doe stew
with fried medlar
Autumn! Time for game and also for a
"forgotten" fruit: the medlar. Don't be
fooled. If you are to believe most of your
internet hobby chef colleagues, this fruit
has to be as rotten as a... medlar, before you
can do anything with it. Wrong, then. It is
simply a cousin of the apples and pears and
can be treated that way in the kitchen. Put
the fresh fruit in the freezer for a few hours
beforehand and you can use it perfectly and
tastefully afterwards, like in this recipe with
doe stew.
The doe stew. Finely chop onion, leek, celery,
carrot and garlic. Fry in butter. Pour the
preparation into a deep casserole. Make a
fresh bouquet garni of bay leaf, parsley,
rosemary and thyme. Put this in the cooking
pot and pour over with veal stock.
Season with star anise, cloves, crushed juniper
berries, pink peppercorns, nutmeg, mill pepper
and rock salt.
Dust the meat with flour and sear it all around
in a pan with fizzing butter. Add the stew meat
to the preparation in the casserole dish. Add
red wine and simmer for 2 hours over low heat.
Meanwhile: cut celeriac and butternut squash
into brunoise. Clean and quarter brown
mushrooms. Clean pearl onions. Fry each of
these vegetables separately in a little butter
and then add them together. Keep warm. Fry a
piece of petit salé bacon crispy on the outside
and then cut it on juicy dice. Add these to the
fried vegetables. Keep warm.
Make a compote of fresh cranberries with a few
tablespoons of granulated sugar and a dash of
water.
Cut a few stew apples on slices, remove the
core and fry them on both sides in hot butter.
Dust with cinnamon powder and cassonade
sugar. Put away warm. Keep the casserole with
baking scones.
Remove the cooked meat from the stew and
keep warm. Press the stew through a chinoise
(sieve) and add cream, a few strips of dark
chocolate and a few spoons of cranberry
compote. Thicken the sauce if desired. Add the
preparation of celeriac, pumpkin, pearl onions,
brown mushrooms and bacon. Mix everything
with the venison and bring to temperature.
The medlars. Wash the medlars and put them
in a bag in the freezer a few hours before.
When they are deep-frozen, put them in a
glass jar and put them in the microwave for 4 to
5 minutes until they are thawed and half
cooked.
red wine
celeriac
butternut squash
brown mushrooms
pearl onions
bacon (petit salé)
cranberries
granulated sugar
apples
cinnamon powder
brown sugar
cream
dark chocolate
medlars
potato croquettes
onion
leek
celery
carrots
garlic
butter
bouquet garni
veal stock
star anise
clove
juniper berries
pink peppercorns
pepper and salt
doe stew
plain flour
Ingredient
quantities
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only
listed
when
absolutely
necessary.
Making
the
right
choices
when
following
a
recipe,
with
your
fiery
passion
for
cooking,
that's
creative cooking
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