VENISON OSSO BUCO AKA BRAISED VENISON SHANKS
INGREDIENTS:
2 to 4 venison shanks (cut in 2 to 3 inch lengths with end of bone
showing) tie meat to the bone with butchers twine
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (or substitute butter)
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 white or yellow onion, diced
2 celery stalks,1/2 inch diced cubes
2 medium carrots, 1/2 inch diced cubes
2 cups beef broth
1 cup dry sherry or port wine
2 cups diced tomatoes (optional)
1 tablespoon tomato paste (optional)
1 tablespoon
Wild Bill's Meat Rub
1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
1 teaspoon freshly ground black peppercorns
(Tellicherry)
2 to 3 sprigs of fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
2 to 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary or 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
1 bay leaf
Zest from one lemon
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Pat dry venison shanks. Tie
butchers twine around each shank. Sprinkle Wild Bill's Meat Rub on
shanks and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Coat shanks
with all-purpose flour. In a large
Dutch oven or enamel cast iron brazing dish over medium/high heat, add olive oil and sear shanks on all sides
until brown. Remove shanks from Dutch oven and place on a platter.
Deglaze bottom of Dutch oven with 1/4 cup of red wine. Add onions,
garlic, carrots, celery and sauté for 5 minutes. Add beef broth, balance
of red wine, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, black pepper, lemon
zest, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf mixing well and bring to a boil. Add
venison shanks to the Dutch oven or brazing dish, cover with lid, place in oven and
braise for 3 to 4 hours until tender. Remove butchers twine and
bay leaf before serving.
Serve with Risotto Alta Milanese (Saffron Risotto), Creamy Polenta or
in my case,
Creamed
Mashed Potatoes or
yellow rice.
YIELD: 6 servings
I will save the venison shanks in the future for this recipe.
Above recipe completed on 10-08-2022 and served with a side of yellow
rice.
The Osso Buco would fall off the bone. I was very impressed with
the texture and taste of the venison shanks. However, the veggies had too much of a
tomato acidic taste for me personally and my bride concurred as well!
It might have been better to layer the veggies and cut back on the diced
tomatoes or leave the diced tomatoes out totally in my humble opinion.
CLICK ON THE THUMBNAIL PIXS FOR A LARGER SCREEN VIEW:
HISTORY OF OSSO BUCO: Ossobuco or osso buco is Italian
for "bone with a hole" (osso "bone", buco "hole"), a reference to the
marrow hole at the centre of the cross-cut veal shank. In the
Milanese variant of the Lombard language, this dish's name is òss bus.
I have harvested many, many deer since the middle 1970s with rifle,
shotgun, revolver, muzzle loader, traditional archery equipment and
including the compound and cam bows and more recently the crossbow,
however I have either ground the venison shanks or simply feed them to
my dog and or discarded them with the deer carcass, however I plan to do
my version of this recipe this coming big game hunting season, our Lord
willing of course.
Above recipe, an adaptation of several recipes via the internet!
Web page created by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 02-04-2022 and updated
on 10-08-2022.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
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moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation will be
attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest
any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation, King
James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth
the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
