Complement your venison recipe
with delicious sauces, the perfect wine or cheese, and unique side dishes.
Wine
Wine with Venison Steaks and
Chops. We suggest a fine Pinot
Noir with deer venison prime cuts
such as steaks and chops. Be sure to let it breathe ten minutes in the bottle
before serving and a good serving temperature is from room temp to 54 degrees F.
Wine with Venison Summer
Sausage. If you are tailgating or trail riding, take along some
venison summer sausage with a Boar's Head White
Cheddar Cheese (softer) orManchaca
Goat Cheese (harder) and some
fresh baked Pillsbury Crusty
French Bread [on the shelf with
the refrigerated rolls of biscuits.] Select a polished Proseco
wine which is bubbly and sharp.
(It's the wine all the Tuscan folks take with them to picnic in Italy.) Martini
and Rossi Vintners make a very fine Proseco wine.
Condiments, Sauces and
Accompaniments
Your imagination and taste buds are
all that limit you in cooking creatively and deliciously with venison.
Let's take a page from master chef
Stephan Pyles of Stephan
Pyles Restaurant in
Dallas: In his cookbook, "The New Texas Cuisine," he lists these mouthwatering
recipes:
Black Buck Antelope with Smothered
Onions and Sweet
Potato Tamales.
Carpaccio of Black Buck antelope
with Cascabel Chile Aioli.
Coriander-Cured Loin
of Venison with Sweet
Onion Confit and Tomatillo
Fritters.
Smoked Rabbit-Black
Bean Tostadas with Goat
Cheese-Roast Garlic Cream
Southwestern Venison Burger
Venison Chili
with Texas Goat Cheese
Venison Picadillo
Venison Steaks with Cranberry-Chipotle
Sauce and Saffron-Risotto
Cakes
Venison Tamales
with Cranberries and Pecans
Wild Boar, Pineapple,
and Tamarind Stew with Cilantro
Rice Ring
Grilled Squab with
Caramelized Bananas and Mango
Quesadillas
Jalapeno-Stuffed Smoke Dove with Drunken
Beans, Three Potato
Salad, and Rosy Relish
Molasses-Grilled Quail with Horseradish-Turnip
Puree and Tomatillo-Jalapeno
Chutney
Pheasant Braised in Tequila
with Peaches
Roast Pheasant with Oyster-Pecan
Dressing
Seared Quail with Sweet
Potato Pancakes, Muscat Wine, and Jicama-Orange
Relish
Smoked Pheasant
Salad with Jicama and Goat Cheese.
In her book, "Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle," Barbara Kingsolver suggests that the very best
accompaniments are those items that live and grow together, both in the same
neighborhood and/or in the same season. Perhaps this is why Turkey
and Pecan Pie go so well
together. That is why Venison and Stephan Pyles' Tamales
with Cranberries and Pecans go
well together, or venison and
sweet potatoes.