Domestic Fowl Based Classic Recipes
By Chris Jensen
Here you will learn a little more about fowl as well as being presented with a classic recipe for preparing guinea fowl.
In colloquial usage the term fowl is often used of any bird that's consumed by people. As such it includes both domestic and game birds. In scientific usage, however, the birds classed as 'fowl' belong to two types either the land fowl Galli forme, chicken-like birds or the waterfowl, Anseri formes, ducks etc.
These two groups of birds are actually very closely related though they did evolve and separate over 100 million years ago. Indeed, the fossil evidence strongly suggest that fully-modern fowl existed during the Cretaceous period, at the time of the dinosaurs. They are thus a very ancient lineage of birds.
A feature of fowl is that they can be readily domesticated and that they also readily interbreed (for example a hybrid between chickens and guinea fowl is possible) and there is a big problem in wild duck problems in that mallards readily interbreed with almost every other species of ducks, producing viable hybrids that dilute-out the wild population. Though the same ability to readily hybridize can be used by breeders to develop strains (such as the Greasing ham duck) with larger breasts and legs or more flavorsome meat.
Of course, most domesticated birds intended for the table (chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese) are fowl in the scientific sense of the word and that's why there is such confusion in the usage of the word. For example, ostriches are quite commonly farmed for their meat and are often, colloquially. But they are not fowl in the true sense of the word. And though the majority of game birds, such as pheasants, geese and ducks are true fowl, other game birds such as woodcock and pigeons are not true fowl.
Below is a classic recipe for one of the most flavorsome of the fowl birds, the guinea fowl.
Roast Guinea fowl with Grapes
Ingredients:
50g butter 2 tbsp oil
2 guinea fowl, each cut into 4 pieces (quartered)
8 shallots
500g seedless black grapes
450ml grape juice (unsweetened)
300ml dry white wine
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
350g brown rice
3 tbsp chopped tarragon
Method:
Use a large flameproof casserole dish. Place on the hob then add half the oil and butter and heat. When hot use to fry the guinea fowl pieces until browned all over. Now add the shallots, 350g of the grapes the grape juice and the wine to the dish and season with salt and freshly-ground black pepper.
Cover and transfer to an oven pre-heated to 160 degree celcius. Roast for 20 minutes then add the rice, stir in and cook for a further 40 minutes, or until the guinea fowl pieces are tender and the rice is cooked through.
Remove from the oven, stir-in the remaining butter and the tarragon and spoon onto a serving dish. Garnish with the remaining grapes and serve with steamed green vegetables.
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