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Deer Heart
Posted By: Stevarino
Deer Heart - 11/12/15 03:56 PM
Posted By: redchevy
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 04:00 PM
I have eaten it a few times, its not bad, but has an iron taste to it.
Unless im looking at the pic wrong you probably could have cut it differently to get a more tender bite. Favorite way is pan fried with gravy.
Posted By: Stevarino
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 04:02 PM
Yeah, I really had no idea what I was doing. Just cut out the what I thought was the good stuff.
Posted By: redchevy
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 04:12 PM
How he heart is laying in the top picture, slice horizontal, making rounds out of it trim and that will give you your best cross grain cut.
Posted By: bill oxner
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 04:23 PM
I'm out.
Posted By: Stevarino
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 04:26 PM
It taste just like your filets...
Posted By: BuckRage
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 05:01 PM
Its much better imo if you trim off the fat and then slice thinly and cook over mesquite charcoal. Some of the best meat imo. The cut is going to have a lot to do with flavor and texture.
I cook it with the liver and grind for boudin
I actually cooked one on sunday. cut the top off, butterflied, marinated in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, parsley and celery leaves. Grilled over very hot coals, rare. Damn fine.
From this cookbook. If you like wild game check it out
http://www.amazon.com/Afield-Chefs-Guide-Preparing-Cooking/dp/1599621142
Posted By: PMK
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 05:57 PM
no telling how much deer heart I have eaten. My mom used to slice thin, roll in seasoned flour, put in a skillet with a little bacon grease over low and put lid on. cook for 8-12 minutes, remove lid, flip (flour browned) and replace lid for another 8-12 minutes. similar to liver.
Hopefully I will get a chance to cook another this weekend. Will post pics if I do.
Posted By: BuckRage
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 06:01 PM
I've never had heart that tasted like liver the way I cook it. I don't like livers taste, smell or texture.
Posted By: Palehorse
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 06:40 PM
Deer heart makes really good fajitas. It's just not very big so it doesn't go far. I usually make scrapple from the heart and liver. My family makes a recipe almost just like this one..
http://www.food.com/recipe/deerhunters-scrapple-143284 We just use bacon fat instead of butter and use Tony Chachere's for seasoning.
slice it thinner, bread with crushed saltine crackers and flour and fry it up hot and fast
Posted By: Stevarino
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 07:48 PM
not saying it tasted bad by any means, just mentally weirded out.
Posted By: skinnerback
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 08:32 PM
I've never eaten it. I don't know why, just haven't.
Posted By: PMK
Re: Deer Heart - 11/12/15 09:25 PM
I've never had heart that tasted like liver the way I cook it. I don't like livers taste, smell or texture.
oops, I guess my post could be read like it tastes like liver ... but I meant to make it state my mom cooked it like she cooked liver (she cooked venison like that too, rolled in seasoned flour, a little grease over low temp, cover, cook until bottom browned, flip) ... tastes nothing like liver to me ... and I like them both!
I love heart....hate liver....
Posted By: djs303
Re: Deer Heart - 11/14/15 05:53 AM
I cook it by rolling in seasoned flower and place in pan with sautéed onions and some oil. When its browned good I pour in two cups of hot water with a tablespoon of flour mixed in to make a gravy and let it simmer for a while to make it tender. Serve over rice like beef tips. Pretty good eats!
Posted By: TxDuck24
Re: Deer Heart - 11/15/15 03:07 AM
We cut it thin and put it in beans or chili
Posted By: North2AK
Re: Deer Heart - 11/15/15 04:16 AM
Deer heart makes really good fajitas. It's just not very big so it doesn't go far. I usually make scrapple from the heart and liver. My family makes a recipe almost just like this one..
http://www.food.com/recipe/deerhunters-scrapple-143284 We just use bacon fat instead of butter and use Tony Chachere's for seasoning.
Big X2. Heart makes grew fajitas and even better scrapple. Though my scrapple recipe is a little more German and less cajun
Posted By: txshntr
Re: Deer Heart - 11/15/15 07:28 AM
I like it but don't eat it often. We used to cut it out, salt and pepper, light seasoning and wrap it in foil. Stick it under the coals for a bit and makes a great fire side snack.
I love heart....hate liver....
X2!!! tried the liver once.. was inspired from reading the lonesome dove series. Ended up feeding it to the cats living under the ranch house
We usually eat it every year in camp, partly because it's good and partly because it's cave man food:)
Posted By: Hogflyer
Re: Deer Heart - 11/20/15 01:04 PM
Lots of good recipes for all deer parts, knew of older fellow years ago, he made his sausage,
fixins with deer heart gizzards, nothing went to waste! some say is makes a good gravy stock,
if thats your deal.
Hearts, lungs make also great catfish bait, if properly kept from freezer burn later.....
Posted By: booger
Re: Deer Heart - 11/20/15 05:49 PM
Trim WELL!!! Anything you would not want to eat gets cut off, soak in milk or salted water for about an hour, season then a light coating of flout then pan sear.......Love some with eggs and biscuits after a successful hunt. Throw in a little cane syrupe and its a meal fit for a KING
Posted By: okiehuntr
Re: Deer Heart - 11/27/15 02:44 AM
I love it, trim all fat and vessels, sliced about 3/8 inch thick, pound the craX out of it, dip into beaten egg, then into italian bread crumbs and fry quick med/high heat.
To me it tastes something between liver and gizzard.
okiehuntr
Posted By: vanguard
Re: Deer Heart - 11/27/15 04:21 PM
i used to have a ritual at deer camp, first deer came in the heart, kidneys a little bit of liver an little bit of lung and a little bit of back strap got dredged in four then into a cast iron crock pot with a little oil over a flame and browned then add all my other stuff to end up a stew. one uncle thought i was crazy and he said he would eat a sandwich instead, when it was done he saw us devouring it and had to try it, he ended up wiping the pot clean with bread.
Posted By: colt45-90
Re: Deer Heart - 12/15/15 10:55 PM
heart, liver all good, lungs, kidneys???
Posted By: postoak
Re: Deer Heart - 12/15/15 11:01 PM
Heart tastes okay but has a rubbery texture I find unappealing. Deer liver is better, better than the calf liver my parents used to eat (not that I ever actually ate any -- but the smell!).
I had fried yak lungs in Tibet -- sort of looked like fried eggs. They weren't good enough to make me try deer lung.
If I can ever find the pancreas, I am going to try one someday.