Roast Boar With Juniper Berries Food

ROAST BOAR WITH JUNIPER BERRIES

Steps:

• Bring all the marinade ingredients to the boil, and simmer for 3 minutes. Leave to cool. Score the fat on the loin lightly across the top, and place the meat in a deep dish, covering with the marinade. Leave for 2 or 3 days, turning the meat twice a day. Remove the meat and wipe it dry. Place it in an oven-proof braising pan or heavy casserole dish over heat, and add the oil or lard. Brown the meat well and remove it from the pan. Bring the marinade to the boil in a second pan. Mix the fat and the flour into a roux in the pan, and strain over the hot marinade, stirring until smooth. Add enough warm stock to thin the mixture. Put back the meat, cover the pan and cook in a low oven (330 deg. F, 170 deg. C, gas 3) for 2 1/2 hours. Place meat in a serving dish. Transfer the sauce into a pan, skim off the fat and bring to the boil.

ROAST GOOSE WITH JUNIPER BERRY SAUCE AND CHESTNUT CUSTARD

Steps:

• Place goose in an oiled roasting pan. Season goose, inside and out with salt and pepper. Inside goose, place thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, half a head of garlic and juniper berries. Roast in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, depending on size of goose (14 minutes per pound). During that time, peel and cut the vegetables in cubes of 1 to 1 1/2 inches, and set aside. Baste the goose with its own fat every 10 minutes. 45 minutes before the goose is done, remove the excess fat from the pan and add the vegetables and half a head of garlic.
• Roast the bones in a 350 degree oven for 35 minutes. When half done, add the vegetables and roast together. In the last 5 minutes, add the tomato paste. Remove from the oven and transfer to pot and cover with water (or chicken stock if available). De-glaze, with red wine, the pan in which the bones had been roasted, reduce 50 percent and add to the stock. Crush the juniper berries on a cutting board with the bottom of a sauce pot, add to the stock with the thyme, rosemary, bay leaf and garlic, simmer 1 1/2 hours. Strain into a saucepan and reduce gravy to a fine chinois consistency (when it coats the back of a spoon). Finish by whisking in butter, add gin, salt and pepper and reserve in a hot bain marie (double boiler).
• Mix all the ingredients, starting with the cream and finishing with diced chestnuts. Butter 8 small dariol molds and divide the mixture between them. Cook in a bain marie (double boiler) in a preheated 325 degree oven for 20 minutes. Cool for a few minutes before un-molding onto the serving platter with the goose and the roast vegetables.

ROAST GOOSE WITH JUNIPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°F
• Remove the lumps of fat from the inside cavity and prick the goose all over with a fork.
• Rub salt thoroughly on the inside and outside of the goose, and wrap aluminum foil around the legs.
• Place in a roasting pan upside down and place pan in oven to roast for twenty five minutes.
• Turn the oven temperature down to 350°F Roast 1 hour, then remove the bird to pour out the fat that has accumulated in the pan and take the foil off the legs.
• Be very careful, because the fat is dangerously hot.
• He also suggests adding parboiled potatoes to the pan now.
• Turn the bird right side up and put it back in the oven for another 30 minutes to an hour.
• While the goose is in the oven, prepare the juniper sauce by cooking the onion in the olive oil on low heat about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the flour and cook a few more minutes.
• Now stir in the marsala, stock, and juniper berries.
• Season with salt, pepper, and mustard powder, and simmer gently 20 minutes.
• Then stir in the grain mustard and simmer 5 more minutes.
• When the thigh meat on the goose is pierced and the juices run clear, the bird is done.
• Let the meat rest about 10 minutes, then carve.
• Just before serving, stir redcurrant jam into sauce.

BRAISED PORK WITH BEER & JUNIPER BERRIES

Steps:

• Brown the roast on all sides in a dutch oven in the heated olive oil, as you turn the roast season with salt& pepper.
• Drain off any fat.
• Sprinkle the veggies with the flour. (what about the onions?).
• Add the veggies to the pot and the bay leaf.
• Add the beer.
• Bring to a boil.
• Add cloves, thyme& juniper berries.
• Cook covered for apprx 1 1/4 hours or until the meat is tender and apprx 160F in the center of the roast.
• Remove the roast from the pot.
• Skim off any fat.
• Puree the sauce (if the sauce is soupy reduce it by cooking longer until there is apprx 1 cup before you puree it).
• Slice the roast& serve with the onion sauce.

GERMAN POT ROAST WITH VERMOUTH AND JUNIPER.

Steps:

• Rub the large piece of meat with salt and pepper, then spread a thin layer of mustard (strong mustard will give a greater spicy flavor at the end) onto it. Set this spiced roast aside to soak in the flavors while you do the next steps.
• Roughly chop the onion. Wash the celery, and cut it into finger length slices. Slice the thick bacon into 1/4" strips.
• Heat a heavy stewing pot, add sunflower oil, and sear the roast on all sides. Remove the meat to a dish. Brown the onions, celery and bacon in the pot that you seared the meat inches Reduce heat so nothing burns.
• Pour the dry vermouth (I use Noilly Prat) into the stew pot. Add the bay leaf, the peppercorns and juniper berries, then lower the meat into the pot. Cover, and set the heat to its lowest level to slow cook this.
• After an hour, turn the meat. If the liquid reduced too much, add a cup of water. After another hour, the meat should be tender. If not, cook a while longer. You want it to be tender, but firm enough to slice.
• When ready, take the meat out, and wrap it in aluminum foil.
• Now, use a slotted spoon or small colander to strain the vegetables. Discard them. Now, strain the sauce through a fine sieve. Reduce this strained sauce in a saucepan, and reduce it until it has the consistency of a light gravy. Season with salt, pepper, and mustard, if desired.
• Slice the roast into thick serving pieces, and warm the slices in the sauce you have produced. Serve when warmed through. Serve with boiled or mashed potatoes and mushrooms, carrots and/or peas.