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Default Wild boar au civet. Recipe and pics

On 25 Gen, 21:19, Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
> Pandora wrote:
> > Pappardelle seasoned with wild boar sauce
> >http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/cimg0301j.jpg/

>
> > WILD BOAR AU CIVET

>
> > Category: Meat
> > Yield: 4 *servings *of 250

>
> > Ingredients for 4 persons.

>
> > 35 Oz. Wild boar
> > 70 fl oz. Red wine (good quality)
> > 1 onion
> > 3 celery stalks
> > 3 carrots
> > 5 juniper berries
> > 5 cloves
> > 5 sage leaves
> > 1 small branch rosemary
> > 3 bay leaves
> > 2 cloves of garlic
> > 0,35 oz. Plain chocolate
> > 1 Tbsp tomatoes concentrated
> > 1 tsp salt
> > ˝ tsp blackpepper
> > 5 Tbsp. Extra virgin olive oil
> > 1 tsp potato flour
> > Put wild boar in a stainless steel pan. Add wine and let it marinate
> > for one night (about 12 hours). The day after, drain meat and throw
> > away the wine. Cut wild boar in big pieces and let it brown in a fry
> > pan with oil and one garlic clove, for about 10 minutes. At this
> > point, transfer the meat in a pan and add: all the vegetables (cut in
> > big pieces), herbs, the other garlic clove, pepper and salt. Sprinkle
> > with the remaining wine, cover the pan and cook for about 2 hours and
> > a half at very moderate fire. When ready, drain meat from its sauce
> > and set aside. Mince all vegetable and one cup of sauce in a food
> > processor ; when it is ready, place again it in the pan, add potato
> > flour (previously dissolved in few hot water) and stir again for some
> > minutes. Add meat and reheat the whole preparation for five minutes
> > before serving. Use wild boar sauce to season “ pappardelle” or
> > polenta.

>
> Is the meat left in big chunks? (It looks like the recipe says to leave
> it in big chunks, and the photo looks like the meat is in big chunks,
> but I wanted to be sure.) I am familiar with a similar recipe
> (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/a...elle-with-wild...)
> which has the meat cut into half-inch (125mm) pieces, which I think of
> as medium-sized dice rather than big chunks.
>
> Bob


Bob, You have to cut it in big chunk (about 5-6 cm), otherwise is only
a ragů with minced meat! the recipe of the link it's similar but there
is few wine in there. You neeed 1 litre for first marinade and 1 for
the second cooking.
cheers
Pandora