Today, elk meat is gaining more and more popularity among hunters. It should be said that the carcass of this animal is butchering like cows. At the same time, the meat is first aged in herbs, then pickled under pressure, only then you can cook various dishes from moose (for frying, take the back and kidneys, as well as pulp from the hind legs).
Elk meat is consumed in the cold season (autumn, winter), since in another period it contains a lot of fiber and is not suitable for eating. In winter it is frozen, for this it is suspended for several hours in the open air, and during the thaw period it is salted.
Consider several recipes for how to cook moosecake dishes.
Hunting elk
Ingredients: half a kilogram 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, lard and fry in fat, salt and add spices. Next, add onion, sliced in half rings, tomato puree and continue to fry. After that, the meat is put into the dishes, 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 red onion, two liters of boiling water, two potatoes, one carrot, two celery stalks, one fennel root, three tablespoons of flour, two tablespoons of paprika, herbs, salt and spices, vegetable oil for frying .
The meat is cut into large pieces, chopped onion, everything is fried in oil, slightly salted. Then, boiling water, chopped potatoes and carrots are added to the first dishes of elk (in our case, this is soup), cooked for fifteen minutes. Next add finely chopped celery and fennel.
Separately, flour and paprika are fried in oil, the mixture is poured into soup and boiled for five minutes. In the finished dish put chopped greens.
Moose skewers
Ingredients: one kilogram of elk meat, one hundred grams of pork lard, three onions, one glass of white wine, salt 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 it with lard and onions, salted, sprinkled with spices and roasted over hot coals for fifteen minutes. Typically, such dishes from moose are sprinkled with herbs before serving.
Goulash
Ingredients: one kilogram of elk meat, one hundred grams of pork lard, four cloves of garlic, one onion, half a tablespoon of ground pepper, one and a half glasses of water, one spoonful of starch, salt.
How to cook moose? It is necessary to fry the meat, lard, onion and garlic in a pan, adding pepper and salt for five minutes, then pour water and simmer for two hours. Then stir the water with starch, add the mixture to the meat and cook for a few more minutes until the starch thickens.
Thus, elk meat has recently gained great popularity among hunters. It is not difficult to prepare, and dishes from it are obtained not only mouth-watering, but also quite tasty.