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I absolutely love cooking with game – I'm a country girl, a farmer's daughter, and it's part of my life. People often don't realize how versatile – and how healthy - game is to cook and eat. There's a huge variety available – from snipe and partridge to venison and hare, and so many ways of preparing it, from traditional old-fashioned and delicious roast pheasant wrapped in bacon to a modern-day venison
burger stuffed with blue cheese. - Rachel Green.

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Mixed Game Pie
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Ingredients
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6

For the filling
200g diced braising venison
350g diced mixed game
2 large onions, sliced
100g smoked bacon, diced
10 mushrooms, sliced
1 tbsp redcurrant jelly
1 tbsp flour
2 sprigs thyme
2 bay leaves
200ml red wine
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
300ml chicken stock

For the pastry
1 packet rolled puff pastry
1 egg
1 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 180c
25cm pie dish

1. Heat a large pan and fry off the meat in batches until evenly coloured. Remove all the meat and fry the bacon and onions until slightly golden.

2. Add all the meat back into the pan, add the bay leaves, thyme, mushrooms and flour. Coat all the meat and allow to cook for a few minutes before adding the red wine, redcurrant jelly, Worcestershire sauce and chicken stock. Bring to the boil, turn down the heat and allow to cook for 1 hr 15 mins.

3. After cooking, season the mix and transfer to a pie dish of your choice about 25cm diameter is perfect but a deep rimmed plate will work just as well.

4. Cover the top of the dish with the pastry and trim off the excess pastry. Crimp the edges with a fork and brush the top with a beaten egg. Season with salt and bake for 30 mins at 180c or until golden brown.

SERVE WITH SEASONAL VEGETABLES

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