TIME FOR THE EXPERIMENTS: VENISON

I was invited to butcher a deer, shot by a colleague from my husbands workplace.  As a thank you for my help I now have a freezer full of half of the deer.  I don't have a huge experience of butchering deer or cooking it so now that it's cut and in my freezer I figure it's time for some experiments with the meat.


Venison and Bacon Burgers

Makes servings USMetricAdjust Recipe (Help)

1 clove of garlic, minced or chopped finely

400g minced venison

6 slices of cooked and cooled bacon (keeping the bacon fat in the pan to cook the burgers in)

Salt and Pepper to taste

 

I followed the same rules for venison that I apply to my beef burgers by keeping them very simple. I don't like adding too much to my burgers and very rarely add eggs and breadcrumbs as some recipes dictate. I added the bacon to help add fat and garlic because I really like garlic in my burgers! 

 

 I used the mincer on my Kitchenaid using the coarse grinder plate and minced the meat once.  I was careful not to over mix the meat and simply hand mixed until everything was incorporated.  I shaped them into 4 burgers and cooked in the pan with the fat from the bacon in it. 
 

Review

The burgers were delicious!  They had a mild gamey flavour, which was very pleasing.  They were moist and will certainly feature on my plate again! 

Next experiment is a Venison Pie? Possibly a raised pie with a cranberry top!!  Watch this space.....