Best 4 Spiced Guinea Fowl Recipes

POT-ROASTED GUINEA FOWL WITH SAGE, CELERY AND BLOOD ORANGE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• Remove any excess fat from the cavity of each guinea fowl. Wash thoroughly inside and out and pat dry with paper towels. Rub the cavity with a little salt. Cut off the two ends of the oranges, stand them on end and carefully slice off the skin (once you have removed one piece of skin you can see where the flesh meets the skin). Slice the oranges into five or six rounds each. Remove the tougher outside ribs of the celery until you reach the white, dense bulb and slice across thinly.
• Put in a bowl, mix in the thyme and a small pinch of salt and pepper, then stuff the cavity of each guinea fowl with this filling. Pull the skin at the front of each guinea fowl's cavity forward, to cover the filling, and tightly tie/truss up.
• Heat a thick-bottomed pan and add the olive oil and the guinea fowl, the skin of which has been rubbed in sea salt and pepper. Cook until lightly golden on all sides, then add the garlic, butter and sage and cook for 3-4 minutes until golden brown. Add the wine at intervals, enough to keep the pan slightly moist at all times. Place in the oven for 45 minutes, checking every 10-15 minutes and just topping up the wine as necessary. The guinea fowl will be roasted and partially steamed.
• When cooked, carefully remove from the oven and place upside down on a dish, allowing all the juices and moisture to relax back into the breast meat for at least 5 minutes. While your meat is resting, make the gravy.
• Remove all the fat from the roasting pan and place the pan on gentle heat. In the bottom of the pan will be your cooked, soft, sweet, whole garlic cloves and some gorgeous sticky stuff--when this gets hot, scoop out the stuffing from the guinea fowl cavity and add to the pan with about 2/3 cup of wine. As the wine boils and steams, scrape all the goodness with a spoon from the bottom of the pan into the liquor. When it has all dissolved, leave to simmer gently. Squash the cooked garlic out of their skins with a spoon (discard the skins); this will also thicken the gravy slightly, as well as give it flavor. Pour any of the juices that have drained out of the rested birds into the pan with the gravy, simmer and season to taste. Serve the guinea fowl with roast potatoes and any simply cooked green vegetable--spinach, kale, bok choy or broccoli.

ONE-POT ROAST GUINEA FOWL

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Toss the vegetables with the oil and some seasoning in a large flameproof roasting tin. Place the bird on top of the veg, smear with 1 tbsp butter and lay the rashers in a row over the breast. Season generously, then roast for 40 mins.
• Remove from the oven and give the veg a stir while adding the garlic and thyme. Pour 200ml stock and the wine over the veg and return to oven to roast for another 40 mins until the bird is cooked through and the juices run clear.
• Remove the bird, place on a serving plate, cover with foil to keep warm and leave to rest. Turn the oven up to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and roast the veg for a further 15 mins until tender.
• Remove the veg with a slotted spoon and transfer to the serving plate with the bird. Mix 2 tsp butter and flour in a small bowl to form a smooth paste. Place the roasting tin with all the cooking juices, plus any resting juices, on the hob. Whisk the paste and redcurrant jelly into the juices until dissolved, then add the remaining stock and extra seasoning, if you like. Bubble for a few mins until the sauce thickens. Slice and serve the guinea fowl, crisp bacon and the veg with the sauce on the side.

SPICED GUINEA FOWL

Steps:

• Prepare the sauce by combining all the ingredients in a food processor or blender.
• Put the guinea fowl skin side down in a baking dish and pour the sauce over.
• Cover the dish with plastic-wrap and leave in a cool place until you are ready to cook.
• You can do this as far ahead as the night before and refrigerate it.
• Pre-heat the oven to moderate.
• Discard the wrap and cover the dish with with a lid or foil.
• Cook in the center of the oven for 20 minutes.
• Remove the lid or foil, and turn the birds.
• Cook uncovered for a further 20 minutes, basting once or twice with the sauce.
• Transfer the birds to serving plates, season the sauce and spoon a little over each of the portions.
• Serve the rest seperately.
• This is good served with steamed rice, and it's a good way to cook pheasant or chicken quarters.

ROAST GUINEA FOWL WITH BRIE

Steps:

• Season fowl inside and out with pepper.
• Pre-heat the oven to hot.
• Melt the butter in a frying pan until sizzling, and lightly brown the birds on all sides.
• Remove from the pan and set aside.
• Mash the Brie with a fork, and mix with the lemon juice and marjoram.
• Halve the mix and place each half in the cavity of a bird.
• Tuck the wings under the birds, but don't close the cavity.
• Put the birds in a roasting dish, pour the pan juices over and cover loosely with foil.
• Roast in the center of the oven for 35-40 minutes.
• Remove the dish from the oven and halve the birds, discarding the spinal bones.
• Keep the birds warm.
• Stir the port into the pan juices, on the top of the stove and simmer for 2 or 3 minutes.
• Add the cream and stirring constantly, reheat without boiling until the sauce is smoothe and well blended.
• Taste and add the salt if necessary.
• Spoon the sauce over the birds and serve at once.