My first recipe cooking with elk.
My husband got an elk this season! Follow along here for recipes to make with elk meat!
Prep time
15 minutes
Cook time
40 minutes
Serves
6, with enough left for 3 lunches/dinner
What you need and what you do
Ingredients
Serves four, with enough sauce left for tomorrow’s lunch.
- 1 large pot
- 2 sweet potatoes,
- 1 large white onion
- 3 carrots
- 4 stocks of celery
- 2 tablespoons jarlic
- 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
- 2 pounds of elk sirloin steak
- 1 10oz can of pinto beans
- 1 10 oz can of corn
- 1 28oz can of fire roasted tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- 1 tablespoon of garlic powder
- salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon of New Mexican red chili
Instructions
About thirty minutes from the first onion to the last bowl.
- Dice all veggies
- Peel and cube sweet potatoes
- Cut elk steak into bite sized cubes
- Salt each step!
- Cook in batches – meat first with butter and rosemary – set aside
- Cook veg – set aside
- Cook tomato paste and red chili to toast – 1 minute
- Add everything back into the pot
- Bring to boil (B to B) – reduce and simmer 10 minutes
What to do later in the week
Quick lunch/dinner ideas
Lunch/Dinner with Leftovers
- Make a chili bowl – reheat chili and put on top of a bowl of big scoop Fritos
- Put on top of mac n’ cheese
- Make a baked potato or sweet potato and add chili melt cheese on top with a dollop of sour cream