Aromatic Grouse

Ingredients

• 3 young grouse, claws removed, rinsed and dried with kitchen paper
• 250ml shaohsing rice wine or dry sherry
• 250ml light soy sauce
• 2 piece of dried mandarin peel (available from Asian grocers)
• 2 garlic cloves, bruised
• 3 star anise
• 2 spring onions
• 5cm piece ginger
• 1 cassia bark or cinnamon
• 100g rock sugar or caster sugar
• 1litre water
• 300g dark brown sugar
• 100 ml rice wine vinegar
• 50ml shaohsing rice wine
• 50ml peanut oil
• 3 spring onions white part, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 15ml shaohsing wine
• 15ml rice wine vinegar
• 2 tbs. maldon sea salt
• 2 tbs. caster sugar
• 5 tbsp plum sauce
• 2 tbsp whisky
• 3 tbsp olive oil