Your best venison recipe?

[chickenpatty]

My guys got a deer this afternoon. Any tips for preparing it? I don't know what piece is what - there are just chunks of meat in the cooler.

 

Thanks!

[MomtoCandJ]

Venison burger, grind it up and use just like ground beef.

[chickenpatty]

Venison burger, grind it up and use just like ground beef.

 

I don't have a grinder. Would a food processor work? Wouldn't I need to add some fat to it?

[MomtoCandJ]

Not sure about the food processor does it have a grinder attachment? Depends on where you live if you need to add fat. Dh says if you need to cut the meat up into about 1 inch chunks to freeze it until you can a grinder. We got ours for 50 or 60 dollars at Walmart. If you have to freeze then grind dh said to thaw only partway.

[plansrme]

If you want to make it into patties, you would probably need to add fat to it. Otherwise, ground, it is great in chili and similar dishes that use ground beef. I have ground elk in my freezer right now, and you've never seen such good-looking ground meat--nary a speck of fat to be seen, and when you brown it, it comes out so smooth and finely textured, not in big chunks like even the leanest ground beef. It makes my family's favorite chili. Otherwise, a go-to recipe is a chunk of venison in the crock-pot with Lipton onion soup mix over it. I used to cook venison parts--I just don't remember what parts or exactly how I cooked them--after marinating them in Italian dressing. There was slightly more to it than that, but you could probably find it if you Googled. My recollection is that it involved separating out parts of the hind quarter? But it's probably been 15 years since I've cooked it like that--I don't really know what I'm talking about.

 

Terri

[MomtoCandJ]

We have used the cubes to make venison stew (like beef stew) and there is a way to can it but I'll have to get the recipe from dmil tomorrow.