Pintade Au Vin Rouge Guinea Hen In Red Wine Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Sprinkle the guinea hens with salt and pepper.
• Heat the oil in a heavy skillet large enough to hold the pieces in one layer. Add the hen pieces skin side down and cook, turning the pieces often, until browned all over.
• Add the onions and mushrooms and stir. Cook about two minutes. Sprinkle with flour and stir so that the ingredients cook evenly.
• Add the wine, water, bay leaf, thyme and parsley. Cover and cook about 20 minutes. Uncover and let cook about 10 minutes longer.

Steps:

• Set the backbone aside for another use or discard it. Sprinkle the remaining pieces of chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge lightly in flour. Shake off excess flour.
• Heat the oil in a heavy skillet large enough to hold the chicken in one layer. Add the chicken pieces (skin side down) and the onions. Cook until nicely browned on one side, about four to five minutes. Turn the pieces and continue cooking about four minutes. Pour off the fat from the skillet. Add the wine, thyme and bay leaf. Cover closely and cook about 15 minutes.
• Uncover and transfer the chicken pieces and onions to a serving dish. Remove and discard the bay leaf. To the wine sauce in the skillet add the butter and swirl it around in the sauce. Pour the sauce over the chicken and sprinkle with chopped parsley.

Steps:

• Cut a piece of salt pork into eight thin slices. To tie up hens, place breast up and put thin string over legs, then bring string behind them. Cross string in front by breastbone, then carry around joint of leg near body. Flip hen over. Pull string up from legs and through flaps of wing joints, bringing ends together in center. Tuck loose skin under string. Knot firmly. Bend back wing tips to lie flat against hen's body. Tuck salt pork slices between legs and breast. Cover tops of hens with two more slices pork. Tie fat twice with string to keep it in place.
• Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a cocotte or casserole, arrange guinea hens in butter and season them with salt and pepper. Roast in a 375°F oven for 40 minutes, basting twice with butter in pan.
• Meanwhile sauté the mushrooms (sliced if they are large, whole if they are small) in remaining butter. When guinea hens are tender and brown, remove to a hot serving platter, remove barding pork and cut them in half for serving. Skim off excess fat from liquid in casserole, pour the juices into a skillet, add the champagne and reduce rapidly over high heat until liquid is half the original amount. Mix egg yolks and cream. Lower heat and carefully stir the egg-cream mixture into the hot liquid (it is a wise precaution to mix one teaspoon potato starch with the egg-cream mixture to prevent the sauce from separating). Cook, stirring, over very low heat, being careful not to let the sauce boil. When smooth and slightly thickened, taste for seasoning and add the mushrooms with their juices. Pour the sauce over the guinea hens. Garnish with the croutons and serve with fondant potatoes and sautéed green beans.
• With this, drink a fine dry champagne.