BBC Food - Recipes - One pot partridge with bacon and chestnuts

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp juniper berries
• 4 oven-ready partridges
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 25g/1oz butter
• 1 tbsp sunflower oil
• 1 medium onion , finely sliced
• 4 rashers rindless streaky bacon , cut into 2cm/1in slices
• 3-4 bushy sprigs fresh thyme
• 2 tbsp plain flour
• 5 tbsp dry gin
• 100ml/3½fl oz orange juice (about 1 large orange)
• 200ml/7fl oz red wine
• 350ml/12fl oz chicken stock , fresh or made with 1 stock cube
• 2 tbsp cranberry sauce or redcurrant jelly
• 2 tsp finely grated orange zest
• 200g/7oz cooked and peeled chestnuts , halved
• ½ medium Savoy cabbage , tough outer leaves removed