Campfire Hunting Meal: Stuffed Venison Backstrap Recipe

Ingredients

• •Elk or deer backstrap
• •Salt
• •Pepper
• •Olive oil
• •1 lb bacon
• •1 package mushrooms
• •1 tbsp chopped garlic
• •8 oz cream cheese
• •1 cup breadcrumbs

Equipment

• • Skillet
• • Grill
• • Butcher's twine
• • Bowl

Instructions

1. 1Chop bacon into half-inch pieces and chop mushrooms. Brown bacon in skillet with chopped mushrooms and garlic until fully cooked.
2. 2In a bowl, mix bacon, mushrooms, garlic, bread crumbs, and cream cheese. Stuff the mixture into the butterfly cut of the backstrap. Tie off with butcher’s twine and cover in olive oil.
3. 3Set on grill and cook on medium/high heat until your desired doneness. Medium rare is about 150 degrees.