Stuffed Quail Legs
This is an Indian-inspired stuffed quail legs recipe which is incredibly flavorful like you would expect an Indian dish to be.
It’s a great main dish that you can pair with some creamy mashed potatoes, asparagus, or Indian rice.
Enjoy!
Stuffed Quail Legs
Ingredients
- 4 quail deboned and skinned reserve the bone and discard skin
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 inch piece ginger
- 1 sprig curry leaf
- 5 grams turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon chaat masala
- pinch amchoor powder
- ¼ teaspoon fennel powder
- salt to taste
- 50 grams coriander fresh
- 40 milliliters oil
SAUCE
- 500 milliliters quail stock
- 15 milliliters oil
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1 onion
- 1 inch ginger finely chopped
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon chilli powder
- 2 tomatoes finely chopped
- 50 grams coriander stem fresh
- salt to taste
Instructions
Sauce
- Heat the oil in a pan and add fennel, onion, ginger and curry leaves stir and add turmeric, chilli and tomato.
- Cook until tomatoes are soft and add coriander stem along with the stock.
- Adjust the seasoning.
- Bring it to boil and simmer for 5-10min.
- Remove from the heat and blitz in hand blender.
- Pass it through the strainer.
- Heat the sauce in a pan and serve with Quail.
Quail
- Roughly mince the quail meat in a mixer and keep aside.
- Clean the wing and leg bone, cut the joints into two, you should be able to get 8no bones all together. Roast for few minutes and keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan and saute onion until brown. Add ginger, curry leaves, turmeric chaat masala, amchoor powder, fennel powder, salt and fresh coriander and cook for a minute on a slow fire.
- Add this mixture to the quail meat and mix thoroughly together, adjust the seasoning.
- Now divide the mixture into eight equal size and reconstruct them into a quail leg, stick each leg with piece of bone so that it holds the shape.
- Heat little oil in a pan or griddle and sear the quail. Place on the roasting tray and roast for 3 to 4 minutes. Serve Hot with the sauce.
Notes
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