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#11 Thu 22 Nov 12 11:11pm
@nGoose1
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Re: I hope this is in the right place. Venison for christmas..?
I cooked a 4kg Roe, leg, last month. Roasted like beef. 30 min high heat sizzle, then down to a lower heat.Lots of bacon over the top (real pig lots of back fat). studded it with bacon and thyme. Great results.
Venison has litle fat, so it needs to have some to prevent drying out.That said if the beast had been hung/dry aged it would of been much better.
Don't marinade it. As Hugh Fearnley Whitingstall points out, this pickles the meat. Wine is great for flavour, but it is a myth that wine based marinades are helpfull in any way.
Check out Hugh for all things venison.
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#12 Sat 01 Dec 12 8:33am
Ladybee1602
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Re: I hope this is in the right place. Venison for christmas..?
I've got a venison fillet that I was considering doing a 'Wellington'. Smothered with pate and a creamy pepper cheese then wrapped in puff pastry.
Any idea if this will work?
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#13 Sat 01 Dec 12 5:27pm
hippytea
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Re: I hope this is in the right place. Venison for christmas..?
Have never done anything like this, but it sounds possible. Beef Wellington is usually done with fillet, which is lean and inclined to be dry like venison is. It seems like a good bet that what works with beef fillet might work with venison too.
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#14 Sun 02 Dec 12 4:24pm
BritFinn
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Re: I hope this is in the right place. Venison for christmas..?
I haven't been on for a while (presures of school/family etc), so I've only just seen this.
If I were choosing I would either go for a fillet of venison, and cook it like fillet steak. But that's not a big cut (nowhere near the size of a beef filet), so I personally would choose to cook a leg. There is a fantastic Jamie recipe which I cooked a couple of years back for New Years Eve, here is the link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic … routs.html
I've cooked this a couple of times now, and what I now choose to do, is to bone out the leg, then tie it back in, so that you get the benifites of cooking on the bone, but then it's really easy to carve later!
I hope you enjoy it
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