The Mess Hall - Cooking Your Game - Elk Stir Fry

[SapperDawg]

I have had the flu most of the last several days, so tonight was the first night we were able to break out something new. When I was butchering my elk, I took special care to cut up "stir fry meat" from sections of skirt and other cuts with long, loose grain. I ended up with ten, one-pound bags of stir fry meat, and tonight was the first test.

Now full disclosure: my wife is a Northern VA gal, and was not raised with an outdoorsman family. She is not against it, by any means, but just has not come to love - or be as comfortable with - the food as most of us. I am always concerned with making something that is too rare, too tough, too gamey or just not good for fear of turning her off wild game meals for good. I have been lucky thus far.

Tonight was a home run. Elk stir fry. This was loosely based on the recipe here: http://huntingchef.com/2012/02/15/ma...loin-stir-fry/



Each time I cook the elk I keep expecting it to be tough, but it never is. I only marinated these strips for about an hour prior to cooking, but they were extremely tender and tasted fine. My wife really liked the coating sauce, the change there was I didn't add the sherry called for.

Next time, I would use fresh veggies vice a freezer pack as they turned out to be a bit soft. Outside of that, another fine meal off the elk. If you butcher your own deer, you could most likely get strips akin to what I used from the ends of your top and bottom round roasts and portions of the sirloin.

[SpeckleDawg]

That looks great. I love stir fry, but have never tried with any wild game. Thanks for sharing.

[BeastMan]

That looks awesome. All these elk meat recipes make me want to go kill one (or send my dad to kill one)

[SapperDawg]

The Kentucky elk lotto opened on JAN 1...$10 a tag to enter, max of two tags. I am in for bull archery and firearm this year. MUCH closer than driving 20 hours to Colorado.

Its a completely random drawing, so you never know.....