Favorite Wild Game Meal

[Whitetail_kid]

Thought I'd start a new thread, what's everyone's all time favorite way to cook wild game?
I'll go first. My favorite wild game meal is probably poppers. Jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese, a piece of venison, wrapped in bacon and smoked. It's a toss up between that or chicken fried venison steak.

 

[belshawelk]

Lingcod.

Cooked anyway. I’ll thank God when I see him for it. He’ll nod and say “ I know”

 

[Dsnow9]

50 day dry aged elk steak cooked on a hot skillet with lots of butter and garlic.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Elk tacos, elk chili, elk sloppy joes.

All great.

Steaks in bacon grease, garlic, and butter finished slow in the oven are great too.

 

[VAspeedgoat]

Venison pastrami

Grilled dove wrapped in bacon with my special bbq sauce

Fried rabbit with gravy

 

[duckhunt]

Pretty even split between fried fish with fried morels and homemade Mac n cheese or seasoned deer roast in the crockpot with homemade mashed potatoes.

 

[Steiny77]

Bacon wrapped whitetail doe backstrap grilled rare to medium rare, then cross cut sliced thin with a little horseradish on the side.

 

[FairWeather]

Toss turkey thighs & legs with some taco seasoning and beer in the instant pot until they’re fall apart tender (20ish mins), then shred and make into tacos. I’ve done this with deer shank now too.

Not necessarily the “best” recipe, but it’s a good way to use parts that often get overlooked or discarded altogether.

 

[brymoore]

Elk backstrap is my favorite big game meal. Cook the strap whole in an oven until medium rare. Slice off red pieces of meat. Morel mushroom sauce, good red wine and asparagus side.

I need to go check the freezer now. I think we have a package or two of backstrap left.

 

[44hunter45]

My sister useD to make an Elk Wellington that was out of this world. I'm going to have to get her recipe.
But any dry aged elk steak barely browned with a blood red center and I'm happy.

 

[TOGIE]

burgers. we love our wild game hamburgers. doesn't matter the ungulate. we make more of these out of the things i shoot than anything else.

 

[MinnesotaHunter]

This is a really tough one, but schnitzel might the winner. I have made it with turkey and mountain lion. Both were excellent.

A couple of runners up would be wood duck poppers and I have only made it once so far, but whitetail tenderloin rouladin rubbed with blackening spice and stuffed with blue cheese and pickled jalepeno. It wasn’t the prettiest thing in the world, but it was tasty…

 

[TheBenHoyle]

Venison pastrami, venison schnitzel and venison wellington.

 

[Sask hunter]

Toss up between fish or back strap wrapped in bacon stuffed with Jalapeño cream cheese

 

[Jbotto]

Just made it the other night for my folks. Icelandic Venison with Blueberry sauce from Hank Shaw. Made with elk backstraps. Fairly easy recipe but not one I’d do on a week night. No pictures but it’s always great.

 

[Elkoholic]

For me its heart, grilled rare.

 

[BackofBeyond]

I've got three:

Elk roast smoked to 125 then seared in bacon fat on a cast iron pan. Thin slice across the grain.
Heart cut into fajita strips and pan fried in a little bit of butter.
Elk steak that's been generously dosed with S&P then gently kissed with a smokin' hot pan. No more than 60 seconds on each side. Some say "blue" I say it's how steak is supposed to be cooked. There's no greater sin in our household than overcooked meat.

 

[howl]

Wild turkey fingers with sawmill gravy to dip.

 

[shannerdrake]

Crappie filets but only if they are cooked outside in cast iron with morels.

Favorite red meat - largely driven by my mood but I really appreciate a reverse seared elk sirloin roast.

 

[Nick87]

Smoked backstrap of any kind, reverse seared sliced thin. Medium rare.