Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 4 (1-pound) pheasant, dressed and split
  • 2 medium onions
  • 4 whole cloves
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 1/2 cups Chablis or other dry white wine
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried whole thyme
  • Hot cooked rice
  • Purple savoy cabbage

Method

  • Combine olive oil and butter in a large skillet; cook over medium heat until butter melts. Add pheasant, and saute until lightly browned. Transfer to paper towels to drain; set aside skillet with oil mixture. Cut a 1/2- inch slice from the bottom of 1 onion; insert cloves, and set aside. Chop remaining onion. Add chopped onion, garlic, and mushrooms to oil mixture in skillet; saute until tender.
  • Return pheasant to skillet. Add wine, parsley, bay leaves, thyme, and reserved onion slice. Cover and simmer 30 minutes or until tender. Discard bay leaves and onion slice.
  • Serve pheasant halves over rice; spoon vegetable mixture over pheasant. Garnish with cabbage.