Easy Way to Make Ground Venison Jerky
If you've got a freezer full of deer meat, you're in luck! Not only will this venison help your food budget stretch further, but ground venison recipes are delicious.
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For many families, fall and winter bring delicious fresh venison to their tables, and ground venison is especially versatile. If you don't like the gamey flavor, you can mix it with ground turkey or ground beef. Before you know it, you'll have a delicious pot of deer chili simmering.
Basically, anything you can make with ground beef or ground turkey, you can also make with ground venison.
Whether you're itching to make a big pot of deer chili, try a venison burger recipe, make venison sloppy joes, venison meatloaf, or you want to use your ground venison to create more unique ground deer meat recipes, deer meat for dinner can satisfy your needs.
From healthy ground venison recipes like a juicy deer burger to venison enchiladas, we promise there's something on this list that your family will love.
What Is Good Mixed with Ground Venison?
In terms of spices, you can use ground venison much as you would use ground beef. In other words, all types of herbs and spices can make ground venison even more delicious.
If you're concerned about a "gamey" taste, you can use a venison mixture of deer meat, ground turkey, ground pork, pork sausage, or ground beef. Mixing your ground deer meat with these other easily found meats will help you to stretch your supply of ground venison. Also, if you need a little bit of fat in your recipes, you can add any type of oil, beef tallow, or butter.
Is Ground Venison Healthy
Believe it or not, ground venison is higher in protein than any other type of red meat, including beef. Equally important, nutrition facts say that venison is lower in cholesterol and saturated fat than other red meats.
Cooking Ground Venison
However you enjoy cooking your ground beef or ground turkey also works well for cooking ground venison recipes. You can grill ground venison, fry it, bake it, or try cooking it with the sous vide method.
When you prepare ground venison recipes, be sure you use a meat thermometer. Ground venison is safe to eat when what you're cooking gets to an internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit.
How Does Ground Venison Taste?
In some ways, ground venison recipes taste very similar to any other ground meat recipe, including ground turkey and ground beef recipes. You may detect a slight "gamey" taste in ground venison recipes, but the herbs and spices you use will offset that. On the other hand, you may enjoy the gamey taste.
Are you ready for the best venison recipes? Let's explore this list of easy venison recipes.
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1. Venison Enchiladas
How about we start off this list of delicious ground venison recipes with a Mexican food recipe?
You can use venison meat to make all types of Mexican food, including burritos, tacos, nachos, and of course, enchiladas.
This venison recipe is loaded with spices, including chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and onion powder.
Other ingredients are tomato paste, tomato sauce, green bell pepper, garlic cloves, onion, canned beans, and pepper jack cheese.
Serve your venison meat enchiladas with all of the usual Mexican food fixings, including sour cream, shredded cheddar cheese, sliced avocado, cilantro, and jalapeno peppers.
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2. Hunter's Ground Venison Casserole
How would you like a venison casserole that's made with basic pantry ingredients? We have one for you!
This deer meat casserole is made using canned cream of mushroom soup, frozen peas (or canned peas), shredded cheddar cheese, onion, olive oil, black pepper, and frozen tater tots.
We won't be mad at you if you also put some of that cheddar cheese on top of the tater tots. Just be sure to tent your casserole dish with some foil in the oven so that the cheese doesn't scorch.
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3. Ground Venison Jerky
Who knew you could make jerky with ground meat? We're here to tell you that you can!
With this excellent recipe, you can use either ground beef or ground venison (or a combination) to make delicious venison jerky.
For a tasty low carb snack, you need ground venison, garlic powder, sea salt, black pepper, and liquid smoke.
This venison jerky will keep for up to seven days in the fridge or longer in the freezer.
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4. Oven-Baked Juicy Venison Burgers
There are tons of deer burger recipes out there, but this one that calls for venison burgers to be baked in the oven is super easy.
This venison burger recipe can be adapted to cook your venison patty in a skillet or on the grill, too.
For this recipe, you need ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder, garlic powder, brown sugar, black pepper, and sea salt.
You can also make a venison mixture with ground beef if you like it.
Deck your venison burgers out with all of the good stuff, including onions, sliced tomatoes, lettuce, and pickles.
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5. Grain-Free Venison Meatballs
Did you know that you can have juicy venison meatballs without using grains? That's right. All you need to do is make these yummy venison meatballs with almond flour instead of all-purpose flour.
Venison meatballs are great to have on their own, on a venison meatball sub sandwich, or with pasta dishes.
