Ingredients – roe deer
80 g roe deer back (Windsor Enterprise)
10 ml olive oil
Kampot salt to taste
thyme to taste
half a garlic clove without the core
Ingredients – roasted beetroot
50 g red beetroot
coarse sea Kampot salt
Ingredients – sweet and sour beetroot
20 g colored beetroot (red, pink, yellow)
10 ml white wine vinegar
10 g sugar
5 ml water
Ingredients – beetroot gel
10 ml fresh beetroot juice
1 ml balsamic vinegar
0.3 g Kampot salt
0.3 g gellan
0.3 g xanthan
Ingredients – parsnip purée
50 g parsnip
100 ml milk
20 g butter
Kampot salt to taste
thyme to taste
Ingredients – jus with Kampot freeze-dried pepper and cognac
200 g game bones
50 ml sunflower oil
50 g shallots
30 g carrot
5 g garlic
3 g thyme
3 × 50 ml red wine
100 g mushrooms
Kampot salt to taste
freeze-dried Kampot pepper to taste
cognac to taste
20 g butter
Procedure
1. Clean the roe deer back and wrap it tightly in cling film to form a cylinder. Then place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours to rest. Unwrap from the film and vacuum seal with 3 ml olive oil and thyme. Cook sous-vide for 20 minutes at 50 °C.
2. Remove from the bag and sear on a medium-hot pan with a little oil, butter, thyme, and garlic. While searing, baste the meat with foamed butter. Take out of the pan and let the meat rest for 5 minutes on a rack. Slice in half, brush with olive oil, and season with Kampot salt.
3. Prepare the roasted beetroot. Cover the beetroot completely with sea salt. Bake in the oven at 180 °C until soft. Then peel the beetroot, cut into thicker slices, use a cutter to cut out rounds, place them in a bowl, and pour olive oil over them.
4. Next is the sweet and sour beetroot. Mix water, sugar, vinegar, bring to a boil, and let cool. Cut the beetroot into 3 mm thin slices and use a cutter to cut out rounds. Divide the rounds by color, vacuum pack individually with the prepared brine, and let marinate.
5. For the beetroot gel, mix all the ingredients, bring them to a boil, and cook for 2 minutes. Strain, let cool, and blend into a smooth gel.
6. Cut the parsnip into rounds, put them into a pot, pour in milk, season with salt and thyme, and cook until soft. Strain and blend into a smooth puree, adding strained milk as needed. Finally, soften with butter and strain through a fine sieve.
7. The last step is the jus with pepper and cognac. Roast the game bones in the oven at 160 °C for about 45–60 minutes. In sunflower oil, sauté shallots, carrots, garlic, and thyme until browned. Deglaze three times with 50 ml red wine each time, reducing the wine each time. Then add the game bones and top up with game stock or cold water.
8. Bring to a boil, skim off the foam, reduce the heat, and simmer overnight. Strain through a fine sieve, add raw mushrooms cut into slices, and simmer for 20–30 minutes to fully clarify the sauce. Strain again through a fine sieve and soften with butter.
9. Heat the cognac, ignite it, and let the alcohol burn off. Toast the lyophilized Kampot pepper in a dry, hot pan, let cool, and crush in a mortar. Heat the sauce to 40 °C and season to taste with cognac and lyophilized pepper. Let macerate as needed. Strain and the sauce is ready to serve.
Enjoy your meal!
Author: Petr Kunc