Wild Boar Recipe – Cooking Wild Boar In Sour & Sweet Sauce

Cooking with a little change will not only add to your experience but you will also be able to experiment and try your hands at different recipes. Round the clock cooking shows on television, the internet and other publications offer us a great deal of recipes that we can try out with little or no alteration. Exotic meat such as that of the wild boar or green grass meat gives you ample space to cook the way you like. So just like me you can also invent new & tasty recipes.

But before dealing with something as different as wild boar meat you should take into account some of the crucial details. The fat in the meat of wild boar is low as compared to that of the domestic or production pig and for this reason the fat of wild boar is called soft fat while the fat of the domestic pig is known as hard fat. Because of this the meat of the wild boar has tighter grains and it’s a little darker in color. These characteristics of the wild boar meat do not mean that the meat itself would be tough or would turn out to be dry once cooked. In fact they indicate that wild boar meat should be cooked with care and at lower temperatures than those required for the meat of other animals. You can prepare the meat in a number of ways. You can panfry, grill, smoke, bake or roast it etc. Boar meat also makes for great sausages and meat jerky.

That day I made wild boar in sour and sweet sauce and trust me I got appreciation from across the table. Here is how I made it:

Wild Boar in sour and sweet Sauce
10 lbs. boneless boar meat, 3 cup wine vinegar,  2 pint red wine, 3 Tbs. bitter cocoa, 3 sprig thyme, 3 chopped onions, 5 Tbs. butter, 2 bay leaf, 2 chopped carrots, 8 cloves, 2 chopped stalk celery , 3 tsp. peperoncino, 2 Tbs. sugar, 3 Tbs. pine nuts, 4 oz. chopped dried prunes , 1 Tbs. raisins, 4 Tbs. candied orange peel, 1 Tbs Salt.

Prepare marinade Wild Boar Recipe by boiling vinegar with the peperoncino, cloves, carrot, onion, celery & bay leaf, thyme. Let it cool. Let boar fillet sit into marinade for 48 hours. 
Brown the remaining chopped onion in brown butter, sugar, orange peel, pine nuts, prunes, sugar and raisins. Stir, add for few minutes, let it cook for an hour, add salt, marinade. Cook until the sauce is dense and the meat tender.

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