Cooking Easy Recipes

Quail with Wine

Servings:
1 Servings
Listed in Categories:
  • 8 Quails
  • Salt & freshly ground black
  • Pepper
  • 1 1/2 c Madeira wine
  • 1/2 c Raisins
  • 3 Cloves
  • 1 c Cooked white rice
  • 1/2 ts Powdered ginger
  • 1 ts Grated orange peel
  • 1 tb Butter, melted
  • 2/3 c Chopped pecans
  • 1/2 c Butter, melted
  • Juice of one orange
  • 1/2 c Cognac, heated
Preheat oven to hot (450 degrees). Wash & dry the quail. Sprinkle
inside & out with salt & pepper. In a saucepan combine the Madeira,
raisins & cloves. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat & simmer five
minutes. Strain the mixture, discarding the cloves & reserving the
wine & raisins. In a mixing bowl combine the raisins, rice, ginger,
orange peel, Tbls. of melted butter & the nuts. Mix well & use the
mixture to stuff the quail. Place the quail on a rack in a shallow
open roasting pan & brush with part of the butter. Bake five minutes.
Reduce the oven temperature to slow (300 degrees) & bake twenty-five
minutes longer, basting frequently with a mixture of the remaining
butter, the reserved Madeira & orange juice. Place the quail in a
chafing dish. Season the liquid in the roasting pan with salt &
pepper to taste & pour over the quail. When steam rises from the
chafing dish, pour the warmed cognac over the quail, ignite & serve
at once.

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