Christmas recipe: quails in mandarin sauce and honey

            

Are you tired of eating the same food at Christmas? Do not worry. I am going to propose you a different dish to this day so special. When you think about Christmas dishes do not need to choose always the most expensive products of marked like for example the typical seafood. There are many ingredients that we usually use in our kitchen and we can give them a festive touch like these quails in mandarin sauce and honey.

Ingredients (for two people):

- 2 or 4 clean quails

- 2 medium mandarins

- 1/2 cup of broth

- 1/2 cup of white wine

- 2 tablespoons of honey

- 2 French onions

- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch

- pepper
- salt

- extra virgin olive oil.

Elaboration:

1. Wash and peel mandarins. Remove all the white part of the skin and chop into thin strips. Put in a saucepan with a finger of water, boil and strain. Repeat the operation. Replace the skins in a saucepan with honey and a pinch of salt. Heat over medium heat 2 minutes.

2. Add broth, wine and juice of the mandarins. Incorporate the onions cut into quarters, giving a blow pepper and cook over low heat 15 minutes. Peel while the remaining segments of the tangerine. Add to the sauce. Dissolve the cornstarch in cold water and then add to thicken.

3. Tie the quails' legs and cook them with a little olive oil in a frying pan or grilled until they are well browned on all sides. Serve with hot sauce to taste.

Elaboration time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: Easy