Roast Grouse With Cotechino Stuffing – Mediterranean

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Italian	Chefs, Christmas, Of, Twelve	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2		Red onions, finely chopped
2		Cloves garlic, finely
		chopped
2		Stalks celery, finely
		chopped
1		Carrot, finely chopped
4	oz	Chicken livers, diced
1/2	t	Soft thyme leaves
3	oz	Soft white breadcrumbs
12		Sage leaves
3	T	Good olive oil
8		Dry red wine
1		Cotechino sausage, Italian
		spiced
		sausage casing
		removed
6		Grouse or partridge
1	t	Soft thyme leaves
12		Prosciutto
4	oz	Dried ceps, soaked for 1/2
		hour drained
		squeezed and
		chopped reserve
		soaking liquor
		Olive oil
4	oz	Chicken livers, chopped
1		Onion, finely diced
3		Garlic cloves, finely
		chopped
12		Dry red wine
		Salt and freshly ground
		black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook the onion, garlic, celery, carrot and thyme in the oil until  soft
but not brown. Crumble the cotechino sausage into the onion mix  with
the sage and fry for 10 minutes. Add the chicken liver and cook  for a
further 2 minutes. Add the wine, and boil to reduce by half.  Season
with salt and pepper, allow to cool then fold in enough  breadcrumbs to
bind the stuffing.  Stuff the birds, and wrap each in two slices of
prosciutto. Preheat  the oven to its hottest setting.  Heat the olive
oil in a pan and cook the garlic, onion, thyme and  chopped mushrooms
until the onion is softening. Add the mushroom  juice and cook until no
liquid remains.  In a roasting pan, heat some olive oil and brown the
birds on each  side. Roast in the hot oven for 10 minutes, turn the
birds and roast  for a further 5 minutes with the mushroom mix and the
wine.  Remove the birds and keep warm. Stir the juices in the pan and
add a  little butter to enrich the sauce. Serve the birds with polenta
and  pangrattato.  Converted by MC_Buster.  Converted by MM_Buster
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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 10641 Calories From Fat: 7390 Total Fat: 833.7g Cholesterol: 3261.5mg Sodium: 30532.4mg Potassium: 2837.7mg Carbohydrates: 185g Fiber: 35.4g Sugar: 17.9g Protein: 653.8g