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Roast Quail Recipe with Sage and Lemon
A quick simple easy and tasty roast quail recipe that just requires quality ingredients and very little skill.Quail are a very small bird and you will need three per person. Try to get unfarmed quail if you can.
Roasted swiftly with Sea Salt Sage and Lemon this dish goes very well with some good boulengere potatoes.
If you like this Roast Quail Recipe you might like to try this Guinea Fowl Recipe with Fennel garlic and pancetta from Real Recipes
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Serving size: 400gm
Calories per serving: 475
Fat per serving: 25gm
Updated on 1st November 2012 By:
For this Roast Quail Recipe with Sage and Lemon – You will need:
Ingredients (Serves 4)
- 12 large quail
- 5 tablespoons sea salt
- 1 handful Fresh Sage
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 lemons
Method
- Chop the sage with the sea salt
- Preheat your oven to 200c
- Cut each of your lemons into four pieces
- Heat a large heavy based roasting pan on top of your stove until hot
- Chop the sage roughly with the sea salt
- Rub the quail all over inside and out with the sea salt and sage mixture
- Brush the base of your roasting pan generously with olive oil
- Add the rice and stir until all the grains are coated
- Brown the quail all over
- Add the lemon quarters and quickly heat them until they start to release their juice
- Stuff each of the quail with a piece of lemon
- Transfer to the oven and roast for 30 minutes or until the leags come easily away from the body
- Serve with extra lemon
I know game recipe and their strong flavours put off a lot of people but this Roast Quail Recipe really is very simple and is a great introduction to the variety that game recipes offer
