Easy Venison Stir Fry With Sweet Potato Fries
Author: Eileen Clarke - Rifles and Recipes
Easy Venison Stir Fry with Sweet Potato Fries
Eileen Clarke
Rifles and Recipes
Need an easy, one pan meal with a sauce you can also use for wild game meats of all kinds? I’d start with this one. And feel free to switch out the fries for super-grain brown rice if you’d prefer, but cooked in an air fryer, those sweet potatoes are pretty healthy. They’re also a vibrant contrast to the spicy stir fry sauce. As for the meat, I’ve made this with venison as well as wild pig and would bet it would also work for pale-meated upland birds like pheasant and forest grouse.
Now, keep in mind that this is a pretty spicy sauce: my husband, John, thought it about as hot as he could tolerate, and I thought it just about the same and, though I was prepared to add a bit of sugar to my glass of water, the sweet potato fries saved me. (Just in case, ¼ teaspoon or a single restaurant packet of sugar in 8 ounces of water is a great cure for fiery mouth. Even better than milk.) And, of course, multiply the recipe as you need to.
Easy Venison or Wild Pig Stir Fry with Sweet Potato Fries
Serves 3-4
Ingredients
½ cup soy sauce
¼ cup Hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons honey
1 ½ to 2 teaspoons chili-garlic sauce
4 teaspoons grated ginger
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons oil, in all
¾ to 1 pound wild pig or venison, sliced thin or in small chunks
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
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 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. As the veggies brown, start your air fryer so it preheats. After about 5 minutes, start the sweet potatoes according to package directions. In our air fryer they take about 12-14 minutes at 360F.
3. Return the meat to the pan, and stir it into the veggies. Once the meat has warmed up again, add the sauce to the pan and stir it around to coat everything. Lower the heat to medium low, and let the sauce cook 5-7 minutes.
4. To serve: Grab some sweet potato fries with tongs (they’ll be very very hot, so don’t grab them by hand) and divide them among three to four bowls. Divide the stir fry among the bowls and serve.
*I like long slices of onion in a stir fry, so slice them from the root end to the head—what is known as pole to pole. Could also be called cutting with the grain. For other dishes, I’ll go across the grain—cutting down the center, fattest part of the onion.
Eileen has written a dozen wild game cookbooks, some of which are still available: check them out on her website https://www.riflesandrecipes.com/406-521-0273, Goose Bay Hand Blown Glass and Reading Leaves Bookstore.
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