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Game recipes: how to cook pheasant, partridge, venison and more
Welcome to Sporting Gun’s game recipes hub – your essential resource for making the most of every bird and beast you bring home from the field.
Game is among the most sustainable, nutritious and flavoursome meat you can put on the table, and cooking it well is a skill worth developing. Whether you’re looking for a classic roast pheasant for a Sunday lunch, a slow-cooked partridge casserole for a midweek supper, or something more adventurous with venison, pigeon or woodcock, you’ll find it here.
Our recipes cover every skill level – from straightforward weeknight dishes for the time-pressed Gun to impressive centrepieces for entertaining. We also tackle the practical side: how to prepare, hang, pluck and butcher your own game at home.
From driven day pheasants to walked-up grouse, make the most of your season’s harvest – starting in the kitchen.
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RecipesRecipe: Wild garlic pasta
Game for Anything have provided this mouthwatering wild garlic pasta recipe - it’s a great way to put some of those luscious, dark green leaves to good use!
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Recipe: Pickled wild garlic buds (great with game meat!)
Make the most of your wild garlic harvest with this brilliant “pickled wild garlic buds” recipe - perfect to eat with grilled fish or game (like pheasant!)
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Recipe: Wild garlic butter
Make the most of wild garlic when it's around by making some delicious wild garlic butter that can then be frozen for later use.
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Recipe: Partridge and wild garlic Kiev
A match made in heaven! Beautiful bright green wild garlic combines with the mild, subtle gamey-ness of partridge to create a kiev on another level!
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Recipe: Roast partridge with rosemary potatoes
A perfectly roast partridge adorned with classic, aromatic, rosemary roast potatoes; a fail safe!
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Recipe: Venison and veg casserole
Simple, timeless, healthy... you can't go wrong with a good old venison and veg packed casserole.
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Recipe: Game meat BBQ bonanza!
When the temperatures rise, it's much pleasanter to cook outside! Impress friends and family with a mix of Cajun rabbit burgers, venison koftas, and partridge kebabs!
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Recipe: Venison prosciutto & pheasant salami
Gamey takes on two classic cured meat dishes - what could be better on your charcuterie board than venison prosciutto and pheasant salami!?
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Recipe: Coronation partridge
There’s something beautifully nostalgic about Coronation chicken - the type your mum, and her mum, used to make. This one is made with partridge, so it's high welfare and low food miles too!
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Recipe: Smoked pigeon with elderberry syrup
If there's one thing that makes pigeon breast even more delicious, it's smoking it! This recipe pairs the deep, smokey flavour of the pigeon with a sweet elderberry syrup.
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