Shika tataki (deer tataki with vegetables)

For ➍
600 g deer (or hind) fillet
200 g fine green beans
200 g pod peas
2 carrots
2 lemons juice
ginger 3 cm
½ red pepper
4 tbs sesame seeds
1 dl soy sauce
1 dl rice vinegar
1 tbs raw cane sugar
2 tbs olive oil
salt & pepper

Cut the ends of the beans and pod peas. Blanch  them (and eventually the carrots) for 3-6 m in a large pot of salted boiling water. Drain and scare into ice water so they retain their green color. Peel the carrots and cut into long pieces of 1 cm wide. Then cut them into thin strands with the peeler. (Raw, not when blanched).
Prepare the sauce. Peel, grate and squeeze the ginger. Mix the ginger with the lemon juice, soy sauce, rice vinegar and raw cane sugar.
Put a pan on the fire with olive oil and heat it.
Season the deer fillet with salt and pepper. Crust the meat 1 m on each side. Deglaze with the sauce, let cook for ± 4 m. Turn the meat regularly so that the flavour of the sauce is well absorbed. Bake the meat nice rosé (about 8 m for 400 g).  
Remove the meat from the pan, wrap in a sheet of aluminum foil and let rest for 5 m.
Let the sauce boil until slightly syrupy.
Sprinkle your work surface with sesame seeds. Roll the meat in it to get a crispy sesame crust. Cut the meat into very thin slices.
Divide the beans and pod peas pod on 4 plates. Arrange the thin slices of doe and cover again with the sauce. Finish with the rolled carrot slivers and bring to taste with finely chopped red pepper.
Serve with cooked glass noodles.

Deer with celeriac mash & endives

For ➍
600 g deer fillets
20 g butter
8 stalks witloof, cleaned
1 celeriac, cut into chunks
200 g potatoes, cut into chunks (or about the same weight as the cleaned celeriac.)
sauce chasseur

Prepare the sauce chasseur without the adding of gravy or wine. Set aside.
Cook the potatoes and celeriac for 20 m. When cooked, add 1 tbs of butter. Make a mash. Set aside.
Brown the deer fillets for 20 m in a stove-top pan with some butter on high fire. Reduce fire, cover the pan, and bake for 20-25 m. Cover and let rest for 15 m.
Add gravy and wine to the sauce. Set aside.
Meanwhile, braise the endives with a little butter for 5-10 m. Keep warm.
Reheat the mash just before serving.
Cut the meat. Serve the meat with the sauce, the mash and endives.

tip: cooking meat in the oven

Red meat:
beef, deer / doe, lamb, duck, stag

Preheat oven to 200° C, 20 m per 500 g.

White meat:

pork, veal, young boar

Preheat oven to 220° C, 20/25 m per 500 g.

Other meat:

poultry, chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant

Preheat oven to 240° C, 20 m per 500 g, reduce heat to 180° C, 20 more m per 500 g.

The meat is done when the liquid out of the thighs turns colourless.

All meat must rest for at least 20 m in aluminum foil before serving.

Don't put meat, straight from the refrigerator, in the oven. It will make the temperature drop.

Most meat benefits from basting, but opening the oven will affect cooking time.
Skewers:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Cook for 15-20 m, depending on the thickness of the chunks.

Read more tips. Read tip on grilling and braising meat in the oven. Read more meat and fowl recipes. Read more on roasting meat. Read general cooking times for meat, in & out of the oven.