Elk Tenderloin All Dressed Up
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 teaspoons crushed rosemary (20ml)
- 2 teaspoons salt (10ml)
- 4 teaspoons fresh ground pepper
- 4 teaspoons peppercorns (10ml)
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 ounce Grand Marnier
- 4 elk tenderloins, sold in Alberta
- 4 Spanish onions, small cut
- 2 minced fresh garlic cloves
- 1 red pepper, finely diced
- 6 pieces bacon
- 1 cup cooked jasmine rice
- 8 jumbo scallops (marinate in 1 oz of Grand Marnier the day before)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Rub.
- The day before, mix the rub ingredients together.
- Rub onto the Elk Tenderloin and cover.
- Place in your cooler fridge until the next day.
- Chef's call this the " Resting" time.
- Stuffing.
- First thing to cook it the bacon.
- Cook the bacon until it most of the fat is cooked out of it.
- Remove bacon from skillet.Do not over cook bacon as you are going to wrap the scallops later on.
- Drain off fat.
- Place the oil in a skillet and heat.
- Add the spanish onion,minced garlic and red pepper and saute for 5 minutes until slightly tender.
- Take a bowl and place the above ingredients (except the bacon).Mix together and place into the fridge to cool.
- Method:.
- Ok. Now.
- There are two ways you can do this.
- You can slice the Elk tenderlion length side so you end up with a sandwich.
- Or you can cut a centre piece circle in the middle of your Elk tenderloin to fill your filling.
- If you do it this way, we cut up the Elk meat into small pieces and add it to our stuffing.
- But we must pre-cook it in the skillet with a small amount of olive oil first.
- I like doing the Sandwich procedure.
- After you slice the Elk Tenderloin I mark it on the BBQ on all four sides quickly.
- Take off.
- Now.
- I quick do the same with the Scallops.
- I quickly mark cook the Scallops( a minute -Tops!
- ).
- Take off.
- Place your stuffing on one side of the tenderloin .Wrap two Scallops with the bacon and place it on top of your stuffing.
- On the other cut half of your tenderloin - place on some stuffing as well.
- (Not too much - you have eight peices to do all together) Place the sandwich tenderloin together and press.
- Now.
- Get some tin foil and wrap the outside edge of the sandwich - so the stuffing does not fall out.
- Cook Time: 8 minutes.
- Cook indoors or on your favourite BBQ.
- Enjoy!
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garlic, rosemary, salt, fresh ground pepper, peppercorns, olive oil, grand marnier, tenderloins, onions, fresh garlic, red pepper, bacon, jasmine rice, marinate, olive oil
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/elk-tenderloin-all-dressed-up-326402 (may not work)