Saviory Quail Meat Pie
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Tami and I have been cooking quite a bit during the Coronavirus quarantine, you'd think with everything shut down that I'd be able to catch up on projects ... but am as far behind as ever. Take this meal we prepared back in March for PI day that I'm just now getting around to posting. Sometimes, we'll will cook themed meals for TV Shows such as Game of Thrones, NFL playoffs and other various things. The day before, while driving home from Walmart, she asked me what I wanted to cook for PI day. March 14th or 3/14, is known as Pi day around the world, for the mathematical constant 3.14 blah blah blah. I was all like, "I don't want to cooking anything", to which she replied, "But last year we made homemade Chicken Pot Pies and a Blackberry Pie", all while making a sad face, like she was disappointed that I didn't want to do anything this year. Finally, I said, "FINE! If I'm going to have to make a pie again this year, I want to do meat pie, but not any meat pie, but the one from that nursery rhyme where the birds fly out of it." The rhyme is called the "Song of Sixpence" and it went something like "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and Twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, wasn't that a dainty dish, to set before a king?". She finally agreed that we could try to make my bird meat pie, so we brainstormed ideas in the car as we headed back to the grocery store to pick up more supplies. This is what we came up with ... This Roasted Quail Meat Pie with a Savory New Potato & Mushroom Stuffing and an "Out of this World" Blackberry Pie. After we sat down to eat, I asked Tami what she thought about the meat pies, on scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best. She said definitely a 10! I'd take that with a grain of salt, since she's my wife and probably feels obligated to say such things. However, I did catch her eating the leftovers for breakfast this morning, they couldn't have been that bad, right? Our birds may not have sung after, but our bellies and mouths sure did!! #NationalPiDay #EinsteinsBirthday #Piday #MeatPie #QuailPie #BlackberryPie #OutofthisWorld #GundogCentral #gamebirds #hunting #birdhunting
Ingredients
Bird Pie
Instructions
Step #1 Make a brine from 2 cup water and 2 Tablespoons of Salt. Submerge the Quail in the brine and refrigerator for 1 hour.
Step #2 Remove Quail from brine, rinse and pat dry.
Step #3 Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Add Quail to baking dish, Salt and Pepper birds liberally, then cover the bird with 2 slices of Bacon. Add Thyme sprigs and cook for ten minutes.
Step #4 Add 1 cup of Chicken Stock to the bottom of pan and cook for an additional ten minutes. Until the temperature of the birds reach around 160. Let cool for ten minutes. Then shred the meat from the bones.
Step #5 To make the stuffing. Cut the new potatoes into coin size pieces. Dice up shallot and garlic. Dice of Rosemary and Thyme.
Step #6 Cook 2 slices of bacon in skillet set to medium heat.
Step #7 Remove Bacon when crisp, then add new potatoes to the skillet with the bacon grease in it. Add Rosemary, Thyme, Salt and Pepper. Cook potatoes for about ten minutes.
Step #8 Add diced up shallots and mushrooms, continue cooking until potatoes are soft.
Step #9 Turn heat off and add shredded Quail meat to the skillet. Cut up crispy bacon and add to skillet.
Step #10 Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Step #11 Place Pie Crust on well floured parchment paper. Take rolling pin and roll crust to flatten and stretch dough.
Step #12 Place a breakfast bowl or cup over on top of the dough, to use as a guide. Take a knife and trace around the edge of the bowl, cutting out a round circle from the dough.
Step #13 Take a spoonful or two of pie filling from the skillet and place it in the center of the dough.
Step #14 Take egg wash or water the brush around the edges of the dough.
Step #15 Fold the dough over so each pie looks like a half circle. Use a fork to go around the outer edge of the pies, pressing down to seal the dough.
Step #16 Brush outside of each pie with egg wash, then sprinkle with Dried Parsley. Cut a few slits in each pie to allow steam to escape.
Step #17 Place pies on a baking sheet and cook for 18 minutes in the oven at 425 degrees.
Step #18 Remove from oven to wire rack and allow to cool for a few minutes.
Recipe Card
Saviory Quail Meat Pie
Ingredients
Bird Pie
Instructions
About the Author
Jeff Davis
Visit authors websiteYou may think cooking and recipes don’t have much to do with a website dedicated to hunting dogs ... but really, why do we hunt? Sure, we enjoy watching our dogs work in the field and being outdoors, but ultimately, hunting is about survival and feeding our families. We might as well try to do it well. I'm not a chef and definitely no food authority ... but I do like to eat and enjoy cooking. After searching for people willing to share their recipes on Gundog Central, without much success, I decided to try to do a few on my own, with my wife Tami's help. The recipes I share here are things I like to eat and have made here at home. I've tried to include step-by-step instructions with each meal describing exactly how I did it, but my method may not be best, if you decide to try a recipe posted here, please use whatever technique you think works best, I'm simply sharing how I did it. You'll see a lot of recipes where I've tried to make things from starch, when I could have just used store bought ingredients, simply because I wanted to learn how something was done. My goal is to continually update these recipes as I learn new things and techniques. These are my attempts at creating good, home cooked food, that I would like to eat! If I'm sharing it here, my family and I enjoyed it and I believe you will too.
