Venison ragout

AUTHOR
Avis Adkins
DIFFICULTY
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 3 Onions
  • 150 g Carrots
  • 150 g Celeriac
  • 1 (à 1.2 kg) Boneless leg of venison
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Tomato paste
  • 300 ml Red wine
  • 400 ml Game fund
  • 5 Juniper berries
  • 1 TEASPOON Peppercorns
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1 untreated orange (peel thinly peeled)
  • 1 Branch rosemary
  • 1 Stalk Thyme
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Cranberries (glass)
  • 7-10 Tbsp dark sauce thickener

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean the vegetables and cut into large pieces. Cut meat into 3-4 cm cubes. Dab meat dry and salt it. Heat the oil in a large pot and fry the meat in it in portions, remove.

  2. 2

    Fry the vegetables vigorously in the frying fat.

  3. 3

    Add tomato paste, red wine and game stock and add the meat again. Stir in juniper berries, peppercorns and bay leaf. Bring to the boil, cover and braise for 1:15 hours over medium heat.

  4. 4

    Add the orange zest, rosemary and thyme and braise for another 15 minutes.

  5. 5

    Remove the meat from the sauce with a kitchen fork. Pour the sauce through a sieve into another pot, add the cranberries. Bind the sauce only slightly with sauce thickener according to the instructions on the packet and put the meat back into the sauce.

Categories & Tags

Main Dishesheartyvery easy