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Viewed: 32 - Published at: 4 years agoIngredients
- 2 guinea fowl or poussins
- 1/2 cup goose, duck or bacon fat
- Salt, white pepper, sugar and sea salt
- 2 cups rich chicken stock
- 23 cup port
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon walnut oil, or light olive oil
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 slices white bread, crusts removed
- 1 clove garlic
- Pinch each salt
- Pinch each white pepper
- Pinch each sugar
- 1 cup grapeseed oil
- 13 cup grapeseed oil
- 1/2 cup loosely packed Italian parsley leaves
- 3 1/2 ounces spinach leaves, steamed
- 18-inch piece daikon, peeled, cooked and sliced into 1/2-inch rounds
- 2 leeks, cleaned, cut in half lengthwise and poached
- 4 small Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and boiled
- 8 ounces soy beans, shelled and cooked
Method
- Split guinea fowl or poussins.
- Remove wing portions and backbones.
- Bone breasts and thighs, leaving breast and thigh pieces attached with skin.
- Place each piece in a separate zip-top plastic freezer bag and spoon in 2 tablespoons fat.
- Add a pinch of pepper, sugar and salt to each, expel air from the bags, seal.
- Squeeze to mix.
- For chicken jus: Boil chicken stock in a saucepan until reduced to about 1 1/2 cups.
- Add port and boil until mixture is syrupy and reduced to 2/3 cup, about 20 minutes.
- Season with soy sauce, walnut oil and salt.
- For bread sauce: Place bread, garlic, salt, pepper and sugar in a food processor and blend into crumbs.
- Drizzle in oil and blend into a paste.
- For parsley oil: Combine oil and parsley in a blender and puree.
- Heat 3 quarts of water in a 5-quart saucepan to 140 degrees.
- Place the fowl packets in the water, cover and cook 35 minutes, until you can push your finger into the thigh of the bird.
- Do not test flesh through the skin side.
- Remove from bags and arrange on a foil-lined baking sheet.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and broil until golden on each side, about 8 minutes total.
- Reheat jus.
- Divide the spinach and daikon among 4 plates and drizzle with 2 tablespoons jus.
- Top each with a half fowl, then the remaining jus.
- Drizzle with parsley oil and arrange a leek half over top.
- Place the potatoes, beans and a dollop of bread sauce to the side.
