How to go from a full pigeon to just the breast
We have 9 people coming for Christmas tomorrow and have 9 pigeons like this:
We are going to follow this recipe. And as you can tell we only need the breasts of the pigeon. How do I go about not wasting the rest of the meat.
We have thought about cooking it in bacon for 15 minutes but don't really know any more than that. Any advice would be great!
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I'd butcher the bird in three portions:
Use the breast as in your recipe.
Remove the legs, set them aside.
Roughly chop up the carcass and make a fonds, then stew/braise the legs from (2.) in it.
If the usual Christmas hustle and bustle doesn't allow a long cooking session now, I'd freeze the carcasses and make the fonds another time, perhaps with a few other delicious scraps. In this case, de-boning the legs (fiddly work, I know) and searing them together with the breasts is an option, or you could decide they are so small that they aren't worth the effort and use with the rest of the carcasses.
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