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Smoked squab pigeon with beetroot and chervil
Photo: Mike Kenneally

Smoked squab pigeon with beetroot and chervil

38 ingredients 1 hr + 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

The sweetness of beetroot is a perfect bedfellow for the squab pigeon, which in this recipe is smoked over spruce bark.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

765
Calories
36g
Protein
43g
Fat
57g
Carbs

Counts 15 of 20 ingredients — the other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 15 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Grapeseed Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 120
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Banana 1 medium (118g) 105
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Rosemary 1 tsp dried (1.2g) 4
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Squab not in our table 0
Veal not in our table 0
Beetroot not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0
Chervil not in our table 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 squab pigeons
  • 500g/17½oz spruce bark
  • 50ml/2fl oz smoked oil
  • 2 sprigs fresh thyme
  • 1 garlic
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • olive oil
  • 100g/3½oz butter
  • 8 squab pigeon
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 banana shallots
  • 100g/3½oz button mushrooms
  • 2 garlic
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 1 sprig fresh rosemary
  • 200ml/7fl oz red wine
  • 300ml/10½fl oz chicken stock
  • 200ml/7fl oz veal
  • 5 baby beetroots
  • 200ml/7fl oz water
  • 100g/3½oz sugar
  • 100ml/3½oz Pedro Ximenez sherry vinegar
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 beetroot
  • 400ml/14fl oz beetroot
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • ½ tsp xanthan gum (optional)
  • , to taste vinegar
  • 4 large beetroots
  • 500ml/17½fl oz beetroot
  • and freshly ground saltblack pepper
  • 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 100ml/3½fl oz grapeseed oil
  • salt
  • 1 beetroot
  • olive oil
  • sea salt
  • 1 bunch fresh chervil

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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