Pheasant With Champagne-Grapefruit Sauce Recipe - Cooking Index
Pheasant With Champagne-Grapefruit Sauce Recipe - Cooking Index
To the less adventurous, a recipe with "Champagne-Grapefruit Sauce" might seem a bit too, wellUCalifornian. I have enough trouble trying to convince people in the southern U.S. states that we have ducks in California, lots of them. Some people think that we surf to work, stopping by a movie star's home for a quick espresso. Well, we're a little short on ocean and Hollywood types in northern central California, but we do have champagne, excuse me, "sparkling wine", and grapefruit. I'm sure you've heard of a Mimosa, the champagne and orange juice concoction. They taste pretty good, yes?
Courses: Main Course| 8 | Pheasant breast halves - preferably de-boned, | |
| And with skin intact | ||
| Lawry's Seasoned Salt - to taste | ||
| Lawry's Seasoned Pepper - to taste | ||
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Olive oil |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Butter |
| 2 | Garlic cloves - minced | |
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Dry sparkling wine |
| Sauce | ||
| 1 | Dry sparkling wine | |
| = (reserve 1/4 cup for above) | ||
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Shallots - minced |
| = (or white part of green onion) | ||
| 1 | Lemon - juice only | |
| 1 | Grapefruit - segmented, and (large) | |
| Membranes removed | ||
| 4 tablespoons | 60ml | Chilled butter |
| Salt - to taste | ||
| Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste |
Prepare sauce. In a medium saucepan, add first three sauce ingredients and reduce liquid to 1/2 cup over medium-high heat. Remove shallots. Add grapefruit segments and cook for 5 minutes. Allow mixture to cool, then transfer to a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Return to saucepan and heat sauce to warm. Just before serving, whisk in cold butter, a little at a time, until melted.
To prepare pheasant breasts, first season with salt and pepper. Heat oil and butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Brown pheasant lightly on both sides. Add garlic and sparkling wine and saute until breasts are just-cooked. Overcooking will make your pheasant eat like cardboard.
To serve, spoon some sauce onto plate and arrange cooked breasts on sauce. Spoon additional sauce over breasts.
This recipe yields 4 servings.
Source:
The Sporting Chef with Scott Leysath at - http://www.sportingchef.com
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