Fresh Fried Venison Heart

[ChileRelleno]

Three fresh deer hearts.

One of the most often overlooked, and best, pieces of the deer.
The heart is a muscle, and properly cleaned/cooked it is absolutely delicious.
A shame that it is too often tossed with the gut pile.

I always save the heart and liver.



Carefully trim and clean the heart, remove the upper part consisting of blood vessels and atriums.
Then trim the tops/outsides of fats.
There are a lot of of tough/fiborous inter-connective tissues in the ventricles that need to be carefully trimmed out.
Then slice into portions for frying.



Money Shot

[Dominick]

I've eaten the lungs also.  Delicious.  Dominick

[ChileRelleno]

I've eaten the lungs also.  Delicious.  Dominick

I've never had lungs, but always eat the heart and liver from deer if in good shape.

From various animals I've tried a lot of organ meats.
Heart, liver, tongue, kidney, thymus, pancreas, stomach, brains and eyes.

[Dominick]

Chili, I forgot that I have also had tongue and stomach not the other stuff though.  Here is a funny link re: lungs.  http://italianosity.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-yuck-side-of-italian-food.html  Dominick

[Big Tim]

Looks good Chile..Never had lungs or eyeballs   But had and broke a few hearts  

BT

[Tightlines667]

Venison hearts are great.  I like mine fried in some butrer with garlic, and eaten on toast.  Kinda like i like ny breakfast blood sausage.

John

[David Hall]

I was going to say:
I've never been able to eat the heart from any of my deer, it's always blown to pieces!   
But figured I better just say: 
I have had the pleasure of eating deer heart.
And
I will say it was very good.
Great money shot, makes me hungry and I just ate.

[ChileRelleno]

Looks good Chile..Never had lungs or eyeballs  But had and broke a few hearts 

BT

Thanks

Venison hearts are great.  I like mine fried in some butrer with garlic, and eaten on toast.  Kinda like i like ny breakfast blood sausage.

John

Yes they are.
These were cast iron fried in butter, spiced with Sea salt, Smoked Paprika, garlic powder and dried cilantro.
I would love to be able to get a good blood sausage, can't find any here.
Perhaps I need to start making sausages?

I was going to say:
I've never been able to eat the heart from any of my deer, it's always blown to pieces!   
But figured I better just say: 
I have had the pleasure of eating deer heart.
And
I will say it was very good.
Great money shot, makes me hungry and I just ate.

LOL... As much as I like dropping a deer in it's tracks, a jellied heart makes me sad.
Thanks for the compliments.