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Step 1
Cut the onion and root vegetables into large pieces. Mix with the garlic, wine, vinegar, juniper berries and thyme to make the marinade. Add the meat and refrigerate for about 5 hours.
Game
Red-wine-marinated game stew with mushrooms and blue cheese
Game stew with red-wine-marinated meat, root vegetables, woodland mushrooms and blue cheese. Original recipe from ICA.
YOU WILL NEED
Ingredients
- 700 g diced game meat, such as wild boar, moose, deer or roe deer
- ½ dl concentrated game stock
- Oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Marinade:
- 1 yellow onion
- 2 parsnips
- 2 carrots
- 2 garlic cloves
- 300 ml red wine
- 50 ml red wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp crushed juniper berries
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- Sauce:
- 300 g wild mushrooms
- 50 g blue cheese
- 300 ml whipping cream
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp blackcurrant jelly
- Cornstarch
FROM THE KITCHEN TO THE PLATE
Method
2
Step 2
Remove the meat and brown it lightly in a casserole. Add the marinade with the vegetables and the game stock.
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Step 3
Cover and simmer for about 1½ hours, or until the meat is tender.
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Step 4
Fry the mushrooms separately. Stir them into the stew together with the crumbled blue cheese, cream, soy sauce and jelly. Thicken with cornstarch if needed and adjust the seasoning.
A DELICIOUS FINISH
What should you serve with it?
Wine
Spiced red wine
It stands up to the red-wine marinade, mushrooms and blue cheese.
ALCOHOL-FREE OPTION
Dark grape juice or blackcurrant drink
A delicious alternative that lets the food take centre stage.
These drink pairings are suggestions – choose what suits you and your guests.