These venison meatballs also have ground pork in them, and that helps to cover up any gamey flavor.
The seasonings in this recipe for venison meatballs are dried oregano, sea salt, balsamic vinegar, garlic cloves, red onion, dried basil, dried thyme, black pepper, and dried tarragon.
Serve these meatballs with a mashed potato dish, with brown rice, or over pasta.
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6. Ground Venison Sausage with Garlic and Bay
To make venison sausage using this recipe, you need some ground pork and organ meat in addition to your ground venison.
This recipe calls for a whopping 20 bay leaves and 22 cloves of garlic, so it's super strong on flavor.
The other ingredients in this venison sausage are ground black pepper, celery seed, apple cider vinegar, and sea salt.
You can eat this venison sausage by itself, serve it with your eggs for breakfast, or use it in recipes for soup, casseroles, pasta, and more.
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7. Juicy and Moist Venison Burgers
What's the secret to the best venison burgers? We believe it's adding just enough cracker crumbs, beef tallow (or other fat), egg, and Worcestershire salt that the burger patties don't fall apart.
One of the best-kept secrets to delicious venison burgers is to use cracker crumbs. Another secret is to mix in some other sort of meat if you don't add beef tallow or pork fat.
This venison burger recipe calls for black pepper, smoked paprika, onion powder, and garlic powder.
You can cook these venison burger patties on the grill, in a heavy skillet on the stovetop, or in the oven.
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8. Ground Venison and Broccoli Stir-Fry
If you've got 20 minutes, some ground venison, and a bag of broccoli, you can whip up this super easy stir fry dish.
The recipe calls for ground beef, but of course, you can use any type of ground meat, including a mixture of venison and ground beef.
For the stir-fry sauce, you need brown sugar, soy sauce, minced garlic, sesame oil, cornstarch, ground ginger, and a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes.
Serve your ground venison stir fry dish on a bed of basmati rice, brown rice, or cauliflower rice. Serve with sliced green onions (scallions) and sesame seeds for garnish.
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9. Venison Chili Recipe
No list of ground venison recipes would be complete without a recipe for hearty venison chili.
When it comes to ground venison recipes, venison chili is famous. Best of all, you can cook venison chili in the slow cooker (Crock Pot) or Instant Pot for even more flavor.
This deer chili recipe calls for onion, olive oil (or deer tallow), chopped green peppers, garlic, chopped parsley, chili powder, sea salt, black pepper, diced tomatoes, tomato juice, and canned kidney beans.
Serve your venison chili with sour cream, onions, and plenty of shredded cheddar cheese, along with cornbread or crackers.
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10. Grilled Deer Meat (Venison) Burgers
There are a few different ways to cook venison burgers, but if you're making burgers at the deer camp, you're going to be grilling your venison burgers.
In this recipe, the flavor of the ground venison shines through and there is no effort to disguise the gamey flavor. The only seasoning you need is sea salt and onion powder.
Serve your grilled venison burgers on a buttery brioche bun and you'll have a burger that's good enough to serve to royalty.
Add a side of French fries or a baked potato and you have a hearty meal.
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11. Ground Venison Tacos
We love all of the Mexican spices when cooking with venison. Even the pickiest eater will just assume this is ground beef and never guess that they're eating deer meat.
To make these ground venison tacos, you need cumin, oregano, cinnamon, ancho chili powder, fresh lime juice agave nectar (or honey), tomato paste, onion, garlic cloves, and olive oil.
This recipe will work with any ground meat and any wild game.
We like using a heavy skillet like a cast iron pan to cook tacos.
Serve your tacos with sour cream, plenty of cheddar cheese, guacamole, salsa, and pico de gallo.
Do you want more easy venison recipes? Check out this video to learn how to make even more ground deer recipes, including a hobo dinner, stuffed cabbage, venison meatloaf, potato pie, and more.
Venison Burgers (+11 Easy Ground Venison Recipes)
These recipes are sure to please. So, gather your family and friends and enjoy. Let us know your thoughts!
- 2 pounds ground venison
- 1 large egg
- 10-12 saltine crackers
- 2 tsp. paprika
- 2 tsp. onion powder
- 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- Salt
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Mix the venison with all of the ingredients and form into balls.
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Flatten the balls into patties.
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Cook on the grill, in a cast-iron skillet, or in the oven.
Select your favorite recipe.
Organize all the required ingredients.
Enjoy the food.
Calories: 307 kcal
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