Venison Sausages Braised In Red Wine Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F/Mark 5. Separate sausages. Melt butter in heavy based frying pan. Add shallot or onion and garlic and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add sausages and cook on all sides for 4-5 minutes. Pour red wine into pan, add bouquet of herbs, celery and allspice, and bring to the boil. Transfer pan contents to preheated oven dish and cook for 15-20 minutes or until sausages are cooked. Remove herbs and transfer sausages to a hot serving dish.
• Blend potato flour with tablespoon cold water and stir into oven dish with redcurrant jelly. Stir the sauce until it thickens. Season to taste, pour over sausages and sprinkle chopped parsley or chives on top. Serve with creamed potatoes.

Steps:

• In a large metal bowl, mix sugar, mustard seed, garlic, salt, and pepper with pork and venison. When ingredients are well mixed, grind the meat mixture in a meat grinder. Put the ground meat into a mechanical sausage stuffer. Be sure to push all of the air out of stuffer so there are no air pockets in the sausages. Fill pork casing with ground meat. When casing is filled entirely, find the center of the sausage and fold and pinch in 1/2 on a table. Pinch and twist into sausage links 2 at a time, pulling the "leg" of the sausage through the center each time a twist is made.
• Hang sausage in a smoke house or put sausage in a smoker for approximately 8 to 12 hours.

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.