Smoky Moose Meat Skillet Dinner

Smoky Moose meat skillet dinner with wine sauce is delicious. This easy to make game recipe has lots of staying power. A high protein dinner that’s low in carbs.

Healthy ground Moose meat and bacon are simmered together with vegetables, black beans, cheese and seasonings in a unique wine sauce. Add smoked provolone cheese and asparagus spears on top for a delicious and easy Moose meat recipe.

This is an easy skillet recipe, perfect for a quick weeknight meal. Moose meat is a very lean and healthy meat to cook with.

Is Ground Moose Meat Good?

Ground moose meat is a very lean meat that has a stronger flavor. Ground moose meat is a healthy and low fat alternative to ground beef. This ground meat can be dressed up in many different dishes. The skillet dinner provides other flavors that pair well with the strong moose meat taste. Change up the spices and filling to fit your dietary and taste needs.

How do you Cook Ground Moose Meat?

Moose meat can be cooked just like ground beef, turkey, or chicken. Simply heat the skillet with some oil or butter in it. Place the ground moose meat in the skillet and cook until browned. Keep a close eye on the meat. Meats that are leaner will become tough quickly when overcooked. Cook the moose meat until it is evenly browned all over.

Adding an additional fat into the pot (like bacon grease) can help get the meat properly browned without burning it. Consider adding in another fat source during the browning process (sausage grease works great too). If you choose not to add an additional fat to the skillet, watch the meat very closely while browning it.

What does Ground Moose taste like?

Ground moose has a very strong flavor profile when compared to milder ground meat like beef. Ground moose can have a gamey flavor much like wild caught venison. The flavor for the ground moose is often described as sharp or strong. Cooking this meat with other strong and complimenting flavors can help tone down the gamey flavor.

What Spices go with Moose Meat?

Moose meat is an intensely flavored meat that does well when properly seasoned with herbs and spices. Here are a few of our favorite seasonings and spices that pair great with ground moose meat:

1. Garlic Powder
2. Onion Powder
3. Salt
4. Cracked Black Pepper
5. Brown Sugar
6. Dried Thyme
7. Oregano
8. Basil
9. Parsley
10. Smoked Paprika
11. Bay Leaves
12. Chili Powder
13. Montreal Steak Seasoning

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For Christmas my brother gave me Moose meat and a great story. He always has a good story. So I listened to him tell the dramatic tale of the enormous black Moose his hunting party bagged last Fall on the very last day of the hunt.

I learned from my daughter in law, Heather, how much a wine sauce can improve a skillet dinner. Her Wild Pheasant in mushrooms and wine sauce recipe is amazing if you need a pheasant recipe. I decided to use a wine sauce for this Moose meat  game recipe too. But Its Moose hamburger so it deserves a smoky cowboy flair. So this wine sauce is smoky sweet and intensely flavorful.

Ground meat skillet dinners should be easy. I’m not into complex recipes. At all. The wine sauce is SO simple you will not mind making it. And the outcome in SO worth it! 

Bacon is a good recipe partner to ground moose meat. Moose is EXTREMELY lean and high in protein. This makes it hard to brown without burning. Adding fat is necessary. And bacon tastes wonderful with it.

According to LawrenceBay.com  These are Moose meat health benefits: All Great reasons to eat Moose!

•  102 calories per 100 grams of meat
• moose meat delivers 22 grams of protein.
• ZERO carbohydrates.
• It offers your body niacin and riboflavin, helping it make red blood cells as well as metabolize foods.
• Moose meat is extremely low in saturated fat, with less than 0.5 grams per 100-gram serving. Because of this, moose is better than Beef  steak, especially for people who worry about their cholesterol.
• A typical serving of moose meat contains 59 mg of cholesterol, and adults, in general, shouldn’t have more than 300mg of cholesterol per day, so a couple of moose meat servings a day is a good thing.
• Moose meat is rich in minerals, including selenium, iron and zinc.”

So add that bacon. The healthy Moose meat makes up for it :). If you are eating keto or low carb this recipe can easily be adjusted for you. Use a sugar free sweetener or reduce the wine by 1/2 cup. 

This is one of those REALLY tough to photograph recipes. I tried several shots. You need to know it’s WAY better than you are seeing here.

Your kitchen will smell wonderful and the family will LOVE this recipe. But… it just looks like a regular old hamburger dinner with some asparagus on it. This recipe is so much more than that. Hamburger helper get behind me. This is a stellar sustaining dining experience.

Moose meat is surprisingly similar in flavor to grass fed beef or Bison. (One our readers, Kenali, suggested Bison for this recipe. Thank you Kenali!) I used seasonings I felt would go well with beef and they worked perfectly with Moose too. If you use grass fed beef in this recipe. Reduce the bacon by half. You won’t need so much fat to cook it.

The asparagus is from our garden. That’s how it wandered into this meal. And it needs to stay. Those fresh asparagus tips are steamed right on top of the skillet dinner. Their flavor is one more necessary part of this whole. We really enjoyed those whole steamed asparagus spears cooked right into the melting smoked provolone.

You could use a very thinly cut moose steak (Or thinly sliced cooked roast) in this recipe if you have no hamburger. But mind that your meat is tender. That’s the real advantage of the ground Moose meat. Ground meat is easy and quick.

Smoky Moose Meat Skillet Dinner with Wine Sauce Recipe:

If I ever get to make this meal again I will thicken the wine sauce. That’s why I gave you optional directions to do that. As you can see the sauce is very thin. It tasted divine but the whole meal would have looked more together if the sauce had a bit of cornstarch cooked into it. I’m out of cornstarch just now. I almost called this dinner a stew. But it really is a Smoky Moose Meat Skillet Dinner. That’s its name and I’m sticking to it.

Instructions:

• Set a large skillet on medium heat. Add the bacon.
• When bacon is about half done (stir it until the bacon fat begins to get transparent and liquid forms in the pan.) Add the ground moose burger, onion and garlic.
• Sprinkle the Montreal steak Seasoning on and stir until the moose meat is thoroughly broke apart.
• When the meat is cooked add the remaining vegetables and beans and stir. Cover and reduce heat to simmer.

For the wine sauce:

• Set a one quart pot on high heat and pour in the wine and worcestershire sauce.
• Boil the sauce until it is reduced by half (about 10 minutes). Add the brown sugar and butter and continue to boil until the sugar is dissolved.

• Pour the wine sauce into the skillet, Stir to combine.

IF YOU ARE THICKENING THE SAUCE: Increase the skillet heat to medium high. Whisk together the cornstarch and water and  pour it into the skillet stirring constantly at a boil. Continue to whisk until the sauce thickens and then reduce skillet heat to simmer.

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