Meat and Poultry

Venison Medaillons "Fleckenstein"
from the restaurant "AUBERGE DU CHEVAL BLANC" in Lembach

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


1.8 kg of saddle of venison
200 g of mirepoix (carrot, celery, onion)
1 bouquet garni
3 dl of red wine
1 liter of brown stock

Ingredients for the sauce:
2 spoonfuls of red currant jelly
1 dl of rasberry vinegar
2 dl of white wine
2 shallots
1 bouquet of tarragon
3 spoonfuls of red fruit mustard*

Trimmings:
pear cooked in red wine
candied chestnuts
huckleberries
Alsatian noodles

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Trim the saddle of venison and remove bones. Brown the bones in very hot oil. After the bones have been colored add the mirepoix. Continue browning and drain off the excess fat. Deglaze with red wine and add the bouquet garni and several juniper-berries. Stir in the brown stock and some water. Let simmer for 3 to 4 hours. Strain this game stock and reserve. Lightly carmalize the red currant jelly and deglaze with the rasberry vinegar. Add the white wine, shallots, tarragon, and pepper. Let reduce. Pour the game stock into this reduced sauce and continue to cook until the desired consistency is reached. Whisk in the red fruit mustard, strain the sauce and correct the seaonings (adding salt, pepper and a trickle of cognac). Keep this sauce warm. Lightly flatten the venison medaillions and salt, pepper and flour them (optional). Sauté the medaillions in butter, 3 minutes on each side. Keep them warm. Drain the cooking fat, deglaze with cognac and add this liquid to the prepared sauce. Place the medaillions on the plate and garnish with the candied chestnuts, the pear in red wine and the huckleberries. Pour the sauce over the medaillions. Decorate with some chives or tarragon. Serve the Alsatian noodles on the side.

*Red fruit mustard Cook together the following: 100 g of rasberries, 100 g of blackcurrants, 100 g of red currants, 100 g of blackberries, 100 g of morello cherries and a red beet. Let cook until the fruits have been reduced and a puree achieved. Pass the puree through a sieve and mix in an amount of mustard equal to the amount of fruit puree.


Veal Hock with Beer
from the restaurant "Jean-Frederic EDEL" in Sélestat

Ingredients to serve 8 people:


1veal hock of 2.2 kg
2 tomatoes
2 large carrots
2 large onions
1 head of garlic (the above three ingredients in a mirepoix)
1/2 liter of beer
1/2 liter of red wine
5 to7 peppercorns
1 bayleaf
2 juniper-berries
1 branch of thyme

Brown the ve al hock until it has a golden color and then place in a cast iron stew-pan with the mirepoix of vegetables. Add 1/2 liter of beer and 1/2 liter of red wine. Add 5 to 7 peppercorns, a bayleaf, 2 juniper-berries and a branch of thyme. Keep just below boilling for 2 hours in the oven at 180°C. Serve with small shell-shaped pasta which are golden and crispy, having been simmered in butter.


Fillet of Alsatian Venison with Cinnamon
from the restaurant "ESTAMINET SCHLOEGEL" in Strasbourg

Ingredients to serve 4 people:


1 kg of venison fillets
1/4 liter of Bordeaux wine
1 spoonful of vinaigrette
1/8 liter of cream
1/4 liter of game stock or chicken juice
salt and pepper
cinnamon
ginger
1 shallot
1 teaspoon of red currant jelly

Roast the venison with high heat in a cast-iron or copper recipient. Put the venison to the side, degrease the recipient and half-cook the shallot with the 5 types of crushed peppercorns and ginger. Deglaze with the red wine, reduce and add the game stock or the chicken juice. Reduce and add the cream. Strain the sauce and add a teaspoon of red currant jelly, cinnamon and vinegar. Reheat the venison in the oven and cut into escalopes. Pour the sauce over the escalopes and serve with a choice of mushrooms, huckleberries, chestnuts, pears and Alsatian noodles.


