Grilled Wild Boar Tenderloin With Black Currant Sauce Food

WILD BOAR TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Take the wild boar tenderloin and slice down the entire loin at a 45 degree angle. Pull the loin away from you and continue to slice the loin at a 45 degree angle until the loin is one flat piece.
• Combine all of the above ingredients into a small stock pot and bring to a boil. Set aside.Once it has cooled, place the marinade into a mixing bowl and add the flat tenderloin. Marinate for a minimum of one hour to a maximum of two hours.
• In a skillet pan, render lap chung and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a sauce pan, sauté the shallots, ginger, garlic, prawns, chilies, shrimp paste, sugar and fish sauce until chilies are soft. Add tamarind water. Bring to a boil and set aside to cool. Once cooled (about 20 minutes), place in a food processor and puree until a smooth texture. Taste and season with salt and pepper to your liking.
• Remove the wild boar tenderloin from the marinade and spread the chili puree onto the boar. Sprinkle the wolfberries and lap chung evenly on the tenderloin. Place the fresh Thai basil leaves evenly on top. Roll the tenderloin back into its original shape, then roll the tenderloin in the caul fat. Sear on each side for 2 minutes in a skillet on medium-high heat and place in a 350 degree oven for 7-8 minutes.
• Place the leftover marinade in a small stick pot and begin to simmer. Reduce to 2/3 (about 8-10 minutes). This reduction will be used to sauce the wild boar tenderloin.

WOOD GRILLED BUFFALO TENDERLOIN WITH WILD MUSHROOMS AND PORT WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Place the onion, carrot, and celery with the canola oil in a medium saucepan and saute over high heat for 10 minutes or until golden brown and caramelized. Deglaze the pan with the port wine and red wine and cook until most of the wine has been absorbed. Add veal stock and simmer for 1 hour. Strain, return to the saucepan and add thyme and parsley, simmer for 5 minutes. Strain the thyme and parsley, return back to the pot and let simmer for about 30 minutes or until reduced to 1 1/2 cups. Season with salt and pepper to taste, strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Keep warm.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place shallots in an oven proof pan with the olive oil and cover with aluminum foil. Roast for 1 hour or until tender. Toss with thyme and parsley and season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
• Place the potatoes in a large saucepan and add enough cold water to cover. Salt the water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife. Drain and place on a cookie sheet. Place in the oven for 3 to 5 minutes, until excess moisture is evaporated. Rice the potatoes in a food mill or a ricer into a bowl. Add butter and mash with a potato masher.
• In a small saucepan, bring 1/2 cup half-and-half to a boil. Add to the potatoes, stirring gently until the desired consistency. Do not over mix the potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and set aside.
• Preheat a large saute pan on medium height heat. Add oil and saute mushroom for 2 to 3 minutes. Stirring often. Once mushrooms become tender add garlic. Saute for 1 minute. Set aside for platting. Mushrooms maybe sauteed a day in advance.
• Place an additional 1/2 cup of half-and-half in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Add blue cheese and blend with a hand held blender prior to serving.
• To assemble preheat the grill. Season buffalo with salt and pepper and place on the grill. Grill the steaks for 2 to 3 minutes on both sides for medium rare, or until preferred doneness. Remove steaks from grill and let rest. On a dinner plate place a small circle of mushrooms in the center of the plate. Place a quenelle of mashed potatoes in the center of the mushrooms, on top of the potatoes place the buffalo. Using a spoon, pour 1-ounce of port wine sauce around the mushrooms and a little on the buffalo. Blend the blue cheese cream until nice and frothy, and then spoon over buffalo.

