side sauce traditional recipe

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A nice holiday dish. Usually using deer (biche).

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Ingredients

  • 2-3 lb Venison Roast
  • 50 cl of Red Wine
  • 2 Shallots
  • 1-2 Lb of Potatoes
  • 2 Tbsp of Cognac
  • 10 cl of Oil
  • 50 gr of butter
  • A tad of flour (1 Tbsp)
  • One large zest of orange
  • 1 Clove (clou de girofle)
  • Salt and Pepper

Method

  1. The evening or morning before, marinate the roast with the wine, cognac, minced shallots, clove. Place in the fridge for about 12 hours
  2. Pre-heat oven at 190C
  3. Dry out the roast, set the marinade apart
  4. In a pan, reduce by about half the marinade over hight heat
  5. Peel and cut in thick slices the potatoes
  6. Take 25 gr of the butter and mix it with the flour
  7. In a frying pan, heat some oil (I usuall use clarfied butter here) then fry the potato slices until they are tender (about 20-25 mn)
  8. Rub the roast with the remaining butter, salt and pepper
  9. Place the roast in the oven-safe pan for about 20 minutes
  10. Take the roast out, and set aside, cover with alu foil
  11. On high heat, add the marinade to the oven pan, stir while bringing to a boil
  12. Bit by bits, incorporate the mixture of flour and butter, keep stirring until it thikens
  13. Season the sauce & Serve

Note: Goes very well with mash potatoes

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Traditional
Serve6
Preparation Time12 h + 40 mn
Cooking Time30 mn
Temperature
AuthorsPascal Crausaz
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