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I need some recipes for ground venison other than chili or burgers.The wife enjoys my chili but she said she would like something different.

Thanks
Doug

I do meatloaf, tacos, goolosh (canned corn, tomatoes, beans, etc. thrown in with ground meat), quesadillas, spaghettie, pizza (had some last night), and many others. I'll never purcahse ground beef again more than likely. Simply substitute ground venison with any ground beef with any dish.

I'd highly suggest you pick up a copy of Eileen Clark's (wife of Johnny B on the 'Fire here) wild game cookbook. She has numerous outstanding wild game recipes that I enjoy.

Sloppy Joes...

For meatloaf, just use a ground beef recipe, and add a couple of glugs of olive oil to keep it from drying out. Hamburger helper if you're in a hurry. Stuffed peppers once the garden gets going. I don't stuff the peppers though, I fry them with the meat, onions and garlic, mix them with the tomato sauce, and top the whole thing with mozz.

Shepards pie

Eileen's meat loaf recipe has never been dry for me and I use 100% venison...

Any thing you can do with beef ground you can do with venison ground...only healthier!

We make a lot of soups out of our ground venison. I just brown it with a little seasoning and throw it in the crock pot with spuds, carrots, kidney beans, canned tomatoes and whatever is in the pantry.

A lot of it goes into tacos, too. Probably half!

Welcome to the fire Silverstar!

Thank you Mr. Dvdegeorge. I just got here. Someone told me about this site from our hunting-washington forum. Looks huge. I was looking for a place to introduce myself, but maybe you don't have that here? Looking forward to hearing some stories, and getting some wild game recipes!

Try this:
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/Wil...ipe/tabid/5679/Default.aspx#venisonpizza

I recommend the shepherds pie

Make small (1.5" diameter) meatballs.

Sweat some dice onions in a saute pan until translucent, then brown the meatballs.

Add some mushrooms if you like for a couple minutes, then add some gravy mix. Simmer for awhile, just don't let it stick.

Serve over noodles.

Cheap, easy, good, requires no talent or thought.

Here's a good one.

Sarmales (Romanian Sour Cabbage Rolls)

Filling:
Brown about 10 strips of diced bacon, a yellow onion, and 2 pounds of your ground venison. Mix this with equal parts cooked brown rice by volume and set aside.

Wrappers:
Cut the core out of one head of cabbage. In a large stock pot of water, add 1 tbsp pickling spice, 1/4 c salt, 1/2 c sugar, 1/2 c vinegar. Bring to a boil. Add the head of cabbage and boil for about 5 minutes. Disassemble the cabbage, keeping the leaves as large and whole as possible. Put it back into the water just long enough that the leaves are rubbery and pliable, but not mushy (about five minutes at 3,000 feet above sea level). Drain.

Fill:
Roll the ground meat up into the cabbage leaves to make rolls roughly one inch in diameter and three inches long.

Preheat oven to 375 F.
Layer the remaining cabbage in the bottom of a baking dish so that you have about 1/4 inch of coverage (if you run out don't worry about it.)

Evenly arrange your rolls in layers over the rest of the cabbage. Lay a few strips of raw bacon across your rolls (4).

Sauce:
One quart of home canned tomatoes in sauce or two 14 ounce cans of diced canned tomatoes.
add:
1/2 cup white wine, and one tablespoon smoked strong paprika.

Pour your sauce over the rolls, just until they are covered (add a little water if you come up short.)

Bake in the oven until the sauce has been reduced to about halfway down the top layer of rolls. (~ 2 hours)

Serve with sour cream.

Hamburger Steak with ground venison.

We like ours mixed 50/50 with lean ground beef. Mash out some patties as thin as you can possibly make them. Then chop some onion very fine. Take one patty and sprinkle with the onion and a little garlic salt and course ground black pepper. Take a second patty, place it on top of first patty and seal the edges. Grill the steak patties and serve with brown gravy and mash potatoes. A family favorite.

ground venison makes killer burritos.

I just substitute ground venison for ground beef in almost any recipe. Sometimes I mix in a small amount of high fat content beef, pork or bacon (sometimes even breakfast sausage) if I'm worried about dryness. I'll have to give olive oil a try next time. Meatloaf and Shepard's Pie are family favorites, but just plain ole burgers are great. I prefer fine diced venison instead of ground for chili and coarsely diced for stew. Just lightly brown first.