Masterchef Nguyễn Thị Lâm
Recipe for stuffed pigeon stew
Serves: 4
Time: 3hr
Style: slow cook, simmer
Ingredients:
- Two prepared pigeons
- Young green rice, with a pinch for each pigeon: 50gr
- Minced pork: 150gr
- Salt and pepper
Slow cooked pigeon
Method:
- Mix the meat and young green rice well with a dash of salt and pepper and stuff the birds.
- In a hot pan, add oil and fry the pigeons until the meat is cooked on the skin.
- Then, in a pot, preferably with a thick bottom, put the pigeons in, add 500ml of boiling water, season to taste, and simmer on a low flame or No 3 on an electric cooker for two hours. Yes, you read that right, two full hours so that the pigeons are tenderly cooked but still keeps their form.
Serve hot with rice or as a soup. Garnish with cilantro.
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