Main courses

Roebuck with sweet woodruff and spruce

Roebuck with sweet woodruff and spruce
Main courses Medium 30 min

Roebuck may only be hunted from 16 May to 15 July, making it a good time to prepare this dish.

Wild ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 fillets of roebuck
  • 50 g butter
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 sprig of Norway spruce
  • 5 sprigs of sweet woodruff
  • 1 handful of light green spruce needles for garnish

Instructions

  1. Fry the fillets in a blend of oil and butter in a warm pan at low heat together with a sprig of Norway spruce and sweet woodruff.
  2. Baste the meat with cooking fat during frying and finish by letting the meat rest for 5 minutes.
  3. Serve with common sorrel, cowslip, spruce needles and dead nettle as a sort of salad, optionally with a little cooking fat drizzled over.
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