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River Café roast pigeon recipe
Photo: Mike Kenneally

River Café roast pigeon recipe

9 ingredients 5 min + 50 min 4 people openrecipes

Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers from the River Café show us how to roast a pigeon Italian style.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

235
Calories
1g
Protein
25g
Fat
3g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 4 Pigeons
  • 4 Garlic cloves, peeled, plus one whole bulb, cut across in half
  • 5 Bunches of fresh thyme
  • 5 Bunches of fresh thyme
  • 200 Butter
  • g Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 Chianti Classico
  • 200 Pinch of sea salt
  • ml Pinch of freshly ground black pepper

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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