Venison and chestnut casserole
Venison and chestnut casserole

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, venison and chestnut casserole. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook venison and chestnut casserole using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Venison and chestnut casserole:
  1. Take butter or other cooking fat
  2. Take venison, diced
  3. Get smoked lardons or chopped bacon
  4. Get red wine (I tend to use Côte de Rhône)
  5. Prepare port
  6. Take garlic, chopped
  7. Make ready red onions, in full slices
  8. Prepare carrots, diced
  9. Take celery, largish slices
  10. Make ready bay leaves
  11. Get thyme
  12. Take tomato purée
  13. Take chestnuts, pre-cooked
  14. Take fresh stock, venison stock ideal but can be whatever you have in fridge: foraging begins at home!
Instructions to make Venison and chestnut casserole:
  1. Prep the ingredients
  2. Preheat oven to Gas Mark 2/150C. My fan oven needs 140C
  3. Heat the butter in a large casserole (I use our old Le Creuset pan) and fry the lardons
  4. Using a slotted spoon, set the lardons aside and fry the diced venison, not too much at a time, and set aside with slotted spoon.
  5. Add the wine and bring to boil, stirring bottom of casserole to release any sediment. Add the port and bring back to boil and keep boiling for one minute.
  6. Add the garlic, onions, celery, carrots and mushrooms. Stir well.
  7. Add the bay leaves, thyme and tomato purée. Give it another quick stir.
  8. Add the stock. You need to just cover the other ingredients so you might need slightly more or less stock.
  9. Once simmering, cover and put in pre-heated oven.
  10. After 1 1/4 hours, remove from oven, stir gently and add the chestnuts.
  11. Return to oven for another hour.
  12. Check for liquidity and add a little more stock or water to prevent drying out. However, if it’s too liquid-y then simply take the lid off for the last 30 minutes or so.
  13. Remove from oven, stir gently, check that the venison is nice and tender.
  14. Taste and add any desired seasoning.
  15. Serve with desired accompaniments. I always have potatoes and choose from red cabbage, Brussels sprouts, parsnips, even more carrots. Any winter vegetables go well with this dish.

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