RECIPE: Venison and veg casserole
PUBLISHED: 12:45 29 May 2020 | UPDATED: 13:43 29 May 2020
An easy, warming venison casserole recipe - comfort food at its finest!
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This venison casserole recipe is so easy to chuck together and makes the perfect week-night family meal - healthy, hearty, and full of goodness!
Venison is free range, lean, antibiotic free, sustainable, ethical... need we go on?Venison and vegetable casserole recipe - serves 5 (courtesy of West London Shooting School)
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 3 – 3.50 hrs
Ingredients:
2 X celery Sticks, thickly sliced
1 X onion chopped
2 X chunky carrots, halved lengthways then sliced
5 X bay leaves
2 X thyme springs, 1 whole and 1 leaves picked
1 X tbsp vegetable oil
1 X tbsp butter
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2 X tbsp plain flour
2 X tbsp tomato puree
2 X tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 X beef stock cubes, crumbled
900g X Venison cut into large chunks
Cooking method:
* Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and put the kettle on.
* Put 2 thickly sliced celery sticks, 1 chopped onion, 2 chunkily sliced carrots, 5 bay leaves and 1 whole thyme sprig in a flameproof casserole dish with 1 tbsp vegetable oil and 1 tbsp butter.
* Soften for 10 mins, then stir in 2 tbsp plain flour until it doesn’t look dusty anymore, followed by 2 tbsp tomato purée, 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce and 2 crumbled beef stock cubes.
* Gradually stir in 600ml hot water, then tip in 900g venison and bring to a gentle simmer.
* Cover and put in the oven for 2hrs 30 mins, then uncover and cook for 30mins – 1hr more until the meat is tender and the sauce is thickened.
* Garnish with the picked leaves of the remaining thyme sprig.
