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Reindeer with chocolate sauce

Reindeer meat is practically available only in a couple of countries worldwide. Often you can only get it in cans or from special suppliers for very expensive money - but you can also use deer, which is very close to the original and also tastes very good and tender!

The recipe is enough for 4 people.


Ingredients for the meat

800 g reindeer meat
2 Tbsp butter  

Ingredients for the chocolate sauce

25g unsalted butter
1 red onion, finely chopped
1 small, freshly chopped chili pepper
6 large fresh mushrooms, quartered
25 0 ml beef stock
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
2 thyme sprigs
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper
50 g dark chocolate ( 70%)


Preparation of the meat

Let the pan on the stove get hot.

Melt the butter in the pan.

Cut the reindeer meat into pieces about the size of a medallion and fry briefly on all sides in the butter over high heat so that the meat is brown on the outside and still pink on the inside.

Preparation of the chocolate sauce

Heat the butter in the hot pan and briefly fry the chopped onion in the butter until translucent.
 
Add the chopped chili pepper and quartered mushrooms to the pan and fry briefly over medium heat for a few minutes.

Pour in the beef stock and balsamic vinegar, add the thyme leaves and bay leaf.

Bring the whole thing to the boil and let it simmer until the liquid has reduced by about half.

Pour the sauce through a sieve into a fresh pot and season with salt and pepper. Keep the pot warm over low heat.

Chop the chocolate into small pieces and stir into the sauce in small portions , stirring constantly .
  
If necessary, season again with salt and pepper and serve with the mushrooms on the fried reindeer meat.

Game with chocolate sauce and thyme puree

[Translated from here.]