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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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Recipe: Slow-roast wild duck with cider gravy
Tim Maddam’s beautiful slow-roast duck with cider gravy recipe is easy to make and absolutely delicious... perfect for warming the cockles on chilly winter nights.
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Recipe: BBQ pigeon (don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it!)
Tim Maddams presents this easy BBQ pigeon recipe so you can have a change from the usual sausages and burgers... don’t be scared, it’s lovely and tender!
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Recipe: Pheasant pie
A beautifully comforting pheasant pie recipe to warm you on a chilly winter’s night after a long day in the field.
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How to: Prep rabbits for the pot (plus, devilled rabbit liver recipe)
Tim Maddams teaches us step by step how to gut, skin and butcher a rabbit for the table, and concludes with a delicious devilled rabbit livers recipe!
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Recipe: Rabbit stock and a tasty soup
Tim Maddams teaches us how to use the trim and bones of a butchered rabbit to make a delicious stock and an incredibly tasty butternut squash soup! Waste not, want not!
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Watch: Pulled rabbit recipe
Cai Ap Bryn from Game and Flames shows us an incredible rabbit and pancetta salad with homemade ranch dressing recipe in this step-by-step video... mouth-watering!
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