Seared venison fillet with red cabbage + beetroot purée

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Wild Weed Pie: A Lifetime of Recipes

By Janni Kyritsis and Roberta Muir

Published 2006

  • About

I have also made this dish using kangaroo, wallaby and even hare fillets. Australian cuisine has been very slow to make use of indigenous produce; we’ve only been eating kangaroo meat in the last few years. In 1996 I unwittingly created quite a stir by putting possum on the menu at Bennelong. People were outraged that I would serve one of our native animals on a dinner plate. In fact, some of the Opera House staff circulated leaflets among themselves calling for a boycott of Bennelong ... I