level: easy

Preparation time: 3 hours

If there is something to appreciate deer meat, it is being cooked with a good extra virgin olive oil, a good red wine and a stir-fry of vegetables. The celery gives our deer meat a very rich flavor that will further enhance, if possible, the flavor of the deer meat.

Over low heat, as this type of meat has traditionally been cooked. There is no need to be in a hurry. The chup chup of the sauce, the little bubbles of that slow cooking peeking out of every corner of our casserole. The smell will fill our house first, and then the taste will fill our palate.

Gnocchi to serve this deer meat stew. A fantastic dish for Christmas lunch, New Year’s lunch or Epiphany lunch. A recipe that we can have prepared in advance, just to mix the meat and its sauce with the cooked gnocchi and cook gently so that the sauce thickens and the gnocchi absorb the aroma and flavor of the deer meat.

Ingredients

To prepare the gnocchi with deer meat recipe we will need the following ingredients:

500 gr of deer meat in cubes
500 gr of gnocchi
2 onions
1 leek
1 sprig of celery
2 carrots
Rosemary
Laurel
1 large glass of red wine
Salt
Ground pepper
Extra virgin olive oil
A large glass of water

Recipe preparation

Cut the deer meat into medium pieces.
Chop the onion, carrot, celery and leek.
Add the chopped vegetables to the casserole and add the extra virgin olive oil.
We let the sauce be made over low heat.
Add the deer meat. we redo.
Add the bay leaf and rosemary to the casserole
Season with salt and pepper and add the red wine and water.
Cover and cook for 3 hours. Stir occasionally.
We check that the meat is tender, rectify salt and ground pepper. We remove the bay leaf.
Cook the gnocchi in plenty of salted water.
Drain the gnocchi and mix them with the deer meat.
Cook over low heat until the sauce thickens and the gnocchi have absorbed the flavor of the deer meat.

Conclusion

The recipe of a lifetime that our grandmothers or mothers have cooked so many times, presented with some gnocchi to celebrate Christmas or to start the new year with a dish full of flavour, tradition and fresh air.

The gnocchi will give this dish a different texture, especially to the sauce, because it will thicken it in such a way that it will leave it honeyed and very rich.

A dish to take into account for these days of festivities and with the deer meat from Artemonte, quality is assured.