Name: Venison Dumpling Stew with Chorizo
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 600 g (1 lb 3 ½ oz) venison, minced (use haunch or leg, don’t use expensive fillet for mince); 2 tablespoons flour; ½ teaspoon cracked pepper; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into chunks; 2 onions, peeled and sliced; 12 cloves garlic, unpeeled; 60 ml (2 fl oz) olive oil; 500 ml (16 fl oz) light meat stock; 1 tablespoon dried oregano; 60 ml (2 fl oz) soy sauce; 600 g (1 lb 3 ½ oz) large potatoes, cut into wedges; 500 ml (16 fl oz) warm water for 30 minutes; 150 g (5 oz) cooking chorizo, cut into ½ cm (¼ in) slices

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A World in My Kitchen

By Peter Gordon

Published 2003

About

Farmed deer have become a recognisable animal in the New Zealand landscape; they are the descendants of deer that British settlers took to New Zealand to hunt for sport. However, these wild animals inevitably broke free and bred and bred and bred! So began the rapid destruction of our native bush. So, as with most things wild, man decided to tame them and began a culling and breeding process, resulting in numerous farms all over the country, where the meat is now marketed as Cervena. Howeve