Thick Milkfed Veal Chop Dressed
in Sea Salt and Garlic Served with Chanterelle Mushrooms and Gray Shallots
from the restaurant "JULIEN" in Strasbourg

Ingredients to serve 2-3 people:



1 large veal chop of about 750 g sea salt
black pepper
1 head of garlic (cloves separated and blanched)
2 chopped gray shallots
150 g of chanterelle mushrooms
butter
oil

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Generously salt and lightly pepper the veal chop and place in a thick pan with a little oil which is hot. Lightly brown the chop on both sides. Cook in the oven after placing a large piece of butter on the side and sprinkling the garlic cloves around. Let roast for 7 minutes on each side, basting regularly. Remove from the oven and let rest for 5 minutes so that the juices return to the meat. During this time, sauté the chanterelle mushrooms and the shallots in a bit of butter. Serve these on the side of the meat with mashed potatoes.


Stuffed Quail
from the restaurant "COTTAGE FLEURI" in Elsenheim

Ingredients to serve 4 people:



4 quails
200 g of chopped meat
200 g of fresh white mushrooms
1 onion
1 shallot
1 bouquet of parsley
100 g of duck mousse

Remove the bones from the quail. Prepare the stuffing by combining a mushroom duxelle, chopped meat, onion, shallot, parsley and duck mousse. Stuff the quails. Half-cook the quails in a pan with a little butter and oil. Bake them in the oven at 250°C for 10 minutes. Deglaze the pan juices with a little red wine, a touch of tomato concentrate, and two soup spoons of veal stock. Bind the sauce with butter. Pour the sauce over the quails and serve with spring vegetables.


"Wantzenau" Baby Chicken with Cider Vinegar
from the restaurant "ZIMMER" in La Wantzenau

Ingredients to serve 4 people:



4 chicks of 500 g each
1/4 liter of crème fraîche
cider vinegar
mustard
garden herbs
fine bread crumbs
1/4 liter of white wine
salt and pepper

Clean the chicks. Split along the back and cut the vertebra. Season with salt and pepper. Cook the chicks in the oven for 25 minutes at 180°C. Brush the chicks with the cider vinegar, mustard, garden herbs, salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the fine bread crumbs and finish the cooking. The chicks should be golden and crunchy. Discard the cooking fat , deglaze with the white wine and reduce. Add the crème fraîche and reduce until the desired consistency is acheived. Correct the seaonings. Serve with rice and a glass of riesling or pinot noir.


Chicken and Crayfish with Whipping Cream,
Served with a Barley Rissotto
from the restaurant "LA COUR D'ALSACE" in Obernai

Ingredients to serve 4 people:



1 farm-bred chicken to serve 4
400 g of crayfish
50 g of onions
50 g of leeks
50 g of celery
50 g of carrots
1/2 of a soup spoon of tomato concentrate
5 cl of cognac
whipping cream
salt and pepper
olive oil
white vinegar

Ingredients for the barley risotto:
15 cl of cream
200 g of barley
50 g of butter
50 g of onions
50 g of leeks
50 g of celery
50 g of carrots
chervil for decoration

Remove the crayfish tails from the bones and drain. Reserve the carcasses and the heads for the bisque. Sauté the carcasses and the heads in olive oil until they are lightly colored. Add a bit of finely chopped onion, leek, celery and carrot (50 g total). Deglaze and flambé with cognac. Add the tomato concentrate and cover with water. Cook for 1/2 hour then strain. Season with salt and pepper. Cut the chicken into 8 pieces, each leg and breast should be cut in two. With the remainder of the chicken carcass make a well-flavoured stock. Flour, season the chicken pieces with salt and pepper and panfry them in butter to lightly color them. Pour in the bisque and half of the chicken stock and let cook for 20 minutes. Add some cream and correct seasonings. While the chicken is cooking, prepare the barley risotto. Half-cook in butter the chopped onion as well as the carrots, leeks and celery which should be in1 mm cubes. Pour in the barley, add salt and pepper, and stir in the other half of the chicken stock. Continue adding water until the liquid doubles the volume of the barley. Cook slowly and covered for 25 minutes.