Winter roasts recipe for 4 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has guinea fowl, lemon, bay leaf, thyme, olive oil, potato, garlic clove, chestnut mushroom, chestnut, white wine, stock and redcurrant jelly.
Guinea fowl with roast chestnuts
Course: Winter roasts
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 3 garlic cloves, unpeeled and bruised
- Olive Oil: 3 tbsp olive oil
- Lemon: 1 lemon
- Bay Leaf: 2 bay leaves
- Thyme: several thyme sprigs
- Potato: 500g potato, unpeeled, cut into chunks
- White Wine: 150ml white wine
- Chestnut Mushroom: 200g chestnut mushroom, halved if large
- Stock: 150ml chicken stock
- Chestnut: 200g cooked chestnut
- Redcurrant Jelly: 1 tbsp bramble or redcurrant jelly
- Guinea Fowl: 1 guinea fowl or chicken, about 1.3kg/3lb
Directions
- Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Season the guinea fowl or chicken inside and out, halve the lemon, then put inside the bird with the bay leaves and 2 thyme sprigs. Set in a roasting tin, drizzle with a little olive oil, then roast for 15 mins.
- Meanwhile, strip the remaining thyme leaves from their stalks. Mix the potatoes, thyme, garlic and remaining oil, then season. Put potatoes around the bird, then return to the oven for 45 mins. Stir the mushrooms into the potatoes along with the chestnuts. Roast for a further 15 mins until mushrooms are cooked. Spoon vegetables onto a warm platter. Nestle the cooked bird back among veg. Keep warm while you prepare the sauce.
- Boil the pan juices on the hob, add the wine, stock and jelly, then bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the jelly. Boil hard until the sauce is slightly thickened. Taste and add more seasoning if necessary, then pour into a jug and pass round for everyone to help themselves.
