How to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Blueberry glazed pigeon breast
by Leonard Boyd
Blueberry glazed pigeon breast
Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, blueberry glazed pigeon breast. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook blueberry glazed pigeon breast using 25 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Blueberry glazed pigeon breast:
Make ready 2 whole pigeons
Prepare for the glaze
Make ready 200 g blueberries
Take 3-10 tbsp dark brown sugar
Take 1-3 tsp lemon juice
Prepare 2 tbsp unsalted butter
Get for the salad
Take 1/2 bulb fennel
Take 1 apple (Granny smith works really well)
Prepare 1/2 pear
Take 2 tsp finely chopped lemon rind
Prepare 1-3 tsp lemon juice
Make ready 1 tbsp fennel seeds
Take for the jus
Get 1 pigeon carcass
Get Up to 4 bones from a chicken thigh (optional)
Take 1 onion
Prepare 3 carrots
Get 1 celery stick
Prepare 1/2 bulb garlic
Take 3 sprigs rosemary
Take 3 sprigs thyme
Take 1 tbsp tomato purée
Take 1 tbsp butter
Get to taste Salt and pepper
Steps to make Blueberry glazed pigeon breast:
First, debreast the pigeon by pushing a knife against the backbone of the pigeon and cutting down until the breast comes free.
Put the carcass, chicken thighs, onion, celery, carrots and garlic on a baking tray, coat it all in tomato purée and roast at 180C until browned.
Once the bones are roasted nicely, put them in a pan with the rosemary anf thyme and cover wity water. Simmer for 2 - 4 hours, skimming off impurities and fat every 20 - 30 minutes.
Strain the stock through a sieve with a muslin cloth and return to the heat, reduce until the stock resembles a honey consistency, add the butter and stir in quickly to give a nice, rich shine and season to taste.
To make the glaze, put the blueberries in a pan and cover with water, boil and crush with a wooden spoon. Strain through a sieve once the water has taken on a deep colour and return the juices to a medium heat. Season with dark brown sugar and lemon juice to get a strong blueberry flavour with a nice amount of sweetness (the salad compliments the sweet blueberry glaze).
Reduce the glaze until it has a thick, syrup like consistency and mix in the butter, enriching the glaze and giving a wonderful shine.
Peel the apple (save the peelings for something else) and Rome the green frill from the top of the fennel (save the frill for a garnish). Julienne the apple, fennel and pear. Toss together with the finely chopped lemon rind, lemon juice and fennel seeds.
Heat up a frying pan until it's smoking, add a tsp of butter and roll it around the pan. Place the pigeon breast in the pan, skin side down and cook for 1 - 2 minutes until a crust has forned. Flip over and cook until the side is browned.
The pigeon can be served rare as it's a red meat, I cook to medium rare. As the breasts rest, coat them in the blueberry glaze and leave for a further 5 minutes.
Place a nice mound of the salad off-centre on the plate, slice the pigeon and put it on top with the fennel frill on top to garnish and drizzle the jus in a decirative swoosh. Zest a lemon over the whole dish and place some halved blueberries as you find attractive.
Serve up and enjoy!
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