Smoked venison sausage campfire cassoulet and Wild mushroom Orsotto
Great Wild food foraging weekend course with lots of mushrooms, lots of game and great fun!!
Prep: 45 mins
Cook: 40 mins
Nettle, Wild Mushroom, Beech
Ingredients
2 kg Venison
1kg pork fat
5 tblsp Rusk
1kg dried cannellini beans
100g butter
3 onions
5 cloves of garlic
4 tsp smoked paprika
200g wild mushrooms chopped
500g Pearl barley
100g Butter
100g Parmesan
Method
Cassoulet (serves 8): Make sausages from 2kg venison, 1kg pork fat, 5 tbsp rusk, salt and pepper. Mince, mix until sticky, fill casings. Cold smoke over beech 2 hours. Beans: soften 3 thinly sliced onions and 5 garlic cloves in 100g butter with 4 tsp smoked paprika until translucent. Add 1kg soaked cannellini beans and enough water to cover. Simmer 40 mins. Brown sausages and add to beans, cook together 20 mins. Wild mushroom Orsotto (serves 4): gently cook 1 chopped onion and 3 garlic cloves in olive oil. Add 200g chopped wild mushrooms, cook 5 mins. Add 500g pearl barley, coat in oil. Pour over stock to cover, cook covered on medium heat 30 mins. Stir in 100g butter and 100g parmesan, season.