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Roast guinea fowl with chestnut, sage & lemon stuffing
Photo: Ernest Porzi

Roast guinea fowl with chestnut, sage & lemon stuffing

16 ingredients 45 min Serves 2 openrecipes
Roast guinea fowl with chestnut, sage & lemon stuffing

This festive game bird makes an ideal Christmas dinner for two. The portions are generous so you'll have leftovers to enjoy

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1254
Calories
60g
Protein
42g
Fat
159g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Vegetable 1 tbsp (14g) 120
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cranberry 1 cup raw (100g) 46
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Bacon 1 slice cooked (8g) 43
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Sage 1 tsp ground (0.7g) 2
Sauce not in our table 0
Mace not in our table 0
Chestnut 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

  • 1 small guinea fowl , about 1kg
  • 8 rashers streaky bacon
  • 50g soft butter
  • 1 onion , unpeeled and thickly sliced
  • 2 tbsp plain flour
  • 350ml strong chicken stock
  • cranberry sauce, roast potatoes and vegetables , to serve
  • 1 onion , chopped
  • 25g butter
  • 1 tbsp chopped sage
  • 50g walnuts , finely chopped
  • 50g breadcrumbs
  • zest 2 lemons
  • ¼ tsp ground mace
  • 100g cooked chestnuts , quartered
  • 1 medium egg , beaten with a fork

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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