Instructions: Cook the onion, garlic, celery, carrot and thyme in the oil until soft but not brown. Crumble the cotechino sausage into the onion mix with the sage and fry for 10 minutes. Add the chicken liver and cook for a further 2 minutes. Add the wine, and boil to reduce by half. Season with salt and pepper, allow to cool then fold in enough breadcrumbs to bind the stuffing.

Stuff the birds, and wrap each in two slices of prosciutto. Preheat the oven to its hottest setting.

Heat the olive oil in a pan and cook the garlic, onion, thyme and chopped mushrooms until the onion is softening. Add the mushroom juice and cook until no liquid remains.

In a roasting pan, heat some olive oil and brown the birds on each side.

Roast in the hot oven for 10 minutes, turn the birds and roast for a further 5 minutes with the mushroom mix and the wine.

Remove the birds and keep warm. Stir the juices in the pan and add a little butter to enrich the sauce. Serve the birds with polenta and pangrattato.

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