Pan-Roasted Pork Tenderloin Wild Boar-Style with Shiitake Mushrooms

Filetto di Maiale alla Moda del Cinghiale con Funghi di Bosco

Preparation info
  • For

    6

    persons
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

  • About

What I like about game is the method by which it is prepared, the long marinade with wine and herbs that produces dense, sumptuous flavor. What I don’t particularly like is the undomesticated taste of game itself, especially the furred varieties.

Boar are plentiful in Italy, especially in Tuscany and Umbria, for whose vineyards they are something of a menace, feeding on the young plantings. Grape growers retaliate by turning the pests into boar sausages, boar prosciutto, and dishes