Creamy venison stew
Ingredients
- 4 oz. 110 g butter, room-temperature
- 1 tsp 1 tsp paprika powder
- salt and ground black pepper
- 1¾ lbs 800 g venison or venison or chuck roast cut into 1" (2.5 cm) pieces
- ¼ cup 60 ml olive oil
- 1 (2¼ oz.) 1 (60 g) carrot, slicedcarrots, sliced
- 1 (4 oz.) 1 (110 g) yellow onion, choppedyellow onions, chopped
- 1 1 garlic clove, mincedgarlic cloves, minced
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp tamari soy sauce
- 1 cup 240 ml heavy whipping cream
- ½ cup 120 ml water
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp 1 tsp paprika powder
- 3 3 dried juniper berries
- 11⁄3 lbs 600 g celery root, peeled and cubed
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp butter
- salt and ground black pepper
Instructions
- Mix the butter and paprika powder thoroughly in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside for later.
- Heat half of the olive oil in a Dutch oven or a large cast-iron skillet with a thick bottom over medium-high heat.
- Fry the meat in batches until well seared. Season generously with salt and pepper. When the last batch of meat is golden brown, remove from the pan and put to the side for later.
- Add the carrots, onion, and garlic to the pan used for the meat, and add the remaining oil. Fry for a minute or two.
- Add the meat back into the pan together with tamari, whipping cream, water, and spices. Bring the stew to a boil.
- Put on the lid, lower to medium-low heat and let simmer for 1.5 hours. Stir every once in a while.
- Fry the celery root in butter in a separate skillet until golden. Add the celery root to the simmering stew when there are approximately 15-20 minutes of cooking time remaining.
- Serve the stew with the paprika butter.
Tip
Like most stews, this recipe works well in a slow-cooker. Follow the recipe as written, up until step 6; at that point, put everything in your slow cooker except the celery root and cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6-8 hours. Fry and add the celery root toward the end of the cooking time, as directed in the last step.
Recommended special equipment
Dutch oven
Yes, that would help, but you would need to replace it with something as 1 1/3 lb is quite a bit of bulk.
Just leave out the berries if you don't have or want them. They are not for recipe structure but are only for flavoring profile.
I saute flank steak using the saute setting on my instapot. Set meat aside, add the onion & carrot until tender. Return meat to pot, add remaining ingredients except cream & celeriac, throw in some thyme sprigs & bouillon. While cooking for 15 minutes on "stew" setting, fry the celeriac in ghee until golden. Quick release after the 15 minutes, add celeriac to instapot, cook for 5 minutes. Quick release 10 minutes after instapot is finished cooking, add the cream, remove thyme sprigs.
So delicious!
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing, Angela!