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Game Soup
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Ingredients
550g/1lb2oz green lentils
1.7L/3pt water
1 onion, diced
1 leek, white part only, sliced
1 sprig thyme
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper
1 pheasant, singed and trussed
50g/2oz butter, melted
125ml/4fl oz double cream
Method
1. Rinse the lentils and put them in a saucepan with the water, onion, leek, thyme and bay leaf. Season with salt and cook for 1 hour or until the lentils are very soft. Drain, removing the bay leaf and reserving the cooking liquid.
2. Season the pheasant with salt and pepper, pour the melted butter over it and roast at 180C/350F/Gas 4, for 30 minutes or until slightly underdone.
3. Cut the pheasant meat off the bones, setting aside the breast fillets. Pound the remaining meat in a mortar, and add the lentils.
4. Pound again thoroughly until the mixture is perfectly smooth, rub it through a fine sieve into a saucepan and moisten it with the reserved lentil stock.
5. Re-heat, add the cream and correct the seasoning. Dice the reserved pheasant breast fillets, place them in a tureen and pour over the soup.
Tags: green lentil, leek, onion, pheasant
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