Venison back steak with fig sauce

AUTHOR
Isreal Robertson
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 package Croquette powder (for 0.375 l liquid)
  • 600 g Brussels sprouts
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 30 g clarified butter
  • 3 Figs
  • 200 ml dry red wine
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Currant Jelly
  • 1 TEASPOON Cornstarch
  • 1 knife tip ground cinnamon
  • 1 knife tip ground
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cardamom
  • 4 (150 g each) Saddle of venison steaks
  • 4 discs Bacon
  • 7-10 Tbsp Steak pepper
  • 500 g white cooking fat
  • 7-10 Tbsp Mint
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewers

Directions

  1. 1

    Stir the croquette powder into 3/8 litres of cold water and leave to swell for 10 minutes. Form finger-thick croquettes from the dough with moistened hands. Clean and wash the Brussels sprouts and remove a few leaves from the heads as desired.

  2. 2

    Cook cabbage heads in salted water with 10 g clarified butter for about 15 minutes. Blanch the leaves in the vegetable water shortly before the end of the cooking time. Cut 2 figs in half and remove the flesh. Bring red wine, redcurrant jelly and fig flesh to the boil and let it boil down for 5 minutes.

  3. 3

    Stir the starch in a little water until smooth and thicken the sauce. Season to taste with cinnamon and cardamom. Wrap 1 slice of bacon around each steak and fix with wooden sticks. Heat the rest of the clarified butter in a pan and fry the steaks for about 8 minutes.

  4. 4

    Occasionally turning. Season with salt and pepper. Heat the cooking fat to 180°C and fry the croquettes in portions until golden brown. Drain the Brussels sprouts and leaves. Cut remaining figs into slices.

  5. 5

    Arrange everything on plates and garnish with fig and mint.