Spatchcock of Wild Partridge

Ingredients

  • Red Pepper
  • Lemon Peel
  • Garlic
  • Thyme
  • Bay Leaves
  • Olive Oil
  • Butterflied Partridge

Method Partridge Spatch Cock.

  1. Cut and finely chop red pepper and garlic, adding it to a bowl.
  2. Carve off the peel to a lemon into the bowl
  3. Pick the leaves off a bunch of thyme.
  4. Adding bay leaves and olive oil. (You can coarsely chop all this in a food processor)
  5. Hand rub the marinade to the butterflied partridge.
  6. Finally place the marinaded partridge into a vacuum bag and seal.
    • Keeping seal for a day or 2 to allow the flavours to penetrate the meat
  7. Once marinaded, take the partridge out the vacuum bags and cook on the Traeger at 180 for 15 minutes.

Ingredients Dirty Mash.

  • 2 kg Maris Piper Potatoes
  • 150mls Cream
  • 150g Butter
  • Salt and Pepper.

Method Dirty Mash

  1. Oven bake the potatoes at 200c° for 45 minutes.
  2. Scoop out the potatoes flesh leaving the skins.
  3. Push the potato flesh through a fine sieve.
  4. Put the fine potato into a pan and heat to finish with the  cream, butter and seasoning. Work the ingredients with a spoon until very smooth and fine. Add more cream and butter until satisfied/ heart attack…..