PAN-ROASTED PORK TENDERLOIN WILD BOAR-STYLE WITH SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• In a deep rectangular or oval dish that can contain the meat and all the other ingredients except for the mushrooms, combine the pork tenderloin, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, onion, garlic, bay leaves, celery, rosemary, and red wine. Turn the meat over several times to coat it well, then cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Take it out occasionally whenever convenient to turn the pork over, basting it with its marinade.
• The following day, take the meat out of the refrigerator at least 1 hour before proceeding with the preparation of the dish. Turn it over and baste it when you take it out of the refrigerator, and once every half hour thereafter.
• Detach the mushroom caps from the stems, discarding the stems. Wash the caps quickly in running cold water without letting them soak. Pat them dry gently but thoroughly with a cloth towel, and cut them into thin slices.
• Lift the tenderloin out of the deep dish, pick out any bits of the vegetables from the marinade that may be sticking to it, and pat the meat dry with kitchen towels.
• In a skillet that can accommodate the two pieces of pork without overlapping, put in the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, and turn the heat to high. When the oil is hot enough to sizzle when you put in the meat, slip in both pieces. Turn the meat over to brown it evenly all around, then transfer it to a platter.
• Pour all the marinade from the deep dish into the skillet, turn the heat down to low, and cover the pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until all the vegetables are very soft or almost dissolved.
• While the marinade is cooking, put 1 tablespoon of butter in a medium skillet, turn the heat to medium, and add the sliced shiitake caps with some salt. Cook, turning the mushrooms over occasionally, until the liquid they shed evaporates completely and they have become very tender.
• When the vegetables of the marinade are very soft, add the cooked shiitake mushrooms, cooking them together for about a minute or two. Add both pieces of pork, sprinkling them with salt and several grindings of black pepper, and raise the heat to high. Cook the meat for 10 minutes on each side.
• Transfer the meat onto a cutting board, cut into slices 1/3-inch thick, and place slices on a very warm serving platter. Remove the bay leaves from the marinade -- and the garlic cloves, if you can find them -- then cover the meat with the cooked marinade and mushrooms and serve at once.
• Ahead-of-time note: When the overnight marinating of the meat is complete, it would be desirable to proceed at once through all the succeeding steps, but if you wish you can stop a few hours in advance right after the shiitake mushrooms and cooked-down marinade have been combined. Cook the meat, however, only when ready to serve, because it may dry out and become stringy if reheated.

ROASTED LEG OF WILD BOAR

Steps:

• 1. Rub the leg of wild boar all over with the salt and the pepper. Place it in a shallow dish, cover it loosely, and refrigerate it for 36 hours.
• 2. Bring the wine, the herbs and spices, and the vegetables to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan over medium high heat and cook for about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature. Strain, reserving the bay leaf, thyme, peppercorns and cloves, and discarding the vegetables.
• Whisk in the vinegar.
• 3. Quickly rinse the salt and pepper from the boar to remove most but not all of it. Pat meat dry and place it in a shallow dish. Pour the cooled marinade over it, return it to the refrigerator, loosely covered, and let it marinate for 36 hours, turning it at least four times.
• 4. Preheat the oven to 450°F.
• 5. Remove the leg of wild boar from the marinade and pat it dry. Make 20 tiny slits in it all over, and insert a clove into each slit. Transfer the boar to a baking dish, and pour one-fourth of the marinade over it. Roast in the center of the oven until the boar is very golden on the outside, and when you cut into it it is a very faint pink, but not in the least red, which will take about 2 hours. Check it occasionally to be sure the marinade hasn't completely evaporated, and pour the additional marinade over the roast, one-fourth at a time.
• 6. When the boar is roasted remove it from the oven, and set it on a platter in warm spot, loosely covered, to sit for at least 20 minutes so the juices have a chance to retreat back into the meat. To prepare the sauce, transfer the cooking juice and any browned bits from the bottom of the baking dish to a medium sized saucepan. Whisk in the chicken or veal stock and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce by about one-fourth, then stir in the red current jelly. Continue cooking and whisking until the sauce is smooth and satiny, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• 7. Before slicing the boar remove as many of the cloves as possible. Thinly slice the wild boar and arrange it on a platter. Garnish with flat-leaf parsley leaves. Either pour the sauce over the meat, or serve it on the side.
• *Leg of wild boar is available for mail order from:
• Broken Arrow Ranch
• P.O. Box 530
• Ingram, TX 78025
• (800) 962-4263

SAVORY BLACK CURRANT SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a medium size heavy saucepan over medium heat.
• Add the shallots and garlic and saute until transparent, about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Stir in the brandy, jelly, mustard and wine.
• Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Serve warm.

GRILLED WILD BOAR CHOPS

Steps:

• salt and pepper the chops.
• place chops in roomy, non-metal container so each chop lays flat.
• whisk all ingredients (sans chops) for marinade.
• pour marinade over chops.
• cover and refrigerate at least (4) hours, turning every hour or so.
• prepare grill/fire for direct heat on hi.
• sear chops on both side for 2 minutes.
• turn heat down or place chops on cooler part of grill for remaining cooking.
• Close lid and cook about (5) mins on each side for medium rare.
• let chops rest at room temp for (10) mins before serving.

GRILLED WILD BOAR TENDERLOIN WITH BLACK CURRANT SAUCE

Steps:

• TO FINISH 1. Put 4 ounces of black currant sauce into small sauce pan. 2. Put pan on highbeat and reduce for 30 seconds. Add 1 tablespoons of butter. 3. Pull Boar off grill and cut down into 4 pieces, about 1 inch thick. 4. Arrange on plate and add sauce. 5. Put a couple of cabbage micros on top of boar.