Venison Stir Fry with Sweet Potato Fries
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Eileen Clarke - Rifles and Recipes
Author: Rifles and Recipes |
Easy Venison Stir Fry with Sweet Potato Fries
Eileen Clarke - Rifles and Recipes
This is a pretty spicy sauce: about as hot as I could tolerate and, though I was prepared to add a bit of sugar to my water, the sweet potato fries saved me. (¼ teaspoon in 8 ounces of water cures the fiery mouth. Even better than dairy.)
As for the meat, I’ve made this with venison as well as wild pig, and would bet it would also work for pale upland birds like pheasant and Forest grouse. Finally, do you have an air fryer? If not, just follow the oven directions on the frozen fries bag and allow for a little more time.
Easy Venison or Wild Pig Stir Fry with Sweet Potato Fries
Serves 3-4 (Expand at will.)
Ingredients
½ cup soy sauce
¼ cup Hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons honey
1 ½ to 2 teaspoons chili-garlic sauce
4 teaspoons grated garlic*
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons neutral oil, in all, for cooking**
¾ to 1 pound wild pig or venison, sliced thin
1 yellow onion, sliced from pole to pole
2 stalks celery, chopped
20 pea pods, chopped in half
1 pound bag frozen sweet potato fries
* Easiest Way to Grate Ginger: First, don’t use the smallest grater side. It’s true that the smaller you grate/mince/shred it, the more flavor any spice has, but that’s more work. It’s a lot faster to use a larger grating surface.
Second, if you scrape away the woody skin on a long side, then you have a much longer surface to grate, and you get more grated stuff for each swipe.
**Neutral oil is a foodie term for those oils that don’t have an obvious flavor like canola, avocado, etc., rather than olive oil or toasted sesame oil which might alter the flavor of any dish.
Cooking
1. Combine the sauce ingredients: soy sauce, hoisin sauce, honey, chili garlic sauce, ginger, and toasted sesame oil. Leave the plain oil for the cooking. Stir well.
2. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the plain oil over medium-high heat and when the oil is hot, lightly brown the meat. Transfer the meat to a bowl and add the second tablespoon of oil. Add the sliced onion, celery and pea pods to the pan and sauté until the veggies start to brown lightly, about 5-7 minutes.
3. As the veggies brown, start your air fryer so it preheats. After about 5 minutes, start the sweet potatoes according to package directions.
Return the meat to the pan and stir it into the veggies. Once the meat has warmed up again, stir the sauce to the veggies and meat to coat everything. Lower the heat to medium-low, and let the sauce cook thicken, 5-7 minutes.
To serve: Grab some sweet potato fries with tongs (they’ll be very hot, so don’t grab them by hand) and spread them out among three to four bowls. Divide the stir fry among the bowls and serve.
Eileen Clarke has written a pyramid of game cookbooks, but this recipe is on her blog, at https://www.riflesandrecipes.com. If you like this one, check out the cookbooks. Sausage, jerky, soups and chilies, bullet-to-fork game care or a pheasant phanatic, there’s a book for that. And the post-Christmas sale starts January 1. 406-521-0273.
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