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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: Quick and easy pheasant curry
This delicious pheasant curry is quick and easy to make, and bursting with flavours. A real week night treat when the game season is in full swing!
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Recipe: Venison and horseradish cream canapes
As far as canapes go, these venison and horseradish cream crostinis aren’t too tricky to make, and they are perfect for wow-ing your guests at Christmas!
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Recipe: Roasted partridge with cider sauce
The Game for Anything kitchen presents a classic roast partridge recipe, served with cider sauce, dauphinoise potatoes, and red cabbage with apples for a truly warming winter dish...
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Recipe: Game, apple and leek sausage rolls
This simple game sausage roll recipe combines rich game meat with tangy apple and creamy leeks for a mouthwatering shoot day treat.
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Recipe: Easy “one pot” wild venison liver pate
A super simple venison pate that freezes well, and that is ideal for using up those beautiful venison livers if you're not overly keen on offal.
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Recipe: Venison chilli nachos
Crunchy tortillas, succulent venison haunch, melted cheese and cool sour cream combine in this awesome nachos recipe - it's a pimped up version for sure!
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Recipe: Tender grilled pheasant skewers
These quick, easy and healthy pheasant skewers are tender, delicious and versatile; dip them into BBQ or lemon and herb sauce, eat them as they are or coat in satay sauce!
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Recipe: Cheesy venison lasagna
Anna Rogers of Very Good Venison shares her tasty, cheesy venison lasagna recipe - a weekday staple that the whole family will love.
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Watch: lobster catch and harbourside cook-up!
Tim Maddams successfully tests out his new lobster creole with a catch, before cooking it up harbourside into a lobster roll to die for!
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Watch: Scottish roebuck hunt and cook
Watch chef Tim Maddams as he hunts a beautiful Scottish roebuck, then demonstrates a stunning venison liver recipe in his kitchen at home.
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