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Game is healthy, low-fat, wild and a British classic, so treat yourself to Delia's winter warming recipes: casseroles, braised dishes, roasts and other slow-cooked delights featuring venison, pheasant, partridge, rabbit and quail.

The Delia Online Cookery School: Most of our game recipes go well with mashed potatoes, and you can watch how to make them in our video. Just click the image to play.

Braised Pheasants

Because older birds are not tender enough to be roasted, they are excellent slowly braised and tenderised i...

Because older birds are not tender enough to be roasted, they are excellent slowly braised and tenderised in a beautiful sauce. The advantage of a little age is, of...

Braised Venison with Bacon

This casserole freezes extremely well and fits the bill perfectly at Christmas when you have had enough tur...

This casserole freezes extremely well and fits the bill perfectly at Christmas when you have had enough turkey. Because it’s braised slowly, there are lots of lovel...

2 hours 30 minutes

Braised Wood Pigeon

Wood pigeon is the most inexpensive game bird of all, so although you need about one per person, it is stil...

Wood pigeon is the most inexpensive game bird of all, so although you need about one per person, it is still excellent value and rather special – in fact, serving it w...

1 hour 20 minutes - 1 hour 30 minutes

Easy Game Pie

Yes, this really is easy. You can now buy packs of three different selections of ready-prepared game or ...

Yes, this really is easy. You can now buy packs of three different selections of ready-prepared game or you can use all cubed venison. Combine the game with a good-...

25 minutes - 30 minutes

Grilled Venison Steaks

Venison steaks are very lean and tender and, so, perfect for a low-fat supper dish. A confit to serve wi...

Venison steaks are very lean and tender and, so, perfect for a low-fat supper dish. A confit to serve with them is, I think, far nicer than a sauce containing lots ...

45 minutes - 1 hour

Baked Guinea Fowl

Before you cry off this one, remember that garlic, simmered gently for 1¼ hours, mellows deliciously, losin...

Before you cry off this one, remember that garlic, simmered gently for 1¼ hours, mellows deliciously, losing much of its pungency. I have to admit it's probably not...

1 hour 10 minutes

Guinea Fowl au Vin

This is more or less my long-loved recipe for Coq au Vin, but made with guinea fowl. As guinea fowl...

This is more or less my long-loved recipe for Coq au Vin, but made with guinea fowl. As guinea fowl is smaller than chicken, one bird will feed only two people...

Rabbit Pie

This is a really delicious pie, good for a dinner party – and if you can get hold of a wild rabbit for it s...

This is a really delicious pie, good for a dinner party – and if you can get hold of a wild rabbit for it so much the better. The Delia Online Cookery School: Serve...

Old-fashioned Raised Game Pie

This recipe is not quite as difficult as it might seem from the daunting lists below. Once you have asse...

This recipe is not quite as difficult as it might seem from the daunting lists below. Once you have assembled and sorted out all the ingredients you are well on you...

Pheasant Roasted in Butter Muslin

If you want to roast pheasants that are guaranteed to be moist and tender, then this is the best way I've c...

If you want to roast pheasants that are guaranteed to be moist and tender, then this is the best way I've come across. Do remember, though, to check with your suppl...

1 hour - 1 hour 30 minutes

Pheasant Terrine

This is excellent served as a light lunch with lovely crisp gherkins and lightly toasted bread. It also ...

This is excellent served as a light lunch with lovely crisp gherkins and lightly toasted bread. It also goes a long way at a help-yourself buffet party, or as a fir...

1 hour 45 minutes - 2 hours

Poached Pheasant with Celery

Celery has a wonderful affinity with poultry and game and the two have often appeared together in English r...

Celery has a wonderful affinity with poultry and game and the two have often appeared together in English recipes over the centuries. This recipe is what I would ca...

Pot-roasted Guinea Fowl

There are some lovely plump, free-range guinea fowl around at Christmas and this would be a splendid celebr...

There are some lovely plump, free-range guinea fowl around at Christmas and this would be a splendid celebration lunch or supper for two or three. If you don’t have...

Pot-roasted Partridges with Red Cabbage

This is a delightful way to serve plump little partridges, one per person, and the combined flavour of red ...

This is a delightful way to serve plump little partridges, one per person, and the combined flavour of red cabbage, garlic and juniper are the perfect match. The De...

Pot-roasted Pheasant with Port and Chestnuts

This recipe makes an excellent change from turkey (if there are not too many of you for Christmas lunch). ...

This recipe makes an excellent change from turkey (if there are not too many of you for Christmas lunch). It is certainly easier and quicker to prepare, and it has ...

Pot-roasted Pheasants in Madeira

In the original recipe a brace of pheasants were cut up into portions, but that is quite a bit of work. ...

In the original recipe a brace of pheasants were cut up into portions, but that is quite a bit of work. So we've found it easier this time to cook the pheasants who...

Pot-roasted Venison

As the title suggests, this is a warming, fragrant and very inviting supper dish that will do wonders to ch...

As the title suggests, this is a warming, fragrant and very inviting supper dish that will do wonders to cheer up the long winter nights. Serve it with clouds of fl...

Rabbit in Cider

If you can get hold of a wild rabbit for this, so much the better. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watc...

If you can get hold of a wild rabbit for this, so much the better. The Delia Online Cookery School: Watch how to chop onions in our video, press the recipe image to...

Roast Goose with Stuffing

Here's another superb way to serve goose. If you haven't made the Spiced Pickled Pears well in adva...

Here's another superb way to serve goose. If you haven't made the Spiced Pickled Pears well in advance fear not - they are almost as good served straightaway a...

Roast Pheasant with Chestnut Stuffing

Those of us who lament the loss of real free-range flavour need look no further than pheasant, one of the f...

Those of us who lament the loss of real free-range flavour need look no further than pheasant, one of the finest flavoured game birds. Chestnuts, which have a great...

1 hour 15 minutes

Roast Quail

I am a self-confessed quail convert, having shunned them for years as being undersized and fiddly. I was...

I am a self-confessed quail convert, having shunned them for years as being undersized and fiddly. I was wrong. They are plump and meaty and, because they are self-...

Roasted Wild Rabbit and Bacon

This is how I remember my mother cooking rabbit: roasted on a bed of onions covered with crisp bacon, and r...

This is how I remember my mother cooking rabbit: roasted on a bed of onions covered with crisp bacon, and rows of savoury stuffing cooked alongside. I have added Ma...

35 minutes - 40 minutes

Terrine of Venison

This is just about the easiest terrine in the world to make because you can buy the venison and the pork re...

This is just about the easiest terrine in the world to make because you can buy the venison and the pork ready minced. The result is a lovely, rough country p...

Venison Braised in Blackfriars Porter

This is dark, rich and luscious and needs lots of fluffy mashed potato to absorb all the exquisite sauce. ...

This is dark, rich and luscious and needs lots of fluffy mashed potato to absorb all the exquisite sauce. It's perfect, too, for entertaining as it braises slowly i...

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