Venison Casserole Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Spread mashed potatoes evenly in a 2-quart casserole dish; set aside. Brown the venison in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crumbly and no longer pink, set aside.
• Heat the canola oil in the skillet, then stir in the red onion, garlic, celery, and red bell pepper. Cook until the onion has softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in cooked venison, and season with Worcestershire, salt, and pepper. Spoon mixture onto potatoes in the casserole dish.
• Stir together eggs and cottage cheese in a small bowl; spread evenly over meat mixture. Top with tomato slices, and sprinkle with cheese.
• Bake, uncovered, in preheated oven until set, about 20 minutes.

Steps:

• Turn on the oven to 170c.
• Melt half the butter in a large lidded casserole.
• Fry the finely diced onion, celery and garlic until softened.
• Add the mushrooms (halved or quartered), borlotti beans and carrots and fry for a further two minutes.
• Add the flour and stir until the butter is absorbed by the flour and the contents of the pan are coated, cook for another two minutes.
• Add the red wine, chopped herbs, bay leaf, redcurrant jelly and crumble in the stock cube, add salt and pepper to taste, stir well leave to simmer.
• Melt the remaining butter in a small frying pan and brown the cubed venison, this should be done as briefly as possible so that the meat does not lose it's tenderness.
• Add the meat to the casserole, put the lid on and place in the middle of the oven.
• After half an hour turn the oven down to 130c and leave to cook for 2-3 hours, check periodically and add more water if needed.

Steps:

• Combine onions, carrots, bay leaves and vinegar in saucepan. Boil and pour over meat. Let marinate overnight. Drain and dry meat and vegetables.
• Mix meat and vegetables with flour and season with salt and pepper. Heat some clarified butter in large saucepan. When hot, add venison and brown, then add onions and carrots and brown. Add bay leaves.
• Heat tomato puree in separate small saucepan until brown. Add puree to meat and vegetables. To this, add most of the red wine and 2 tablespoons red currant jelly. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 1 hour.
• Transfer meat and vegetables to heated serving dish. Mix arrowroot with remaining red wine and add to boiling gravy to thicken. Add lemon juice. Nap meat and vegetables with gravy, garnish with lemon slices, cream and remaining jelly. Dust with parsley.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Fry the vegetables in a little oil and butter in a heavy-based casserole for 4-5 mins until golden. Tip in the garlic and fry for a further min, then set aside.
• Put the venison into a plastic bag with seasoned flour and shake to coat. Add a little more oil and butter to the pan, then fry the venison over a high heat, stirring now and then, until well browned. Don't crowd the pan - cook in batches if necessary. Set aside with the vegetables.
• Add the redcurrant jelly and wine to the pan, and bring to the boil, scraping up all the bits that have stuck to the bottom. Pour in the stock, then add the thyme, bay leaf, meat and vegetables. Season if you like and bring to the boil. Cover and transfer to the oven for about 1½ hrs or until tender. Remove from the oven and check the seasoning.

Steps:

• The day before, mix together the marinade ingredients and add the cubed venison to the mixture. Leave this, covered, in the fridge overnight.
• The next day, fry the onions in a little olive oil, add the marinated venison chunks bit by bit and fry until they have changed colour. Transfer these to a casserole dish and add the marinade. Lower the heat to allow the meat to cook very slowly. Meanwhile . . .
• Wash the Beluga lentils in cold water then put them in a saucepan and add water just to cover them. Cook them until they are almost soft. Drain them, reserving the liquid they have cooked in as you may need to add some to the casserole if it looks a little dry at any time during its hour of slow cooking.
• Add the carrot chunks to the casserole.
• Put the lid on the casserole and transfer to a cool oven - Electricity: 140 deg.C, Fan oven: 120 deg.C, Gas 1 - for about one hour, or until the carrots and meat are tender. Check on the casserole at half time and if the liquid seems low, add some of the water the lentils were cooked in.
• The casserole should be quite rich when cooked, so serve with a plainly cooked green vegetable and rice or potatoes.

Steps:

• Chop the root vegetables into roughly bite-sized chunks. Roast the root vegetables together in the oven after coating lightly with about a teaspoon of the oil. Roast with the rosemary and some ground pepper for about 40 minutes at 350°F, or until at a good eating texture.
• While roasting, remove most of the outer paper peel on the garlic, coat lightly with a few drops of the oil, then wrap in foil and roast in the same oven at 350°F for about 30 minutes. Keep both this and the ingredients of the previous step warm.
• In a saute pan, place the rest of the oil and heat to moderate on your range top. Add the mushrooms and the ground venison, being sure to break up chunks and stir often. Add the sauce and seasonings including more ground pepper. You may add the bell pepper here, too; I just simply prefer it al dente.
• Simmer and stir until the mushrooms are cooked and the venison has just turned no longer pink. (You may add more Worcestershire sauce if the mixture is not moist enough enough.)
• Mix into a casserole dish with the roasted garlic - squeeze it so that the garlic pulp comes out, and discard the rest of the head. Mix in the root vegetables, and then the asparagus (broken into bite sized pieces), hearts of palm (sliced crossways) and the bell pepper (de-seeded and chopped) if you not have already added the latter.
• Immediately bake at 350°F for approximately ten minutes, and enjoy.
• If you've prepped this earlier for heating as a casserole later, yes, you'll need to cook this final stage longer.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente, about 8 to 10 minutes. Drain and reserve pasta.
• Meanwhile, place the olive oil into a skillet set over medium-high heat. Stir in the onion, and cook until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the venison and cook until crumbled and no longer pink, about 10 minutes. Drain, if necessary. Stir in the tomato sauce, basil, and garlic powder. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and turn off the heat.
• Assemble the casserole by spooning a layer of the venison sauce over the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the sauce with Parmesan cheese, and layer with cooked pasta. Top with the sauce, layer with pasta, and half of the Mozzarella. Repeat the layers to use the remaining ingredients, ending with a layer of Mozzarella cheese. Cover the dish with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove the foil cover and bake until the cheese topping is light gold, about 10 minutes more.