Venison haunch bone
For the filling:
1 slice of bread (rye bread)
1 gingerbread bisquit
3 prunes
50 g bacon, mixed
1 tablespoon milk
pepper
salt
thyme
For the sauce:
Deer - bones from the legs
300 g roots carrots/swede/
1 tbsp tomato paste
500 ml wine, red
250 ml wild stock
some port wine
1 gingerbread bisquit
150 g sour cherries
Preparation
Separate the joint and cut the lower leg. The bone is hollowed out from the upper leg and also divided. Roast the bone pieces in the oven at 200-220 ° C until they have taken on a nice color. Meanwhile, the filling is prepared for the upper leg. Cut the bread, bacon and prunes into small pieces, grind the gingerbread and mix everything with the spices and milk to a solid mass. Put the filling in the bone cavity and tie the leg in shape using kitchen thread. coat the leg with the liquid butter.
The bones should now be of the correct color and are taken out of the oven and the leg placed in a suitable roaster in a hot oven. There it remains at this temperature for about 20-25 minutes. Then reduce the heat to 90 ° C and in the falling heat the leg is fried for 2.5 - 3 hours. During this time you have time to prepare the sauce and side dishes.
For the sauce,
Braise the roasted vegetables with a little oil, add the tomato paste, briefly cook, add the bones and deglaze with a little red wine. Reduce the liquid and deglaze with red wine until the red wine is almost completely reduced. Now add the game stock and simmer the sauce gently. The sauce is finished shortly before the end of the roasting time. To do this, remove the bones, partially puree the vegetables and put the sauce through a sieve. Use a ground gingerbread biscuit for binding and add the sour cherries to the sauce. Flavor with port wine and season with pepper and salt.
As a side dish we recommend everything that is often served with game, apple red cabbage or Brussels sprouts, dumplings, spaetzle.