Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat.
Season backstrap pieces with liquid smoke and Worcestershire sauce. Sprinkle with garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper. Wrap each piece of meat with a strip of bacon, and place on a metal skewer.
Cook the elk on the preheated grill until the bacon becomes slightly burnt, and the meat has cooked to medium-rare, 15 to 20 minutes.
Slice the backstrap in half but not all the way through creating a butterflied style strip.
Fill backstrap with uncooked sausage down the full length of backstrap.
Shake your favorite seasoning all over the inside and outside of backstrap.
Fold the backstrap together sandwhiching the sausage in between. Take strips of bacon and wrap around the outside of backstrap and use toothpicks to pin it together.
Using your favorite wood chips to smoke. Keep your smoker between 160'-180' and slow smoke for 5-6 hour until done.
or high heat. Charcoal is best, but if you must, use
Crack the egg, mix it up a bit, and add the elk. Stir together.
Cut the carrot, celery, onion, and garlic into large chunks. Put them all together in a food processor, and pulse until they are in small, even pieces. (Don't let them turn into mush!).
Add the cut vegetables to the meat, and the rosemary, pepper, oil, and ketchup. Mix it all up, using your hands is the best way to ensure an even mix.
Form into a loaf and put into a loaf pan.
Bake at 350 for approximately an hour.
On a challenge I converted one of my best known recipes for Mediterranean Roll-Ups when we had some rather gamey venison.
This is great with any type of meat that you may have available.
Prepare casings.
Grind meat and fat together through the coarse disk.
combine with remaining ingredients stuff into casings, twist off into 4\" links.
This is an assertive sausage and is best roasted or grilled.
Saute the mushrooms, onions, green pepper, garlic buds and celery and mix into the browned meat. Mix the tomato juice, tomatoes, pinto beans and kidney beans into meat mixture and add the cumin, chili powder, cayenne pepper, bay leaf and salt. Vary the seasonings to the taste you like. The above ingredients make a mild flavor. Simmer in large crock-pot for 6 hours or so.
ver medium heat. Add ground elk and cook for five minutes
edium-high heat. Add the elk strips and garlic; cook and
Cut elk steak in serving pieces.
Sprinkle lightly with flour.
Fry in hot butter, browning both sides.
Put in a baking pan.
Brown onions and mushrooms in same pan as the steak.
Add to steak in baking pan.
Combine remaining ingredients and pour over the steak.
Cover and bake at 350F degrees for 1 1/2 hours.
Cut backstrap into 1/4-inch thick
ith a little whipped cream (recipe follows) or cinnamon on top
Meanwhile, stir together the elk meat, Italian seasoning, salt, and
ablespoons vegetable oil. Add ground elk and cook throughly until the
nd margarine (butter).
Place elk steaks on broiler pan; cot
arinade is well mixed. Place elk steak in a large resealable
Marinate elk meat in 7-Up overnight to tenderize.
Cut elk meat in 2 x 2 1/2-inch strips.
Brown in butter or margarine in a heavy saucepan.
Add beer, basil, salt and pepper.
Simmer, covered, for 30 to 45 minutes or until meat is very tender.
Stir in gravy mix.
Cook for 5 to 7 minutes longer.
Serve with rice. Yields 4 servings.
Season the elk roast with the steak seasoning and sage, and place into a slow cooker along with the onion, garlic, cream of onion soup, and water. Cover, and cook on Low until the elk is easily shredded with a fork, 5 to 7 hours. Stir in the sour cream, and cook 30 minutes more. Shred the meat before serving.
Cook elk sausage in a heavy skillet and cook until browned. Cook pasta and set both aside.
Chop artichoke hearts, zucchini and mushrooms. Put everything in one bowl. Coat all vegetables generously with olive oil. Add garlic cloves, tarragon and season with salt and pepper. Place all cut vegetables on large piece of tinfoil.
Pre-heat the barbecue to high temperature. Cook vegetables on tinfoil for about 20 minutes.
Put pasta in a large bowl; add elk sausage and all BBQ'd vegetables. Mix well. Top with Parmesan Cheese and serve.
oth sides of the elk steaks.
Place elk steaks in a