wild game Recipes

Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

This old-fashioned recipe for mincemeat contains ground meat and suet, but don't worry, it doesn't taste meaty. It's very rich and delicious, and makes the most delicious mince pies, tarts, and pastries. This is a traditional mincemeat, echoing the flavors of Christmas and Yule tables of many centuries past!

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Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

This old-fashioned recipe for mincemeat contains ground meat and suet, but don't worry, it doesn't taste meaty. It's very rich and delicious, and makes the most delicious mince pies, tarts, and pastries. This is a traditional mincemeat, echoing the flavors of Christmas and Yule tables of many centuries past!

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Venison Burgers with Bacon, White Cheddar, & Caramelized Sweet Onion

Venison Burgers with Bacon, White Cheddar, & Caramelized Sweet Onion

This venison burger, with crispy bacon, melted white cheddar, & caramelized sweet onion, has bacon added in the ground meat mixture... so smoky & juicy!

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Five Alarm Venison or Beef Chili (pressure-canning recipe)

Five Alarm Venison or Beef Chili (pressure-canning recipe)

Canning venison chili is a great way to preserve the flavor of fall, & ensures you have almost instant delicious homemade dinners on hand. This zesty, spicy chili is great on its own or as a foundation ingredient for many other quick and easy meals. You can also substitute ground beef, pork, goat, elk, bear… almost any large game animal that has a listed USDA-approved home canning processing time for ground meat should work. Do not substitute ground poultry like chicken, turkey, or game birds, or meat substitutes if you are canning this chili.

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Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

This old-fashioned recipe for mincemeat contains ground meat and suet, but don't worry, it doesn't taste meaty. It's very rich and delicious, and makes the most delicious mince pies, tarts, and pastries. This is a traditional mincemeat, echoing the flavors of Christmas and Yule tables of many centuries past!

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Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

Traditional Beef or Venison Mincemeat

This old-fashioned recipe for mincemeat contains ground meat and suet, but don't worry, it doesn't taste meaty. It's very rich and delicious, and makes the most delicious mince pies, tarts, and pastries. This is a traditional mincemeat, echoing the flavors of Christmas and Yule tables of many centuries past!

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Venison Burgers with Bacon, White Cheddar, & Caramelized Sweet Onion

Venison Burgers with Bacon, White Cheddar, & Caramelized Sweet Onion

This venison burger, with crispy bacon, melted white cheddar, & caramelized sweet onion, has bacon added in the ground meat mixture... so smoky & juicy!

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Venison Leberknödel Dumplings

Venison Leberknödel Dumplings

This traditional recipe is a great way to enjoy an often overlooked but incredibly nutritious part of wild game. If you don't have access to venison liver, you can substitute beef, pork, or chicken livers in this recipe. After poaching, you can serve them as a side or main, or in a bowl with the poaching broth as a warming soup.

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Spaghetti Sauce with Meat and Mushrooms (pressure-canning large-batch recipe)

Spaghetti Sauce with Meat and Mushrooms (pressure-canning large-batch recipe)

This homemade spaghetti sauce canning recipe is flavored with meat and mushrooms, for a traditional Italian ragu that is a perfect pantry staple. It’s a versatile foundation sauce that is great served on pasta or polenta, in lasagna, stuffed shells, ziti or other baked casseroles, and more. This meaty mushroom ragu is adapted from and and based on a tested USDA spaghetti sauce canning recipe. I’ve scaled this up to a double batch that fills my pressure canner [https://amzn.to/3XSHVIM] (18-19 pints, and sometimes a bit of leftover sauce to enjoy right away). You can of course make a smaller batch if you prefer… just halve all the quantities listed.

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Cheese Grits with Venison Summer Sausage and Chocolate Red-Eye Gravy

Cheese Grits with Venison Summer Sausage and Chocolate Red-Eye Gravy

You can substitute beef or other spicy summer sausage for the venison. This one has cheddar and jalapeno in the sausage, but use what you can get. You can use regular summer sausage to tone down the heat or cut back on the Cajun seasoning.

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