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Venison shoulders are the ultimate cut for slow cook crockpot recipes or braised for as a roast.
This venison pot pie recipe braises venison with mushrooms, herbs, and stout until tender. It’s topped off with a flaky pie crust and cooked until golden brown in a rich dark gravy. If you’re looking for another hearty comfort food dish, check out my venison shepherd’s pie. For even more dinner ideas, check out my
There are some dishes you make once in a while, and others you come back to every season without thinking twice. Venison Bourguignon is one of mine. Every fall, I set aside a few roasts or shanks, batch cook this recipe, and stock the freezer for deer season. It’s also a tradition at my family’s
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This isn’t your average venison pasta. It’s a summertime stunner with sweet corn, rich venison, and a creamy sauce that clings to every bite of rigatoni or orecchiette. The braised-then-crisped venison gives you the depth and texture of slow-cooked meat with the punch of seared flavor. Add fresh cherry tomatoes, grated Pecorino Romano, and a
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Slow cooker BBQ venison is the kind of meal that brings everyone to the table. Whether you’re feeding the family on a busy weeknight or piling meat onto buns for a backyard get-together, this recipe delivers. It’s easy to make, full of flavor, and turns lean cuts of venison into a classic comfort food. All
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Venison Soup is what I make when I’ve got a freezer full of tough cuts, like shanks, necks, shoulders, or trim. Three hours in the pot with bacon fat, red wine, and barley turns those cuts into the best comfort food bowl of the season. It’s one of the easiest and most satisfying wild game
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This venison snack stick recipe is a deliciously elevated way to make everyone’s favorite handheld meat treat. Looking for more of my venison recipes? Try smoked backstrap or my smoked venison shoulder. After hundreds of days in the field camping, hunting, and fishing, I’ve spent my fair share of money on various gas station meat
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Homemade venison sloppy joes (aka sloppy does) are weeknight comfort food at its best. This version trades the canned mystery sauce for real spices, red wine, and crushed tomatoes. So you get big flavor without a lot of work or losing the taste of the deer meat. You can make these sloppy joes with ground
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This crockpot venison roast is made with a sirloin tip, shoulder, or neck roast (preferbly 3 to 4 pounds) braised in white wine, soy sauce, hoisin, ginger, garlic, chile, and warm spices until fork-tender. I like to serve it either as-is with some of the cooking liquid or thickened into a sauce with a cornstarch
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This easy and delicious Venison Pozole recipe is the ultimate comfort food. When you think of authentic pozole, succulent fatty pork likely comes to mind. But in this recipe, I opt for cuts of venison that yield tender results when cooked low and slow. For cuts, necks, shoulders, shanks, and rib meat work well here.
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This smoked venison roast recipe uses a braise-first technique and is designed especially for shoulders, necks, and sirloin tips. This is my go-to method when I want a smoky, tender, pull-apart roast instead of medium-rare slices like my smoked venison ham. First, I brine the meat to build flavor, color, and juiciness. It’s then slowly braised until
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