Venison steak

The venison steak is a special piece of game that is ideal for the holidays. It is a muscle that is hardly used by the deer and therefore has a soft and fine structure. What goes perfectly with this sous vide venison steak is the game sauce. A slightly sweet sauce full of flavors such as: rosemary, juniper, bay leaf and gingerbread. The venison steak can be combined with many different components and flavors.

Ingredients:

• 4 venison steaks of 150 gr each
• 10 ml oil
• 20 g butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 onion
• 1 tsp pepper
• 100 ml port
• 150 ml red wine
• 1 sprig thyme
• 250 ml game stock or broth
• 2 slices of gingerbread
• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 bay leaf
• 40 g sugar
• 3 juniper berries

Preparation:

1. Get everything ready: Take a pan or sous vide container and fill it with warm water. Set the sous vide device to 52 °C and let the water heat up.
2. Season it: Season the venison steak with salt and pepper. Place the venison steak together with the oil in the sous vide bags or vacuum it with a vacuum machine.
3. To cook venison steak: Place the sous vide bag in the water bath and set the timer for 60 minutes. Once the timer has gone off, remove the venison steak from the sous vide bag and pat it dry with a towel.
4. Prepare game sauce: Caramelize the sugar in a saucepan with 20 ml of water. When the caramel has a nice brown color, deglaze it with balsamic vinegar. Chop the onion and garlic and add this immediately together with the thyme, bay leaf, juniper berry, stock, port and wine. Let the sauce reduce to 3/4. Add the finely chopped gingerbread to the sauce. This ensures that the sauce gets a thicker structure. Then sieve all the ingredients from the sauce and season with salt and pepper if necessary.
5. Make it golden brown: Heat a pan with oil and fry the sous vide venison steak until golden brown. Finally add a knob of butter.
6. Make it even tastier: Complete the dish with fried silver onions, carrot cream, blanched carrot, celeriac and the delicious game sauce.

You will need the following products to prepare this recipe:

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