Slow cooked deer leg

Ingredients:
deer leg 2-3 kg (serves 6-10 people)
500g big onions
500g carrots
Bunch celery
2 bottles of red wine
Juniper berry
Laurel leaves
Salt, pepper

1st
Heat oil in a (roasting) pan. Then fry the deer leg at high heat from all sides. This important for the “roast flavor“. Also add quite a lot of salt and pepper. Then put it in a roaster.

2nd
Put olive oil in a pan and when the oil is hot add cut onions, a table spoon of sugar and salt & pepper. Fry onions until the are golden and put them onto of the roast.

3rd
Again heat olive oil in a pan and than add copped carrots and celery. After 5 minutes add one bottle of red wine juniper berry, laurel leaves, salt, pepper and/or the spices you like. When the wine is boiling, put the mixture on top of the roast.

 

4th
Then put the roast in the oven and let it sit there for about 4 hours at 120 degree celsius. You can also do 7h at about 80 degree

5th
15 min. before the roast is done, remove it from the oven put liquid (and vegetables) in a bowl and put the broast back into the oven. Put the oven on „grill-mode“ and set the heat on 200-250 degree for 10 min. in order to get a crunchy crust.

6th
The liquid from the roast you can use to make a sauce. The easiest way to make the sauce is to melt butter in a pot and add flour once the butter is melted. Add the roast-liquid when the butter-flower-mix is golden. Add salt/pepper if needed and let it boil for a minute. You should get a nice tasting thick sauce (if the sauce is too liquid you need more flour)

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