Sparkling wine-flavored quails

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Black-truffle-flavored quails in sparkling wine gravy Authentic Italian recipe

Black-truffle-flavored quails is a tasty and refined main course for an important celebration menu. Keep in mind you need two expensive ingredients: black truffle and rosé sparkling wine. This means this quail recipe is not suitable for your normal weekly menu.

Prepare quails.
If they are not bought oven-ready, you have to pluck, draw, clean and singe them.
Put a pinch of salt (and chilli powder, if desired) in the stomach cavity of every fowl.
Wrap every quail in a bacon rasher, securing it with kitchen string or a tooth-pick.
Chop the leek finely.
Clean and slice the black truffle.
Put the olive oil, leek and quails in a large saucepan and brown the fowls all over, on low heat.
Add the glasses of sparkling wine and let it evaporate partially over a medium heat.
Pour in the cherry tomatoes with half of their juice.
Stir in the dried chives and truffle.
Season to taste with salt.
Bring to the boil and cook over a medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
Serve hot.

Healthy eating

- As you can see the nutrition facts of quails with sparkling wine is very high if you use these doses for quails (generally suggested in all cookbooks). Indeed, the right portion is only a quail per head according to healthy eating. In this case all the values that you can read on the nutrition facts are automatically cut in half.
The choice is yours.
On the other hand, the dish is very tasty and refined. It can be served in a full menu where it is much easier to serve a quail per head. If you want to prepare this quail recipe with sparkling wine and black truffle for your family and do not want to exceed on the calories, proteins and fats, accompany them with a double side-dish: cooked vegetables and raw vegetables for a good well-balanced meal.

What's the right wine ?

We pair this quail recipe with the same rosé sparkling wine used in cooking.