This Romanian red wine dried venison loin recipe is one my favorite and easiest charcuterie preparations
Want to try more of my venison favorites? Try summer sausage, smoked backstrap, and my ground venison collection.
The art of charcuterie ranges in all levels of difficulty. While I like to experiment and make things the average person deems too hands on and time consuming, I also love simple recipes like this one.
Roughly all that you need is a venison loin, red wine, a few seasonings and some resting time in your refrigerator. In all, the meat takes between 8 to 13 days until it is ready to be consumed, but the physical labor needed is only about 20 minutes.
Cooks Notes:
- The red wine soaking time will depend on the size of the loin that you’re using. For elk loins, I recommend soaking them for 8 days. For whitetail loins, 3 to 5 days will suffice.
- You can slice thin and plate it like you would carpaccio.
- For simplicity it’s great with just toasted bread and some good mustard.
- One of my favorite ways to enjoy this is with goats cheese, toasted nuts and fresh ripe figs or blueberries drizzled with some good olive oil.
- Adding fresh cracked black pepper and flaked sea salt enhance the flavors quite a bit.
Looking for more venison recipes? These are a few of my favorites:
Venison Cube Steaks
Venison Breakfast Sausage
Venison Slow Cooker Collection
Lastly, if you try this Romanian red wine backstrap, be sure to leave a comment or tag me on Instagram! I thoroughly enjoy hearing feedback and checking out the photos of recipes that you’ve made.
ROMANIAN RED WINE DRIED VENISON LOIN
Equipment
- cheese cloth (as needed)
- butchers twine (as needed)
Ingredients
- 1 lb venison loin, silver-skin removed
- 2 cups dry red wine, (or as needed)
- 23 grams kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 bay leaf
- 5 grams curing salt (instacure #2)
Instructions
- Trim the venison loin of all silver-skin and place in a deep container.
- In a large bowl combine the remaining ingredients and stir until the salt has dissolved.
- Pour the mixture over the loin. Add more wine if needed to cover the meat entirely. Place a plate or another food safe non-porous item on top of the meat to keep it submerged. Cover the container with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 to 8 days as stated in the notes.
- Turn the loin over once per day during the marinating process.
- Remove the meat from the marinade and dry off with paper towels. Wrap the loin tightly with cheese cloth and secure each end with butchers twine. The tighter you can get the cheese cloth around the meat, the more uniform the shape will be after the hanging process.
- Hang in your refrigerator for 5 days with plenty of space around it to allow for air flow. If you have a cold basement that you don't have heat pumping into, you can hang it there as well. I would place a fan on low speed in front of it to ensure thorough drying. Placing a fan in your refrigerator will aid in drying as well.
- For serving, slice as thinly as possible. Store the meat in the refrigerator until needed.
NOTES
- Soak by loin size. A whitetail loin usually needs 3 to 5 days in the wine cure, while a larger elk loin can run closer to 8 days.
- Keep it fully submerged. Add more wine if needed, and use a plate or other weight so the loin stays under the curing liquid the whole time. Turn it once a day for a more even cure.
- Trim it down clean. Remove all silver skin before curing so it slices cleaner and dries more evenly.
- Wrap it tight to hang. After curing, dry it well, wrap it tightly in cheesecloth, and tie the ends securely. A tighter wrap gives you a more even final shape.
- Give it good airflow. Hang it in the refrigerator for 5 days with space around it, and use a fan on low if you can to help it dry more evenly.
- Slice it as thin as possible. Thin slices eat best and work well with mustard, toasted bread, goat cheese, nuts, figs, or blueberries. A little cracked black pepper and flaky sea salt on top help, too.
- Use it within a week. Keep it refrigerated and plan to eat it within about 1 week after it is finished.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation. Nutrition is per serving.
2 thoughts on “ROMANIAN RED WINE DRIED VENISON LOIN”
How long will this last
I like to consume it within a week.