Roast Guinea Fowl Recipes

ROAST GUINEA FOWL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C fan oven) mark 6. Put the guinea fowl in a bowl, add the lemon zest and juice, bay leaves, thyme and peppercorns. Cover and leave to marinate for 1hr.
• Put the bird in a roasting tin, breast side down, stuff with the lemon quarters and the butter, pour the stock over and roast for 50min.
• Turn the guinea fowl on to the backbone, and continue to roast for 20min or until the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a skewer.
• Put the guinea fowl on a board and cover with foil. Leave to rest.
• To make the gravy, put the roasting tin on the heat and scrape up the juices in the pan. Add redcurrant jelly, wine and 50ml (2fl oz) water to the pan and bring to the boil. Simmer for 3-5 min to make a gravy and season well.

ROAST GUINEA FOWL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to very hot.
• Fold the wings behing the bird, and tie the legs loosely together.
• Brush with the butter and cover the breasts with the slices of bacon.
• Place on a rack set over a baking dish and cook in the center of the oven for 20 minutes per pound.
• Transfer the birds to a warmed serving dish and cover.
• Add the wine to the pan juices with the lemon juice and boil rapidly for a moment or two.
• Adjust the seasoning and serve with the birds.
• Discard the bacon.

ROAST GUINEA FOWL

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Wash birds and pat dry. Gently loosen the skin of each fowl's breast and place flat-leaf parsley leaves under it. Fill birds with stuffing, truss with butcher's twine, and place in a foil-lined roasting pan. Melt butter and brush birds; sprinkle with salt and pepper, and surround with the chervil, parsley, and garlic.
• Roast for 15 minutes. Add wine to pan and brush birds again with melted butter. Reduce heat to 400 degrees and roast for 1 hour. Cover with foil and roast for 15 to 30 minutes more.

ROAST GUINEA HEN

Steps:

• Combine all of the marinade ingredients in a bowl. Place the guinea hen in a large, deep bowl, pour the marinade over and inside the hen, cover the bowl, and marinate, refrigerated, overnight, turning occasionally to ensure that all parts of the bird are covered.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Remove the hen from the marinade. Reserve the marinade. Put the hen in a roasting pan and brush with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Turn the hen breastside down in the pan and roast for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn the hen onto its back, decrease the oven temperature to 325 degrees, and roast for 1 hour. While the hen is roasting, place the reserved marinade in a saucepan, bring to a boil, and reduce to approximately 1/4 cup. When the hen has 15 minutes left to cook, pour the reduced marinade over the hen and return it to the oven for its final 15 minutes of cooking. Remove from the oven, and let the hen rest for 10 or 15 minutes before dividing into serving portions.

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.

POT ROASTED GUINEA FOWL WITH CALVADOS CREAM AND APPLES

Steps:

• heat butter in a large deep saucepan (that has a tight fitting lid for later) on medium heat until it starts to foam, season bird and and brown in hot butter turning the bird using a cloth to protect your hands.
• at this stage when bird is sitting upright again, warm calavdos in a ladle over a direct heat, turn flame out and set to light the warm calvados using a long match and pour over the guinea fowl.
• when flames have died down add shallots and garlic anmd keeping heat low let them soften whilst you prepapre apples .
• remove cores form apples and cut into 1cm rings, asd you slice them add to the pan tucking them all around.
• now pour in the cider, add teh chopped sage and some seasoning, put on tight lid and let it cook very gently for one hour.
• When the bird is cooked remove and take to carving board and cover, simmer apples til liquid has almost evaporated, then add the cream the apples giving it a good shake, then turn heat off.
• crave guinea folw and arrange on serving platter, spoon the apples and a few sage leaves to garnish.

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.