 g · Carbs: 10 g