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Grilled quail with sour cherries, toasted walnuts and ras el-hanout (recipes) and tractus corticobulbaris (medicine)


Grilled quail with sour cherries, toasted walnuts and ras el-hanout (recipes)








Serves 6



Preparation time

30 mins to 1 hour



Cooking time

10 to 30 mins

















Ingredients



6 organic, free range quail, spatchcocked (you can ask your local butcher to do this for you)2 tbsp ras el-hanout250ml/8¾fl oz homemade chicken stock 175g/6¼oz sour cherries (available at wholefood and speciality Food stores), softened in a little warm water150g/5¼oz walnuts, lightly toasted in the oven2 tbsp tamaricouple of large handfuls of spinach, wilted in a pansalt and freshly ground black pepper



Method



1. An hour before Cooking, massage the ras el-hanout into the skin of the quail and leave to allow to marinate. 2. Preheat the grill. Season the quail with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper and place under hot grill, skin side up. Cook for approximately 5-6 minutes or longer depending on the heat of your grill, until they are cooked but still pink and juicy. Remove and set aside. 3. While the quail is grilling, begin to make the sauce. Place the chicken stock in a saucepan and reduce by one-third. Add the cherries, walnuts and tamari and season well with freshly ground black pepper.4. Cook for a few more minutes then add the spinach and remove from the heat straight away.5. To serve, place the quails on a plate and spoon sauce over top.



tractus corticobulbaris (medicine)


tractus corticobulbaris -->
corticobulbar tract
<physiology> Collective term for those fibres (corticonuclear fibres) which separate from the corticospinal tract in the course of the latter's descent through the pons and medulla oblongata.

Fibres of this tract innervate the motor nuclei of the trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nerves (perhaps also the nucleus ambiguus), directly and by way of interneurons in the lateral part of the rhombencephalic tegmentum.

No direct supranuclear cortical innervation of the motor nuclei innervating the external eye muscles (oculomotor, trochlear, abducens) has been identified. Fibres of the corticobulbar tract also project into the formatio reticularis (i.e., corticoreticular fibres) and terminate upon sensory relay nuclei (e.g., gracile and cuneate nuclei, nucleus spinalis trigeminalis and nucleus solitarius).

Synonym: tractus corticobulbaris.