Perfect Grilled Venison Medallions With Blackcurrant Gastrique Recipes

GRILLED VENISON TENDERLOIN MEDALLIONS RECIPE

Steps:

• Slice the tenderloin, if not already done. Place the medallions on a plate and coat all over with EVOO, salt, and pepper. Allow the steaks to sit for approximately 30 minutes.
• Prepare your sauce while the venison sits. In a saucepan, heat the butter and oil over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, herbs, and mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms are just wilted. Add the wine and reduce by half. Add the stock and reduce again by half. Stir in the mustard for about 30 seconds. Season the sauce with salt and pepper. Turn the burner to low just to keep the sauce warm.
• Preheat your Foreman Grill to high. Place the venison on the hot grill plate and close the top. Grill for 1 minute. Turn the meat over and grill for another 30 to 60 seconds, depending on how rare you like it. Be careful not to overcook the meat. Remove the cooked venison to a cutting board and allow it to rest a few minutes before slicing.
• Slice the venison and serve with mushroom sauce over the top. This is good with a vegetable mash, such as winter squash or cauliflower, and some sautéed or grilled greens. A recipe for Acorn squash mash follows the venison recipes.

MEDALLIONS OF VENISON WITH BRAMBLE JELLY OR BLACKBERRIES

Steps:

• Fry enough bacon very gently to extract enough fat to fry the medallions. Remove the bacon. Put enough well-seasoned flour into a plastic bag and toss the venison in it; remove and lay on some greaseproof paper.
• Heat the bacon fat and fry the meat on a medium heat for 5 to 7 minutes, turning frequently. Put them in a warmed dish with a teaspoon of jelly on each medallion and keep warm while you make the sauce.
• If you are using blackberries instead of jelly, cook them lightly in a little red wine and sugar to taste. Spoon over the medallions as for the jelly.
• Depending on how much you are cooking, add enough of the stock to the pan. Boil briskly, stirring all the juices together. When it starts to look syrupy, mix in enough sour cream to make a rich sauce. Adjust the seasoning. Pour over the venison.
• Serve with tiny Brussels sprouts and egg noodles with chestnuts if handy. Apple sauce can also be added as a side dish.

VENISON MEDALLIONS WITH BLACKBERRY SAGE SAUCE

Steps:

• To make the sauce, combine wine and shallot in a medium saucepan and bring to boil. Cook until liquid is reduced to about half a cup. Add berries and return liquid to a simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, until berries are soft, about 15 minutes. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sauce coats the back of a spoon, about 15 minutes.
• Strain the sauce and return it to the pan. Whisk in butter, one tablespoon at a time. Add salt, pepper and honey. Add sage to sauce and steep for 15 to 20 minutes, or until ready to use. Keep warm. Remove the sage sprigs just before serving.
• Season the venison with salt and pepper. In a large saute pan, heat oil to nearly smoking. Carefully place the medallions in pan and saute for three minutes, being careful not to crowd the pan. Turn and cook to medium rare, about two minutes. Repeat as necessary to brown all medallions.
• To serve, spoon sauce on warm individual serving plates. Place two medallions in center of each plate.

GRILLED MEDALLIONS OF VENISON WITH BLACK-BEAN PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a nonreactive dish large enough to accommodate the meat in one layer, combine the yogurt, hoisin sauce, garlic, gingerroot and pepper, and add the medallions, turning to coat them on all sides. Cover and refrigerate for two to three days, turning twice during this time.
• For the pancakes, place half of the beans in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel chopping blade. Pour in the water and Sherry and process until smooth. Add the eggs, process until blended, then scrape the mixture into a bowl. Stir in the remaining beans, scallions, garlic, sesame seeds, oil, gingerroot, Tabasco sauce and salt. Sprinkle the flour onto the mixture, a tablespoon at a time, beating it with a fork until blended.
• Turn your oven to warm. Lightly grease a large, heavy skillet with oil and heat until it is hot. Pour in one tablespoon of the batter for each pancake. Cook them over medium-high heat until the edges begin to brown, about 30 to 45 seconds. Turn with a spatula and cook the second side for 30 seconds. Transfer the cooked pancakes to a warm plate, loosely cover it and place it in the oven. Continue until all the batter has been used.
• Heat a well-seasoned cast-iron or heavy skillet until it is very hot. Add enough oil to lightly film the pan. Place only as many medallions in the pan as will fit comfortably without crowding. Cook the meat over high heat for about four to four-and-a-half minutes on the first side, turn and cook three-and-a-half to four minutes on the second side for medium-rare. Transfer the meat to heated plates. Serve with three to four pancakes. Slice the reserved scallion tops and use them as garnish.

PAN-FRIED VENISON WITH BLACKBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a frying pan, cook the venison for 5 mins, then turn over and cook for 3-5 mins more, depending on how rare you like it and the thickness of the meat (cook for 5-6 mins on each side for well done). Lift the meat from the pan and set aside to rest.
• Add the balsamic vinegar to the pan, then pour in the stock, redcurrant jelly and garlic. Stir over quite a high heat to blend everything together, then add the blackberries and carry on cooking until they soften. Serve with the venison, celeriac mash (see below) and broccoli.

GRILLED VENISON

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients.
• Soak venison steaks at least 48 hours.
• Cook on the grill.

"GRILLED" VENISON BURGERS

Steps:

• In bowl, mix dry ingredients.
• Add venison and mix well.
• Add liquid ingredients and mix well with a fork, until bread crumbs are barely noticeable.
• On plastic wrap, form into 8 (4 ounce) patties, making them round and very flat-- like a fast-food burger.
• They can be cooked immediately, but I prefer to freeze them first.
• Place them on a large cookie sheet and freeze them several hours.
• Remove from freezer and place waxed paper between each burger as you stack them.
• I stack them in 2 1-quart freezer zip-lock bags.
• Preheat cast iron skillet to very hot.
• Cook frozen burgers until they are slightly charred on one side (about 3-4 minutes) and then turn and cook until the other side is slightly charred and burgers are medium-well.
• Do not overcook.
• Turn burner off and leave burgers in the pan while you put condiments on your hamburger bun.
• If cooking thawed burgers, cook about 2-3 minutes per side.