Roasted Wood Pigeon with Mustard Frills and Pickled Blackberries

Serves: 2

Difficulty: Easy

Preparation time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 10 minutes

• 2 Pigeon breasts

• Mustard frills

• 100ml Red wine vinegar

• 100g Golden caster sugar

• Handful of Blackberries

• Splash of French dressing

Dissolve the sugar into the vinegar over a low heat and pop in the blackberries, leaving to pickle for around 10 minutes.

To cook the pigeon, heat a small frying pan and season the breasts with salt and pepper. Pop the pigeon into the pan, skin side down and cook over a moderate hear for around 1 mintue. Flip over briefly before turning down the heat, adding the remaining butter and basting the pigeon over a low heat until just cooked and nice and springy to the touch - this should take around 2 minutes, depending on the size of the breasts.

Allow the pigeon to rest before slicing and serving the blackberries and some mustard frills dressed in the French dressing and a pinch of salt.

This recipe is taken from the Daylesford cookery school's Autumn feast course.