Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms And Sherry

Prepare your pheasant like a master chef with this delicious and amazing braised pheasant recipe.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4 People

Ingredients
  

  • 2 MacFarlane Pheasant About 2.5 lbs each
  • 4 Slices Bacon Cut into 1/4 in pieces
  • 4 Tbsp Butter Can use Olive Oil
  • Flour for coating
  • 1 Onion Chopped
  • 3 Stalks Celery Sliced
  • 1/2 - 1 Shallot
  • 1/2 Bulb Fennel Thinly Sliced
  • 1 oz Porcini Mushrooms in 8 oz of Water Reserve water
  • 8 oz Fresh Mushrooms Sliced
  • 1/3 Cup Dry Roast Almonds Sliced
  • 1 Tbsp Coarse Salt
  • 1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
  • 3-4 Sprigs Fresh Thyme
  • 1 Sprig Fresh Rosemary
  • White Wine As needed for braising
  • 1 Pint Cream or Half & Half
  • 1 Cup Dry Sherry

Instructions
 

  • Remove backbone from pheasant and quarter, pat dry. 
  • Cook bacon in Dutch oven until slightly brown, remove bacon and leave the grease. 
  • Heat half of butter or oil in Dutch oven. 
  • Shake pheasant in bag with flour.
  • Brown (all sides) on medium high heat, takes about 20 minutes. 
  • Remove pheasant, add remaining butter, sauté onion, celery, shallots and fennel until tender.
  • Add mushrooms (regular and porcini) and almonds and continue cooking until tender. 
  •  Add porcini water, 1/2 cup white wine, salt, pepper, thyme and rosemary.
  • Heat to simmer and then add pheasant.
  • Place in 325 degrees F oven for 2 hours tightly covered.
  • Check liquid level, add white wine if necessary.
  • Remove pheasant, stir in cream or half and half and sherry. 
  • Return pheasant to pan, cover and place in 350 degrees F oven until meat falls off the bone (approx.1 hr).
  • Remove pheasant and boil sauce down if necessary.

Notes

Serve With: Brown long grain rice
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