Moose dishes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Today, elk meat is gaining more and more popularity among hunters. It should be said that the carcass of this animal is butchered in the same way as cows. At the same time, the meat is first kept in herbs, then marinated under pressure, only then you can cook various dishes from elk (for frying, they take the dorsal and kidney parts, as well as the pulp from the hind legs).

Moose meat is consumed in the cold season (autumn, winter), as in other periods it contains a lot of fiber and is not suitable for eating. In winter, it is frozen, for this it is suspended in the open air for several hours, and during the thaw period it is s alted.

Let's look at a few recipes for preparing elk dishes.

Moose hunting

Ingredients: half a kilo of elk meat, one tablespoon of vinegar, one hundred grams of pork fat, fifty grams of fat, fifty grams of tomato puree, six cloves of garlic, one onion, juice of one lemon.

The meat is soaked in a solution of vinegar, stuffed with garlic, bacon and fried in fat,s alting and adding spices. Then add chopped onion, tomato puree and continue to fry. After that, the meat is placed in a bowl, poured with broth, lemon juice, sugar are added and stewed until it is cooked.

Moose soup

Ingredients: seven hundred grams of elk meat, one white and one red onion each, two liters of boiling water, two potatoes, one carrot, two stalks of celery, one fennel root, three tablespoons of flour, two tablespoons of paprika, herbs, s alt and spices, vegetable oil for frying.

The meat is cut into large pieces, the onion is chopped, everything is fried in oil, with a little s alt. Then boiled water, chopped potatoes and carrots are added to the first dishes of elk (in our case, this is soup), boiled for fifteen minutes. Then finely chopped celery and fennel are added.

Separately fry flour and paprika in oil, pour the mixture into the soup and cook for five minutes. Chopped greens are placed in the finished dish.

Moose kebab

Ingredients: one kilogram of elk meat, one hundred grams of pork fat, three onions, one glass of white wine, s alt and spices, herbs.

The loin is cut into large pieces, placed in a bowl, poured with wine and allowed to stand for several hours. Then the meat is strung on skewers, alternating with bacon and onions, s alted, sprinkled with spices and fried over hot coals for fifteen minutes. Usually such elk dishes are sprinkled with herbs before serving.

Goulash

Ingredients: one kilogram of elk meat, one hundred grams of fatpork, four cloves of garlic, one onion, half a spoonful of ground pepper, one and a half glasses of water, one spoonful of starch, s alt.

How to cook moose? It is necessary to fry meat, lard, onion and garlic in a pan, adding pepper and s alt, for five minutes, then pour in water and simmer for two hours. Then stir water with starch, add the mixture to the meat and cook for a few more minutes until the starch thickens.

Thus, in recent years, elk meat has gained great popularity among hunters. It is easy to prepare, and the dishes from it are not only appetizing, but also quite tasty.